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galen · 3136 days ago · link · · parent · post: I tried the plant-based meat that Google wanted to buy and I never want to eat a 'real' hamburger again

I wanted to call it "vegetarian meat", but this kind raises an interesting point of what is meat, for a vegetarian or a vegan? Does the presence of heme - an important component of blood (you know it is because its name in Greek means "blood") - make it non-vegetarian?

I bet for many the issue would be where the heme is derived from.

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user-inactivated · 3135 days ago · link ·

A quick, non-educated search seems to indicate that it's only, or mostly, synthesized in a body. Makes sense, but it is a chemical, and all chemicals can be created outside, as well.