PETA’s hard-to-please panelists chowed down to pick the best veggie meat alternatives in North America. It wasn’t an easy decision, but our panel of astute judges—which included ardent carnivores, hard-core vegans, and everything in between—fired up the grill and tasted all the widely available faux franks, veggie burgers, chicken-free chicken patties, and cruelty-free cold sandwich deli slices to find the best.

After a bit of good-spirited biting, screaming, and hair-pulling, our judges finally reached their conclusions. We tallied their votes—which were based on taste, texture, appearance, aroma, and more—to come up with the winners of the coveted Golden Bun Awards. And now, the envelope, please ...

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