Someone said fake meat substitutes aren't healthy. Why

I'm not a vegetarian. I'm doing Meatless Mondays, replacing my Mondays meals with meat-free alternatives once a week to cut down on the saturated fat we get in meat. I would happily eat beans, but my husband will eat it only if it could pass as meat, so he doesn't feel like he's missing out.

I use the fake Quorn brand ground beef, or mince, and the fake sausages. We eat normally the rest of the week, but he's such a sausage and bacon lover, I worried for his health.

I asked this in the Vegan & Vegitarian section and I just got a lot of emotional-based answers. I'm looking for science. I have a lot of respect for science people.

I was a vegetarian for two years, and ate them regularly. They didn't hurt me. The Morningstar and Boca brands were my favorites. I still get them from time to time.

The only things that might be bad in them are if you have soy allergies (because of the soy protein), the food dyes, and the flavoring. I can't imagine that you could consume enough of these, if they are questionable for your health, eating them once a week to harm you. In all likelihood it depends more on the brand than anything. If you eat a variety of them, and are sure to read the ingredients list on the side, then you should be OK.

The thing with most Vegans and vegetarians is that they are doing it for emotional reasons, not health or science. I was vegetarian because of health reasons, like you. The main complaint I heard was "If your going to eat fake meat why not just eat real meat? It is just as horrible!" This is a nonsense argument based in their emotional rejection of meat and not supported by any logic or science that I am aware of.

You should probably go Cannibal. It's a healthier substitute to animal meat. Just remember to eat the brain to gain powers.