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

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

Raw steak needs refrigeration at most, but the full-mechanized production, processing, disinfection and transportation of salad leaves are much more complicated. Then it's not just vegetables in the salad. Grab a box of fast food salad at a Canadian supermarket, which contains at least a dozen ingredients. The more complicated the diet, the more consumers are inclined to buy finished products, and the more profitable food companies are.

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 vacillate between an 8 Canadian steak and a 6 Canadian salad at noon, food companies will make a lot of money.

Besides, you underestimated the vegetable salad.

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

In addition to green leaves, the ingredients in fast food salad also include many hidden garlic-flavored fried croutons, boiled quinoa or grains, nuts, shredded cheese, fried chicken or hamburger diced meat. And then pour a large cup of sauce with full-fat yogurt or mayonnaise as the main ingredient, which is rich in nutrition and scary in calories. Moreover, this kind of fast food salad is a huge box from the beginning, and Subway's most popular set meal is fried chicken breast lettuce salad by weight.

The most deceptive thing is that this fast-food salad with many vegetables digests very quickly. Most people are hungry before eating, so they should chew some snacks in class.

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

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

Moreover, these healthy believers eat according to milligrams every day, and various softwares will help them calculate how much nutrition they have eaten and what to supplement (if they eat too much, they will be ignored). For example, if protein has insufficient intake, he will drink a large glass of almond milk with two tablespoons of protein powder or two large supplements in the evening.

The most interesting thing is that the best vegetarian nutritional supplement sold is made of chicken, but the instructions are very 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? Take a picture of 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, so it doesn't need any cooking skills, so the cost of actually making a salad is not high, especially in large factories for mass production. These factories use assembly line machines to cut vegetables. However ..... a pack of cabbage can be easily sold for 2 dollars. Label it organic and price it at $5.

Wow, this money is really easy to earn.

Vegetarianism has been packaged as a "healthy choice" and a "middle-class style" and has become a fashion, which is crucial because it will make more and more young men and women jump into lucrative fast food salads. (Note that it is a ready-to-eat salad, and the vegetarian option in a normal restaurant is a good choice. ) Vegetarianism was originally considered as a way to lose weight and keep healthy, but in recent years, it has become a way of life. Some vegetarians choose vegetarian food not for any specific purpose, but because it is very popular and popular in their circle of friends; Vegetarianism has its own vitality, a relatively stable minority. As the previous answer said, Madang L, Wendy's Subway and other monsters produce salads-it's simple to make, except Subway, which is ready-made and boxed, which 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 exactly. After all, people can't live without protein and fat. Why do Buddhists in East Asia fast the most? Because only China, Japanese and Korean have stable sources of soybean protein.

Now this product has become a complete market chain. Stakeholders involve all aspects of society, and even hot dog stalls on the roadside must prepare vegetarian options. 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 methods of manipulators and even fools brought by capitalism. Being fooled is a consumer's business. Capitalists can munch on steak and count money while lying down.

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

Depending on the reason:

1 for environmental protection

If we only look at food, a vegan diet does have less impact on the environment than meat. But what about the environmental impact of the treatment process? Hannah Pu Nana is quoted as saying that "raw steak needs refrigeration at most, but the whole process of mechanized production, processing, disinfection and transportation of salad leaves is much more complicated." Counting the processing process, it is probably not clear which one has the greatest impact on the environment. However, I personally think that less processed vegetarian food (such as buying a lettuce and cutting it yourself instead of buying a bagged salad) is more environmentally friendly.

For the sake of health

It doesn't make any sense. According to the dietary guidelines of China residents, adults should consume120-200g meat, 300-500g vegetables, 200-250g fruits and 250-400g cereals and potatoes every day. Vegetarian 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, then it is a landslide fallacy to say that vegetarianism is healthy. Moderation and excess are two completely different things.

3 stands for morality

It doesn't make sense. According to the current definition of pain, plants will also feel pain (will plants hurt? )。 The deep logic of "it is immoral to eat animals, but it is okay to eat plants" is that "the pain of plants is so different from ours that we can't understand it, so we don't have to care." To put it bluntly, it is the hidden deeper anthropocentrism. "They all hurt people, but I prefer animals to plants (usually some animals, such as the so-called" advanced animals ",most vegetarians pat mosquitoes)" is of course a reasonable reason, but one can't think that one is nobler than others.

So it is understandable to be a vegetarian, either for religious reasons, or because you don't like the taste of meat, or for environmental protection, or just because you like animals and don't like plants. If you are a vegetarian for health or "morality", I think you may be cheated.

Let's see: meat intake has been found to be statistically significant with 265,438+0 related diseases, and * * * 37 risks-the results have been determined, and they are all positively correlated.

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

The incidence of endometrial cancer, esophageal cancer and lung cancer will increase with the increase of the maximum dose-response red meat intake of 65g. (Eat less)

In Asian countries with less meat intake, it is found that the total intake of red meat is negatively correlated with cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality, while the intake of poultry meat is negatively correlated with all-cause mortality, cancer mortality and rectal cancer incidence. (eat more)

In a word, Heaven can do more damage than it can do! 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 countries with low meat consumption.

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

I think it can be seen from the slogans of these vegetarians.

1. It is cruel to slaughter and exploit animals.

This is a favorite sentence of European and American vegetarians. First of all, standing on the commanding heights of morality, criticizing all meat eaters and feeling morally noble. At this point, they are like some Christians in China. When they see others eating pork, they try to make big news, knock others down and criticize them. In fact, eating vegetarian dishes does not guarantee your integrity. Vegetarian processing will pollute the environment, and processing plants may also pay workers low wages or illegally hire child labor. Besides, what will happen to the unemployed workers if these factories are closed? Animal slaughter, animal breeding, how many people survived in this industry, they really said.

2. Stop animal experiments (stop animal experiments)

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

Eating animal meat will bring you cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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

Animal breeding is spreading in our environment.

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

To sum up, there is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian. Whatever you eat, I respect you. If we eat together, I can also indulge your habit and be a vegetarian 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. I have to admit that among vegetarians, most of them are white leftists. They love small animals more than human beings. In order not to harm animals, he did not hesitate to make his Homo sapiens unemployed, hungry and humiliated. Every time I see westerners accusing Asians of eating dog meat in tears, I really feel sick. They really see Asians being bullied. Finally, post some photos of a vegetarian I know, and let everyone judge for themselves.