If it were possible to eat a vegetarian meat substitute that was indistinguishable from real meat, would you prefer to eat that over real meat?

Yes! I don't eat red meat anyway, so if you made a vegetarian substitute look like a hot dog, I would definitely eat it but I wouldn't eat the bun... because I don't eat refined white flour products either!

But if you took a sirloin steak and somehow added artificial food coloring and made it somehow look like a cob of corn on my plate, I could probably be tricked into believing it was really a cob of corn. Just sayin'...