Review vegan "meat"

[Vegan Food]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/finally-fake-chick...

[Carolyn Bailey]

Interesting article, and I thought the author made some good points too. He obviously is misinformed on a number of issues, but I think he made some interesting points, like this one: 

"Really: Would I rather eat cruelly raised, polluting, unhealthful chicken, or a plant product that’s nutritionally similar or superior, good enough to fool me and requires no antibiotics, cutting off of heads or other nasty things? Isn’t it preferable, at least some of the time, to eat plant products mixed with water that have been put through a thingamajiggy that spews out meatlike stuff, instead of eating those same plant products put into a chicken that does its biomechanical thing for the six weeks of its miserable existence, only to have its throat cut in the service of yielding barely distinguishable meat?

Why, in other words, use the poor chicken as a machine to produce meat when you can use a machine to produce “meat” that seems like chicken?"