• XiELEd@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    Why are Americans so obsessed with meat and plant-based substitutes? I remember some Americanised kids in 5th grade bullying me for eating whole vegetables, which in hindsight was bizarre.

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      12 days ago

      Don’t assume everyone online is from the USA. An that kid was simply an asshole that had parents that didn’t teach to eat vegetable.

      Meat is a major part of the diet of a huge amount of humans, and has been for a long time by now. To assume only the USA consumes large quantities of meat it is simply absurd. I can speak for my own country having cold cuts has a huge part of its food culture.

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        12 days ago

        Well America ≠ USA, but I do admit that I initially had North Americans in mind.

        I was talking about a different type of meat obsession, not culture. It’s the one where a population can’t imagine eating whole vegetables at all.

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          That’s not really a thing. They are everywhere in the world. Many people just don’t eat veggies from pure disdain to simply not thinking about them. This is more of a parenting and/or education problem.