Is meat off the menu?

nzvs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:38:00 -0000

Yes says Raj Patel: growing food for animals is a waste of resources

in an overcrowded world.

Sunday June 22, 2008
Observer Food Monthly

America is the most overweight country on earth. Only three out of 10 Americans
have a normal body weight. I should have guessed that one of the side effects of
moving to the US would be bloating.

Since leaving London for America a decade ago, I've put on a couple of stone. It's
easy enough to blame the food environment here. This is, after all, the land where
Reagan pronounced tomato ketchup a fruit and, more recently, where French fries
and chocolate-covered cherries were legally dubbed 'fresh produce' under a US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation known as the batter-coating rule.

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Is meat off the menu?