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What if I told you we already have beans..
What if I told you beans don't taste like pork ribs? I love beans, but these things are not substitutes for one another, and insisting they are isn't going to make anyone become vegan.
Beans are definitely a better substitute for rotting, tortured animal flesh.
I'm not talking about forward thinking rational people like us. I'm talking about selfish everypersons that want to barbeque on the weekends and watch football eating chicken wings. We need to give them sensible substitutes or they won't change.
BBQs are easy
Here's a tomato, mushroom, bell pepper, onion, 10 Cobb's of corn, and a stack of black bean burgers.
Done.
Look I know your heart is in the right place, but there are a lot of people that straight up won't touch vegan substitutes unless other options are unavailable. And even then they might just leave the barbeque or eat chips if there's no burgers/brats. You're not trying to convince me, you're trying to convince my uncle in Wisconsin.
I just gave you a pile of burgers.
Non vegans eat vegan food all the time. Jusy don't tell them the chips and the salsa are vegan.