Nowadays, many girls in Europe and America can solve a meal with a salad without meat. Why are healthy dietetics and vegetarianism that eat little or no meat so popular in the West? Because of advocating environmental protection?

Not eating meat is fooled by the propaganda of "healthy diet" by big food companies, because the profit of traditional diet is not as high as that of these refined foods.

Raw steak needs refrigeration at most, but the fully mechanized production, processing, disinfection and transportation of salad leaves are much more complicated. Then there are more than vegetables in the salad. Just grab a box of fast food salad in a Canadian supermarket, and there are at least a dozen ingredients in it. The more complicated the diet, the more consumers will tend to buy finished products, and the more profitable food companies will be.

The energy level of plant food in the food chain is one level lower than that of meat, and the supply is roughly ten times higher than that of meat. It is equivalent to selling the grass originally fed to cattle directly to consumers. If consumers swing between an 8-Canadian steak and a 6-Canadian salad at noon, food companies will make a big profit.

Besides, you underestimate the vegetable salad.

In Canada, shredded vegetables or tender leaf salads are usually served as side dishes for dinner. Vinegar sauce is used as seasoning, which is equivalent to refreshing side dishes in Chinese food. This salad is usually accompanied by a large piece of fat-scented fried beef or chicken with skin, and the side dishes generally include fried potatoes and rice, which is enough for China to digest all day.

Besides green leaves, the ingredients in that kind of salad for fast food also include a lot of hidden garlic-flavored croutons, boiled quinoa or cereal, nuts, shredded cheese, fried chicken or hamburger diced meat, etc., and then poured with a large cup of sauce based on full-fat yogurt or mayonnaise, which is rich in nutrition and scary in calories. Moreover, this kind of fast food salad is a huge box at first, and the hottest set meal in Subway is fried chicken breast lettuce salad by weight.

The most cheat people thing is that this fast-food salad with a lot of vegetables digests very quickly. Generally, people are hungry before dinner, and they have to chew some snacks in class.

In fact, there are many kinds of vegetarianism cults, and there are even so-called vegetarianism, that is, not eating beef and mutton but eating chicken. They also discuss whether pork is pink or not. . .

Real vegetable vegetarians don't eat meat, but they eat many substitutes. For example, although they eat a big box of vegan salad with spinach and yogurt sauce, they immediately have two big bananas, two handfuls of nuts or an avocado after dinner.

Moreover, these healthy believers eat according to milligrams every day, and all kinds of software will help them calculate how much nutrition they have eaten and what to add (if they eat too much, they will be ignored). For example, if the protein intake is insufficient, you will drink a large cup of almond milk with two tablespoons of protein powder at night, or two big tonics.

The most interesting thing is that the best-selling vegetarian nutritional supplement is made from chicken, but the instructions are vague and the words are particularly small.

The white girl who eats the most salad in our class is like this. . .

Round and healthy, right? Shine all over your face.

Veggie/vegan has gradually become a trend, which is inseparable from the propaganda wave of big companies.

The cost of salad itself is very low, and it doesn't require any cooking skills, so it doesn't cost much to actually make a salad, especially in large factories with mass production. These factories use assembly-line machines to cut vegetables. However ..... a pack of cabbage can be easily sold for $2. Label it Organic and make it $5.

Wow, this money is really easy to earn.

Vegetarianism has been packaged as a "healthy choice" and a "middle-class style", which has become a fashion, and this is very crucial, because it will make more and more young men and women jump into the fast-food salad with huge profits. (Note that it is an instant salad, and the veggie option in a normal restaurant is a good choice.) Vegetarianism was first considered as a way to lose weight and maintain health, but in recent years, it has become a way of life. Some veggie choose vegetarian food not for any specific purpose, but because it is popular and popular in their circle of friends; Vegetarianism has its own vitality, a relatively stable niche. As the previous answer said, Madang L, WendY'S subway and so on all kinds of monsters put out salads-the production is simple, except Subway, which are all ready-made boxed, and it is not healthy at all (I work in Madang L myself, and the salad leaves are all yellow).

This is a consumption trap. Is vegetarianism really absolutely healthy? Not really. After all, people can't live without protein and fat. Why do Buddhists in East Asia fast the most? Because only China, Japan and South Korea have a stable source of soybeans in protein.

Now this product has become a complete market chain. stakeholder involves all aspects of society, and even roadside hot dog stalls must prepare vegetarian option. This market is unshakable.

Just as the Internet almost eliminated the paper media, vegetarianism is just a sign, behind which stands a new economic system and an era belonging to large groups.

It is still inseparable from the marketing method brought by capitalism to manipulate people and even fools. It is the consumer's business to be fooled, and the capitalist can just lie down and count the money while munching on the steak.

The study of vegetarianism should be carried out from many aspects such as economics, psychology and sociology, rather than simply "taking it for granted". So behavioral economics is the best interdisciplinary subject.

Depends on the reason:

1 for environmental protection

If we just look at food, vegan diet does have less impact on the environment than meat. But what about the environmental impact of the treatment process? To quote Hannah Pu Nana, "Raw steak needs refrigeration at most, but the fully mechanized production, processing, disinfection and transportation of salad leaves are much more complicated." Counting the processing process, it is probably unclear which one has the greatest impact on the environment. However, I personally think that vegetarian food with less processing (for example, buying a lettuce and cutting it yourself instead of buying a bagged salad) is more environmentally friendly.

For the sake of health

This doesn't make any sense. According to the Dietary Guidelines for China Residents, adults should eat120-200g meat, 300-500g vegetables, 200-250g fruits and 250-400g cereals and potatoes every day. A vegan diet can easily lead to protein and iron deficiency. More deadly, vitamin B 12 cannot be obtained from plant products.

If eating too much meat can cause various diseases, it is a landslide fallacy to say that vegetarianism is healthy. Moderate and excessive are completely different things.

3 for morality

That doesn't make sense. According to the current definition of pain, plants will also feel pain (will plants hurt? ）。 The underlying logic that "eating animals is immoral and eating plants is fine" is that "the pain of plants is too different from that of us humans, so we can't understand this kind of pain, so we don't have to care." To put it bluntly, it is the hidden deeper anthropocentrism. "They all hurt, but I prefer animals to plants (generally certain animals, such as the so-called" advanced animals ",and most vegetarians shoot mosquitoes)" is certainly a reasonable reason, but one can't think that one is nobler than others.

Therefore, it is understandable to be vegetarian for religious reasons, or because I don't like the taste of meat, or for environmental protection, or simply because I prefer animals to plants. If you are a vegetarian for health or "morality", I think you may be fooled.

Let's see: meat intake has been found to be statistically significant with 2 1 related diseases, and * * * has 37 risks-the results are identified, and they are all positively correlated.

Maximum dose-response Every 50g of processed meat intake will increase the incidence of esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and the mortality of cardiovascular diseases. (Eat less)

Maximum Dose-Response Every increase of 65g of red meat intake will increase the incidence of endometrial cancer, esophageal cancer and lung cancer. (Eat less)

In Asian countries with less meat intake, total red meat intake was found to be negatively correlated with cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality, while poultry meat intake was found to be negatively correlated with all-cause mortality, cancer mortality and the incidence of rectal cancer. (Eat more)

In short, the way of heaven, the loss is more than enough! In poor areas or people who eat less meat, eating meat is beneficial; But people who eat more meat themselves, the more they eat, the higher the risk. The current global and dietary risk assessment may underestimate the disease burden caused by meat intake, so more scientific investigations are needed in low-meat consumption countries.

In fact, young people in Europe and America are no different from us. There are vegetarian and vegan, and many people think that the above two categories are abnormal.

I think we can look at these vegan activists from their slogans.

1.animal slaughtering and exploitation are cruel (it is cruel to slaughter or grab animals)

This is a favorite sentence of European and American vegans. First of all, stand on the commanding heights of morality, criticize all meat eaters, and feel that they are morally noble. At this point, like some Christians in China, they try to make big news when they see others eating pork, knocking others down and criticizing them. In fact, eating vegetarian dishes does not guarantee your moral integrity. Vegetarian processing will pollute the environment, and processing factories may also pay workers low wages or illegally hire child labor. Besides, if you close these factories, what about the unemployed workers? Animal slaughter, animal breeding, how many people survive in this industry, they really say it.

2. Stop animal experiments (stop animal experiments)

We can't say they are wrong about this. But if you stop, what about the patient? Answer: I work in the laboratory of an Australian hospital, mainly doing immune research and diagnosis. Indeed, it would be cruel and inhuman to experiment with mice. Moreover, 5- 10% cowboy serum should be added to the cell culture solution used in the laboratory. How are these serums made? In the slaughterhouse, the calf is taken out of the cow's body, directly stabbed into the heart, the blood is drawn, and then the serum is separated. I admit that this kind of animal experiments are bloody, but when you see all kinds of patients in the hospital who are deformed by diseases, you will have a sense of mission: to make the most accurate results and to study new diagnostic methods as much as possible. Moreover, there are fewer and fewer animals participating in medical experiments now, but we must rely on animals to serve human beings until we find a newer method.

3. Consuming animal meat brings you cardiovascular diseases and cancers.

Admittedly, this sentence has certain statistical significance, but it is very misleading. As the two killers of human health, if the cause of disease is only from eating meat, then why don't we cultivate cells day and night to do research?

4. Animal farming is crawling up our environment.

People from vegan generally pay special attention to environmental protection. I'm not saying that environmental protection is incorrect. But have they calculated how much fossil fuel we burn every day? In view of the fact that vegans are concentrated in developed countries, even if a vegan doesn't eat meat at all and commutes by bike every day, he may consume much more resources than an African non-vegan.

To sum up, there is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian. I respect you no matter what you eat. If we have dinner together, I can also accommodate your habit and have a vegetarian meal with you. But if you see me eating meat and start criticizing me, thinking that I am a savage and don't care for small animals, then I can only let you go. It has to be admitted that among vegetarians, there are mostly white leftists. They love small animals more than human beings. In order not to harm animals, he did not hesitate to let his Homo sapiens lose his job, starve and be humiliated. Every time I see westerners who are in tears and accuse Asians of eating dog meat, I really feel queasy. They really see Asians being bullied. Finally, post a few photos of a vegetarian I know, and let everyone judge for themselves.