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Fact or Fiction?
We hear your diet has changed, do you know why?
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Comment 1 27 Mar 2009, 2:30 PM
I have been a vegetarian for more than 24 years and I believe that more people are not eating meat as the meat industry is a major contributor towards carbon emissions (not to mention animal cruelty, feeding quality grain to animals for meat production when people could eat the grain direct, environmental devastation, polllution, etc).
I eat healthily and don't eat food chain foods (again globalisation, multi-national companies) as they are not only full of fat and sugar but generally poor nutritiously. I also avoid over processed foods and tins, frozen, etc. If you start with fresh fruit and vegetables, throw in some beans/grains/nuts... then you can't go wrong and it is fairly inexpensive being a vegetarian compared to meat based foods.
Comment 1.1 1 Apr 2009, 11:16 AM
There are some people who will always eat local produce and ecohawk (although I dont know you, I think!) you sound like one of them - and good on you. But the real challenge is making fresh local produce popular with the wider non vegetarian population. Personally I dont see much evidence of changing habits there.
Comment 1.1.1 28 Apr 2009, 9:32 AM
Yes it is difficult to change the eating habits of the wider population.
Perhaps if the Meat Industry advertised transparently to the wider population then most would instantly become vegetarians!
I don't think that the wider population actually give much consideration to where their food comes from, especially not the taboo of where their meat comes from! Imagine seeing an advertisement for beef... showing the cow grazing, then trucked off to an abbatoir, cow waiting in the pens, shocked by electric prodders, hung upside down, throat slit and then gutted and processed - if this was the advertisement - how more…
Comment 2 27 Mar 2009, 2:30 PM
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Comment 3 26 Apr 2009, 10:01 PM
Because getting full on healthy food is better for you, your family and your future than if you get full on rubbish food. Doctors orders!