If only meat cost as much as it should once you've factored in all the environmental damage from CAFOs and antibiotic resistance and corn subsidies and all that. Then maybe Americans would get their heads out of their collective behinds about MUST EAT MEAT THREE TIMES A DAY EVERY DAY.
But there's a whole social stigma behind not eating meat, too--only pansy fag girls eat vegetables. Which is another pile of bullshit to deal with. But if meat cost what it should, which it starts to when you get into the free range Niman Ranch type stuff, people would have to get over it right quick.
On the flip side, if there is no preparation for people who don't eat meat, you have very upset and hungry guests at your wedding. (My cousin's, me. I noted on my RSVP that vegetarian food would be needed. The chef made me pasta alfredo when the only meatless items were green beans, potatoes, and rolls.) Meat eaters can go without on occasion; it won't harm them. Vegetarians, otoh, will get sick.
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Date: 2013-05-29 02:49 pm (UTC)From:But there's a whole social stigma behind not eating meat, too--only pansy fag girls eat vegetables. Which is another pile of bullshit to deal with. But if meat cost what it should, which it starts to when you get into the free range Niman Ranch type stuff, people would have to get over it right quick.
On the flip side, if there is no preparation for people who don't eat meat, you have very upset and hungry guests at your wedding. (My cousin's, me. I noted on my RSVP that vegetarian food would be needed. The chef made me pasta alfredo when the only meatless items were green beans, potatoes, and rolls.) Meat eaters can go without on occasion; it won't harm them. Vegetarians, otoh, will get sick.