SC - Re: not eating cute furry animals
Vincent Cuenca
bootkiller at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 9 20:18:48 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.
>
This feeds into my earlier point, equating meat with prosperity. We
streamlined production and transportation to meet the demand for the
product. As the price drops and availability increases, a greater range of
consumers begin buying the product, so production steps up. More gets
produced, and consumption steps up as well. It becomes circular; "Crunch
all you want; we'll make more." We wanted more meat, so we came up with
ways to produce large amounts relatively cheaply. But why did we want all
this meat in the first place?
I think it's due to this deep-seated cultural programming. "Wealthy people
eat meat. If I eat meat, I must be wealthy."
Vicente
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