Fake Flesh - A guide to your supermarket's imitation meats

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Fake Flesh

A guide to your supermarket's imitation meats.

 

By Dahlia Lithwick

 

December 17, 2001, at 1:38 PM PT

 

As we wade forth into the holiday season, our hearts turn to sprawling family

dinners, and that means our hearts turn to meat. More precisely, our hearts turn

to great foaming pools of saturated fats, and for most Americans this presents a

monster health problem. Enter the burgeoning fake meat industry, which is more

than willing to load your table down with mock chickens, fake bacons, and bogus

beef. For anyone trying to cut back on his consumption of the real thing for

health, moral, or religious reasons, this season is as good a time as any to

explore the vegetarian (and often dairy-free, lactose-free, non-genetically

modified) alternatives.

 

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