• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m Latino and I’ve gone vegetarian, and to my father this is completely inconceivable. He’s used to having meat every meal, and is convinced that I’m going to fall ill if I don’t eat meat. I eat so many damn beans anyways that I’m good without it.

    This whole eating meat every day, thing, seems pretty new right? Like industrial revolution forward. Most people in history weren’t expecting meat all the time

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      6 months ago

      Only because they couldn’t afford it…lol

      Protein has always been the most desirable and most expensive part of any meal.

      The fact that Americans eat so much meat is a testament to wealth not simply bad eating behavior.