Good vegan sausages are made with protein and calcium (not just vegetables), sold without palm oil and in sustainable packaging (recycle plastic at supermarket bag bins). Serve veggie sausages with mashed potato or in a hot dog bun with lettuce, tomatoes, gherkins and mustard.
Keep vegan meats away from pets, due to toxic ingredients like mushrooms, garlic and onion. Slice sausages lengthwise and lengthwise again for children and people with swallowing difficulties, to avoid risk of choking (do not feed to young children). If ordering online, keep ice gel packs away from pets and children.
Thanks Plants (Ireland) makes plant-based sausage that are sold in all major stores and health food shops. The range includes Apple Sage, Sundried Tomato Herb, Chipotle Salsa and The Frankfurter (for hot dogs). Made with seitan flour, cannellini beans, veggies and herbs.
Moving Mountains sausages are ideal with mash, and there is even a vegan sausage burger. The Brunch Burger Pattie are best served in a toasted English muffin, stuffed with fillings.
Or for the BBQ, just boil up some porkless hot dog sausages.
Vegan Sausages from Non-Vegan Companies
Many people have a problem with buying vegan items from companies that normally sell meat. But one reason why many people have a problem with vegans, is their ‘moral high ground’ by telling others how to eat. And some argue (quite rightly) that a vegan who lives on palm-oil-laden junk food in plastic packaging bought from supermarkets, can no more claim to be an ethical eater than someone who eats free-range meat and homegrown organic veggies, with no plastic packaging.
The truth is; if we want a world where most people eat plants, we have to be inclusive. And many big meat brands sell good quality plant meats that are superior in taste to some of the more ethical smaller brands, and have better wholesale and marketing contacts. Most meat-eaters don’t shop in small indie health shops (or farm shops). They shop in big supermarkets. So we have to go to them.
Chef Anne-Marie Bonneau says ‘We don’t need everyone doing zero waste perfectly. We need billions of people doing zero-waste imperfectly’. In other words, if someone slips up and has a bacon butty, judging them will likely send them back to where they were. But if he or she stumbles upon a good brand of vegan sausages and enjoys them – they will buy more. And the big companies that make them will start creating more items (as has happened with Richmond), and before long more profits will be coming from their plant-based foods, than meat.
This actually happened in Germany. Likemeat was founded by the vegan son of a meat entrepreneur. His father funded his ‘whim’. But the products were so popular, the brand is now the most popular plant-based meat in Germany, and likely Europe. And all funded by his meat-eating father!
