SC - Re: Not eating cute furry animals

[Decker, Terry D.]

The meat heavy diet in the US probably has more to do with 1) meat being
relatively inexpensive and 2) the advent of a rail to market transportation
system in the 19th Century which made meat a common product.

The plegmatic burgher of earlier times owed his stout figure more to bread
and beer.

Bear

> One might view the current American meat-heavy diet as the result of 
> hundreds of years of cultural programming.  Meat=prosperity.  More 
> prosperity, more meat.  And didn't the sign of the prosperous 
> man used to be 
> a bay window gut?
> 
> Vicente