I'd be really interested in meeting someone who was legitimately confused by the notion vegetarian meat.
How poor would someone's lateral thinking skills need to be that they can't manage to square "vegetarian meat" on the fly?
They'll be demanding that they take a separate section in the back of the supermarket next. Then, lobbying to make sure that a certain percentage of plants grown must go to animal agriculture for "tradition and heritage" or some such shite. I'm sure banning plant-based meat alternatives is somewhere on the wish list too.
Auf Wiedersehen Schnitzel: Meat consumption hits record low in Germany
More and more Germans are swapping meat products for plant-based proteins, according to Germany's Ministry for Agriculture, but not everyone is ready to give them up.
Today 10 per cent of Germans opt for plant-based foods compared to six per cent in 2018.
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00347-...
Public policies and vested interests preserve the animal farming status quo at the expense of animal product analogs
Best report I can find with data listed is from the Boston Consulting Group: https://web-assets.bcg.com/a0/28/4295860343c6a2a5b9f4e343611...
> How poor would someone's lateral thinking skills need to be that they can't manage to square "vegetarian meat" on the fly?
Of course you have to insult the victims so we don't show up, but I don't care if people think I'm a moron.
The botulism outbreak of the 1920 gave rise to the US's food and safety system. People called those who consumed those cans and died idiots too, because contaminated cans swell up, so imagine how "how poor would someone's lateral thinking skills need to be that they can't manage" to figure out that swollen cans are dangerous.
But that incident led to better food safety. Society advances with every man that gets called an idiot.
You can +1 me to your lonely list, and I don't care either.