Blessèd Sith

What most people seem to forget is that you aren't tasting "meat". You are tasting the cooking, you are tasting the seasoning, and you are tasting the sauce (like you said, it tastes good cooked. What if you can get the same TASTE without the flesh? Isn't that what -- you yourself -- have said you want?). That's what REALLY got my dad when he became vegan. That it all tasted the same, because it all IS the same. He's getting the same sauces, the same foods, everything; just without the meat. All the same tastes are there. And if you have your meat bloody, well, you're tasting iron, which can be duplicated (as I do with the steak, but I won't give away how).

I was off red meat for 9 years before I became vegan (I still ate chicken and fish during that time), but just before I became vegan, I decided to "return to meat" for my career. And I was so digusted by what I was tasting, I think it traumatised me. Steak tastes like chewing on chainlink fences.