If their food is so good why do they want it look and taste like ours?
If GOD didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?
If you are a vegitarian I don't think I can trust you!

That sure puts the mystery in mystery meat. I dont think soya based meat substitute would be a very good option for males. We get enough estrogen from the modern environment with out shoveling it past our tonsils.

"There are a number of reasons that some people choose not to eat meat - for instance, they may not want to support the slaughter of animals, they may wish to avoid the health risks associated with consuming too much animal protein, or perhaps they're not big fans of the environmental impact of raising livestock on a commercial scale."
Uhm, Preach Much?
I'd like my technology news liberal agenda-free, please!
[We're just providing some explanation as to why there's a demand for meat substitutes -Ed.]

Food Porn.......
i LOVE tins of textured vegetable protien.......
I love REAL meat.......
I LOVE pictures of FOOD.......

Amazing glibness and indifference to suffering in previous comments.
Oestrogen: no, sorry, it was actually found that normal consumption of phytoestrogen levels will produce only minimal physical changes in males. [1]
As for the 'if God doesn't want us to eat animals why did He make them out of meat?' - sorry, if you're serious, this is just beyond ridiculous (it's like: if God didn't want us to set people on fire, why did He make them flammable?), and if it isn't, it's such a tired old meat-eater chestnut. Anything to blind yourself to the fact that you're openly contributing to the mass torture and slaughter of non-human animals, ey?
Oh and 'liberalism' - yeah, as if not eating meat is a political decision.
It's amazing to what lengths people go to in order to mask the fact that they're simply being unethical, when there are evidently far better options available, like the increasingly viable artificial meat option as shown in the article.
[1]: http://www.clinsci.org/cs/100/cs1000613.htm

We will find it in all sorts of processed goods if it is any good.

Well,one day as the population continues to overtake resouces,meat will become a very expensive protein source. Animal meat is a very inefficiently produced food compared to vegetables(including grains and nuts etc). Deride it now,but these types of meat subsitutes may one day all you can afford.
And yes,I am a lacto-vegetarian,and no,I don't bother with any of those mock meat products.

The main reason for imitation meat is not for vegetarians... but to encourage non-vegetarians to adopt a diet with less to no meat, by providing a substitute.
All vegetarians I know has no preference for these; I on the other hand do, not because it tastes like meat, but some of them just taste good by itself. Prob also because I eat everything.
And btw Gragraposker, meat are already expensive, if not for government subsidies that directly and indirectly (i.e. feed grains) props up the meat & dairy industry which allow for lower prices.
So Annawyn, (using your faulty logic), by eating meat you are actually a socialist. oh am gee.

@Annawyn, those are reasons that vegetarians give - just ask one! My teenage daughter is against the slaughter of animals, so despite the fact that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool carnivore, she hasn't eaten meat since she was 10. Inconvenient? Very much, but then it would be wrong for me to impose my philosophy on her, wouldn't it?

Science fiction writers predicted this decades ago