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Today, veggie burgers are engineered to be more like meat than could have been conceived in the basement health-food stores of the 1980s or the sanitariums of a century prior. Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
Cooking up a traditional Thanksgiving meal, with stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, vegetables and pumpkin pie is stressful enough. But when a child is vegan or vegetarian, it can ramp up the anxiety. GMVozd/Getty Images hide caption
Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods has taken a high-tech approach to creating a plant-based burger that smells and tastes like real meat. At the company's headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., chef Traci Des Jardins served the Impossible Burger (pictured uncooked) with vegan mayo, Dijon mustard, mashed avocado, caramelized onions, chopped cornichon, tomato and lettuce on a pretzel bun. Maggie Carson Jurow hide caption
Jack Bishop says it's the soy sauce in the Mushroom Bolognese that really makes it pop. Joe Keller/Courtesy of America's Test Kitchen hide caption
'Test Kitchen': How To Make Vegetarian Dishes Pop With A Little Umami
Suzy Amis Cameron, wife of director James Cameron, and gardener and educator Paul Hudak inspect seedlings in the MUSE School CA greenhouse in Calabasas, Calif. Amis Cameron, who founded the school with her sister, wants the school menu to be entirely plant-based by fall 2015. Eliza Barclay/NPR hide caption
Traditional fare at Bavarian Oktoberfest is heavy on meat, but that's changing as restaurants add more vegan and vegetarian options. Wolfworld/Flickr hide caption
This gang founded Zurich's Vegetarians' Home and Teetotaller Cafe in 1898. Ambrosius Hiltl bought the joint and changed the name in 1903. Courtesy Hiltl hide caption
PETA members hold placards on the street in Johannesburg. Themba Hadebe/AP hide caption
Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan has made the decision to go vegetarian. Cristian Baitg/iStockphoto.com hide caption
Career Suicide Or Lifesaver? Why A Professional Foodie Went Vegetarian
A vegan Thanksgiving feast, featuring Tofurky Shira Golding/Flickr hide caption
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The execution of Marie Antoinette. Artist unknown. Wikimedia hide caption
Chinese volleyball player Yunwen Ma during a game between China and Germany, at the Montreux Volley Masters women tournament, in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2011. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/EPA /Landov hide caption
Those who've tried it say fake chicken salad looks and tastes like the real thing. Yuki Noguchi/NPR hide caption
Betting Better Fake Chicken Meat Will Be As Good As The Real Thing
Meat substitutes like seitan made from wheat gluten are becoming more palatable. Richard Waller/iStockphoto.com hide caption