Would you eat imitation food?

Same here, although we have cooperatives which work really well. Everyone who grows or produces something exclusively brings it to the co-op and takes a share of everyone else's stuff for a share of theirs. So everyone gets some tomatoes, some pork, some onions, some flour, etc. After shares, the public are free to buy the rest and the profit goes back into the co-op. Because it's small-ish, everyone does the best they can and doesn't care about profit. Small communities work well. I think you and I are on the same page here.