Vegan cheese burgers

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Can you believe this? I laughed out loud when I stumbled across them on the net. And then I watched a young lad (with longer hair at the front than the back) make them Jamie Oliver style in the kitchen along with an organic (but of course) filling of tomatoes, onions and avocado. He use a silly small knife and was in serious danger of cutting himself. If he had, I wondered, would he lick the wound for that would mean ingesting an animal product? A dilemma there I suspect.

And then there is organic bit. OK I understand the veggies even though I couldn't give a damn myself. Bring on GM crops I say. But the cheese and the burger? Maybe they are entirely organic ingredients but then a feat of chemical engineering is required to make them taste and feel like the real thing.

And then there is vitamin B12 which you only get in animal products or in fortified food. But it's never been properly synthesised so where does it come from as an additive? You may say bacteria and you may well be right. But what are bacteria? They breed, they move and wriggle around. Sounds very animal like to me.

No matter, it all seems harmless and as my Yorkshire Physics master used to say, ' Thar's nowt so queer as folk.'