Fans of this supply are now three million
The warning Eurispes: a half century will be the majority of
LICIA GRAIN - October 9, 2002 L'Espresso
LONDON - all vegetarian the world unite. Knowing that many, many. Spread so powerful and unexpected as to induce the weekly "Time" to dedicate the service to cover the topic of this week, complete with required application: "We should all be vegetarians?".
The question is wide open and so contradictory to trigger reactions and moods opposite extreme. But while we question, the number of those close relationships with butchers and similar rises exponentially across the world, including Italy. According to the latest data Eurispes, in fact, in less than three years ('99-present) we have gone from one million and a half to nearly three million vegetarians. Which are, in most vegetarian-called "spurious", ie consumers of dairy products, eggs and fish (one or all classes, as appropriate), but specific enough in their new approach to food, to be considered a sociological tribe of all respect.
According to "Time", the explosion of the vegetarian movement has caused so many other not be traceable to a single event. So, if in Europe the number of anti-meat has grown with the spread of the BSE scandal, the United States the puzzle is made up of fragments less than usual for us. The rampant obesity - the hamburger with the dock - especially teenagers has led to identify the meat as a dispenser of horrible calories and then deny it, inside and outside the canon superpanino padded (with instant pop burger vegetarian ). The same equation lean vegetarian, however, experts say, is all the more dangerous when you consider the amount of sauces, fried foods and sweets outside the animal kingdom .... Other
deterrent to the consumption of meat, the "personification" of animals, a mechanism that originated in the earliest feature films of Walt Disney, down to the film dedicated to the pig Babe. In the United States, the gadgetteria linked to the cartoons is an integral part of everyday childhood, from pencil to bear. As a child growing up in front of the television can calmly think to bite a leg in everything similar to Bugs Bunny or a slice of Clarabelle Cow? All this without forgetting the strong ethical value of vegetarianism, according to which the forage crops intended for slaughter animals may be converted to feed the needy.
More prosaic, but equally sensitive to the misery from malalimentazione, the Italians have also begun to vigorously push on the pedal of a meatless diet and the results are now evident in social and commercial: raise your hand if you have never heard of tofu or soy steaks. As for restaurants, the last census vegetarian association has filed more than three hundred, to which add a lot, now a permanent feature on the menu a good selection of dishes free of animal protein. The Mediterranean diet, from this point of view, it offers extensive guarantees, including pasta and risotto, difficult to risk the antisocial for reasons of dishes.
I doubt there are others. S'inquietano, parents, faced with the reluctant teenage children in front of the steak: we grew up with her mother patiently bites that cut the inevitable slice, can you can grow just fine without it? Nutritionists, for once, all agree, one can argue that. A condition of using alternative protein, legumes, dairy products (depending on whether you are vegetarian more or less full).
The numbers, moreover, give them reason: according to Eurispes, by mid-century in Italy, vegetarians will be thirty million, exceeding the number of carnivores. And for the wretched of the steak will be hard times.
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