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Assume that the certification process is infallable and you are cooking it yourself (or a trusted friend is). If the label says it's the lab stuff, it is.
(OK, yeah, big suspension of disbelief here but, again, argument's sake...)
#2 and #4 are harder to control for...you're probably right about #4 (although a friend of mine went on a meat bender after being vegetarian, not vegan, for about a year with no ill effects -- he's probably the exception). And, yeah, if meat would taste foul to you (and many vegans I know say they can't even stand the smell of it, even though they loved it before, because they're repulsed by where it came from), you wouldn't want the fake stuff either.
#2 is interesting to me...PETA, I think, encourages the use of faux fur and leather. And the psycho woman who owns this vintage store near me sells it, too, even though she has a lot of anti-fur/leather and pro-vegan signeage in her store (psycho = she once shouted a co-worker of mine out of the store for wearing leather -- even though it was a fake-leather coat...purchased AT THAT STORE.). But what you say makes sense.
Thanks...
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