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> Our relationship with food is unhealthy Your American relationship with food is unhealthy. Our relationship with food here in France, and many other countrie
by Fiahil 5y ago
> Our relationship with food is unhealthy
Your American relationship with food is unhealthy. Our relationship with food here in France, and many other countries is perfectly fine.
- asymmetric 5y agoFrance has a higher meat consumption per person than the Europe-wide average: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-meat-consumption-per-person https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-meat-consumption-pe...
- pigeonhole123 5y agoMeat is unhealthy? You may want to take a deeper look at where that notion stems from. I recommend the book The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz for a history primer. Or just look at the lifespan in Hong Kong which is one of the top meat consumers in the world per capita. I think it's suspect that the USA, the number one polluter and the unhealthiest country in the world now wants to dictate what other people should eat while consuming 10x the gasoline per capita as others. For environmental and health reasons of course. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/articles/52/ https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/articles/52/
- flipbrad 5y agoI say this as a Frenchman: what a ridiculous statement. French meat and dairy consumption is not "perfectly fine".
- Fiahil 5y agoBetween us, there is indeed room for improvements, but when we are discussing this topic with our fellow Americans, we must put things into perspective. Compared to them we are perfectly fine, as their meat production and consumption is an absolute shitshow!