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CMV: If being vegan were so great and natural, vegan food wouldn’t include mock meat, milk, cheeses and the like.

I understand that being vegan for religious or health reasons is absolutely a thing. However, a common track for vegans is about environmentalism and how humans were made to be vegan/vegetarian. If that were true, why are we so preoccupied with creating vegan versions of products that non-vegans eat? It’s not to be inclusive, since most non-vegans wouldn’t enjoy e.g. a vegan cheese. Doesn’t eating vegan versions of non-vegan foods just perpetuate the idea that veganism is less natural than the alternative, harder to maintain and on the fringes of society?
gpt
The thing that mock animals products are designed to address is the cultural and mental element of meat eating. It's kind of like quitting smoking - you can just go cold turkey (in the vast majority of cases this never works) or you can incrementally achieve your goal by switching from cigarettes to vapes to nicotine patches and then finally quitting.