SC - Re: Not eating cute furry animals
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Apr 9 06:17:09 PDT 2001
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
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