New vegan burgers are all about giving us more choice

IN his column [“Quite why a vegetarian would want to eat a ‘bloody’ burger beats me”, November 13], David Sexton has missed the point about the “bleeding” vegan burgers which have arrived in the UK.

It is not about making products for people who don’t eat animals. In fact, the new burgers are primarily targeted at meat eaters in a bid to convince them to eat less meat, hence why they are stocked in the aisles next to meat products. Surely this can only be a good thing?

Which part of an animal do burgers and sausages come from? They are simply names for human-created products which allow people to eat meat in a convenient way. Why shouldn’t us vegetarians use the same terms?

Nathan Rodgers

DAVID Sexton asks, “Why would you want to eat mock meat? Because you always liked eating meat but now you think it is wrong for your health, for the planet’s, for the animal…?”. Spot on! That’s three great reasons.

Soon we could have a straight choice between two cheap, healthy and delicious burgers, one made from meat, one plant-based. What kind of person would insist on eating the one that came from the environmentally costly exploitation of a suffering animal?

Josh Hulbert