Is eating vegetarian 'pork' permissable?

Impossible, first came out with the impossible burger meat, which tasted much like meat, even though it is purely vegetarian.  Apparently, what gives the meat the smell and taste of real meat, is the molecule heme, which can be found in hemoglobin, which exists in living plants and animals - according to their website. 

Now they are coming up with a new product which is the vegetarian 'pork'.   

So in Singapore, the Muslims have asked advice from the Islamic authority if it's permissable to eat the vegetarian 'pork'.   The answer, simplified by me here, is - if the materials are truly plant based, it is technically permissable.  However, Muslims are advised to abstain from it. 

I would agree fully with the authorities.   

Why I believe we should abstain from it are two. 

1. It is to remove the possibilities of earning God's displeasure without you realising.   

 Because according to the concept that might be familiar to most Muslims, the reward of a deed  depends on your intention. (Hadith Sahih, Bukhari)

You and your friend might both be eating it, but one of you may be earning God's displeasure and the other is not.  The one that is not, if perhaps, having it, because they primarily assume it to be vegetable based product, regardless of what you call it.    While the other person, is eating it, because they want to know how it feels like to eat like the non-Muslims.    We want to avoid the possibility of being considered as 'one of them'

2. To avoid possibilities of confusion. 

If you become familiar with eating the 'impossible' pork,  you may more likely to be confused or not know when you're actually eating real pork in some ignorant situations.  Eg. if another company sells actual pork, and calls them impossible, and you assume them to be the 'vegetarian' one.     Whereas the person who in the first place, abstains from all those, will not fall into this possibility at all. 

Alhamdulillaah, there is an abundance of food variety in Singapore and around the world that are clearly halal, delicious and good too.    So, one should abstain from unnecessary confusions and imitating non-Muslims diet, as such. 

May God guide us all.