The Vegetarian Space Socialists Who Are Always Right

[Relayer1]

The more exercise meat muscles get, the longer and slower the cooking needs to be in order to make it tender.

As a rule of thumb.

 

[Oddish]

Or it needs to be tenderized, and there are tools for doing that.

 

[Ragitsu]

If they don't eat animal products from actual animals, then they're ethical vegans. Cultured meat is vegan.

Putting aside the fact that the reproductions made possible by twenty-fourth century matter-replication technology are a far cry from the Frankenstein approximations of today, we can clearly see members of Starfleet - from TOS until the end of VOY - willingly consuming foodstuffs which originated from living animals (Kirk even partakes in a pepperoni pizza in The Voyage Home).

Spoiler

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Vegetarian Space Socialists" would be a great name for a rock band.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Funny video. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tuskin38]

Replicators give them no need for actual animal products (which actually makes them all vegan).

We've seen and heard mention of people eating non-replicated meat/animal products.
For example Picard keeps fresh caviar on the ship.