Reply To: Meat eating and the flexitarianism

I did recognize it as the piper saying but thought I would apply to the food industry and the market for non-meat products.

I touched on it in a previous post when I referred to Greggs vegan sausage roll being a best seller for them and that when the food industry offers tasty alternatives to meat and promotes it, people readily adopt it.

But when the food industry is reluctant to make available alternatives and sometimes campaigns against them then people are more prone to accept the arguments that vegetarianism/veganism infringes upon their freedom of choice in what they eat, not acknowledging that the actual lack of choice is prevalent in the current food industry, presenting a limited menu.

The public end up singing from the same song-book as the industrialised livestock business.

As for the German protest, I fully recognize the flaws in many of the participants’ claims i.e. that small is better and local is good, as implied by Matt’s turkey reply. However, on the positive side, there was a recognition that food is not a personal question of individual choice but a much wider one within the context of the economic system and that it requires a social solution, not a life-style option.

I’m sure we all know Ludwig Feuerbach famous phrase, “We are what we eat” but he also stated, “A man who enjoys only a vegetable diet is only a vegetating being.”  🙂