Losing The Taste For Vegan Restaurants | Letters

Isobel Lewis’s article connected vegan restaurants suggests 2 reasons that they whitethorn beryllium closing: wide problems successful nan hospitality manufacture and a displacement successful taste values (The plant-based problem: why vegan restaurants are closing – aliases adding nutrient to nan menu, 2 September). Surely, it’s missing nan existent reason? I americium vegetarian, but I seldom eat successful vegetarian aliases vegan restaurants because I seldom dine retired alone.

People usually want to dine pinch their partner, aliases their friends. Quite a fewer group are vegan, but acold less couples are apt to some beryllium vegan. Even less friend groups are each vegan. To me, requesting that my non-vegetarian friends dine retired astatine a vegan edifice would beryllium arsenic selfish arsenic it would beryllium for them to petition I eat astatine a steak house. We mightiness occasionally agree on 1 aliases nan different conscionable to see how it goes, but astir of nan clip we’ll spell to a edifice that caters to each our diets. This is why vegan-only restaurants find the going tough.
Adam Williamson
Vancouver, Canada

I person not eaten nutrient for complete 40 years and person gradually moved towards a much plant-based diet. I for illustration my vegetables to look and sensation for illustration vegetables, not 3D-printed “vegan steak” (made of plant protein, pinch nan fibrous consciousness of nan existent thing) and disarmingly realistic “tofish” (tofu fish). Maybe nan demise of galore vegan restaurants intends that I am not alone.
Fr Colin Patey
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

Rendel Harris says that “if you really want to beryllium benignant to different species, spell vegan” (Letters, 31 August). This is unfair. I really want to beryllium benignant to different type and arsenic a consequence I person not knowingly eaten nan soma of mammals, birds aliases food for nan past 40 years. Yes, I could do more, but that is simply a reasonable start.

I besides usage plant-based “milk”, margarine etc, and frankincense limit my usage of dairy products. It does not person to beryllium each aliases nothing.
Joe Cocker
Leominster, Herefordshire