I have a similar grip with "plant-based meats" - no, it's not meat and doesn't accurately mimic meat either; and if you want to go a layer deeper, meat is already plant-based due to the animals eating plants which then get concentrated down into dense nutrients and calories, and if talking about high fat red meat, then in the exact proportions our body and brain needs -which makes sense since we're animals too.
> "meat is already plant-based due to the animals eating plants which then get concentrated down into dense nutrients and calories"
Sure. But it's much more environmentally efficient in terms of water use, carbon emissions, etc if we can make sufficiently tasty and nutritious foods directly from plants rather than going through the inefficient animal step. Many people also have ethical objections to consuming animals.
Please watch the documentary Sacred Cow which will counter your "more environmentally efficient" claim - as it's taking into account the holistic view of the full system of environmental processes.
It would be ‘meat like’ but it doesn’t make much sense for the marketing. And meat also refers to the edible part of fruits or something consistent. I’d give it a pass as its not really deceiving advertising.
Less so with those, as your examples are primarily a single ingredient - though most almond milk available now is full of junk other than almomd. And in those cases they're not trying to mimic other products or claim it's anywhere near equivalent nutritional and other values/quality of non-factory farmed meat. Maybe I just need time for my brain to unravel my definition of meat but there's a mob that tries to falsely claim equivalence.
