Consider the hypocrisy: flesh from cows, pigs, and chickens is seen as “real food” even though it only tastes like anything after seasoning, marinating, and cooking. Strip away the salt, fat, and spice, and you’re left with something nobody would eat raw.
Yet somehow tofu gets singled out as “flavourless.” The irony is that tofu is healthier, more sustainable, and doesn’t require killing someone to put it on your plate. In places like Okinawa, where tofu is eaten daily, people live some of the longest, healthiest lives on Earth.
But in the US, where animal protein is idolised, heart disease and obesity rates are through the roof. Hating tofu isn’t really about tofu. It’s about defending the mindset that animals are food, that eating their bodies is tradition, and that alternatives are a threat.
Tofu becomes a stand-in for everything the animal-exploiting industries fear: change. And that’s why tofu matters. Every time someone chooses it over flesh, they’re voting against a system built on exploitation, slaughter, and environmental collapse.
Every bite of tofu is a refusal to see animals as property and resources. Tofu doesn’t need defending on culinary grounds – it’s already a staple for billions of people worldwide.
What it needs is recognition for what it represents: a break from the supremacist mindset that insists animals must die for humans to eat well. So next time someone sneers that tofu is “disgusting,” remember: it’s not about taste.
It’s about power, culture, and whether we’re willing to reject the myth that exploitation is inevitable.
The Lone Star Tick is doing us all a favor!
Yes. Humans assume superiority over all other creatures despite just being another creature themselves. Eating decaying flesh of a fellow mammal unnecessarily is something an alien to the planet Earth might do.