I think you're leaving out a bit of context there, just before that sentence it says: > Surely culture has something to do with it. Decades of advertising have

I think you're leaving out a bit of context there, just before that sentence it says: > Surely culture has something to do with it. Decades of advertising have told the world that to eat meat is to be powerful and virile, an ideal of maleness in a world where men dominate. (Studies show that meat eaters tend to hold more authoritarian political viewpoints.) and also includes a link to another article about this. [1] Obviously we have evolved to eat meat and that's part of the reason we enjoy it, the same reason as sugar etc, but culture clearly plays some part. Different countries eat different amounts of different types of meat. America eats more beef than most, India eats almost none. Most of the world doesn't eat very much horse meat, even though there's no reason we couldn't eat more. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/14/beef-american-masculinity-beef-cowboys https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/14/beef-american-m...