I Got Your Source Right Here

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Read up on the cuisine of other cultures, historical and modern.

 

There is no one source.

 

I lived in Japan in the early 1980s. During that time the American notion

of fast food was beginning to boom. Each generation of Japanese were

getting bigger, fatter, and less healthy. They'd gone from using meat as

more or less an occasional condiment to making it the main item in most

meals, same as USA pioneered.

 

I've got a cousin who is married to a chef, and his brother, also

coincidentally my cousin, who is married to a Mexican gal. Mexican

cuisine is largely vegetarian, based around beans. It's the Tex-Mex

varietal that is meat-heavy.

 

I lived in Europe, definitely not vegetarian friendly these days. The

historical cuisine of most was vegetarian dominant, though; only in recent

times has meat become readily available to the peasantry as well as to the

nobility. Despite this meat boom, though, there are many cuisines that

retain a mostly vegetarian stance, such as that of Northern Italy.

 

Right now most of India, China, and other Asian countries, along with most

countries in Africa, are vegetarian, and use meat sparingly if at all.

That comprises the majority of the world's population.

 

The experience in USA is incredibly skewed and warped compared to the rest

of the world.

 

 

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, at 09:19 AM,

wrote:

 

> Message: 20

> Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:35:05 -0700 (PDT)

> reptile grrl <reptilegoddess

> Re: Why I Bother I'll Never Know

>

> Can you give me a source for that?

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> The Stewarts <stews9 wrote:Most of the world is mostly or fully

> vegetarian. You must be a Yank.

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Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men

As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,

Sloughs, water rugs and demi-wolves, are clept

All by the name of dogs.

--Shakespeare, Macbeth III-1, 93-95