A handy FAQ for anyone struggling to curb their meat-eating ways
We can get through this. Photo: Nakhorn Yuangkratoke / EyeEm/Getty Images The country’s carnivores are panicking: Every day brings more news about disruption in the nation’s meat supply. This feels like a problem since Americans famously love cheeseburgers. But this is probably not a thing to actually be anxious about . Instead, since you likely have some added time on your hands and are cooking more for yourself anyway, it’s probably just a time to adjust and eat fewer animal products.
Grub Street is not here to preach the benefits of vegetarianism, but you could probably just eat less meat.I mean eating a diet that is mostly not meat, instead of treating meat as the main event of each meal.You can still eat steak. But — considering the brutal environmental toll of beef production, and the dire circumstances confronting the underpaid, exceptionally vulnerable workers who have to make most of America’s steak — it’s not a bad idea to eat mostly other things.
I will try these fancy quinoa burgs, but I can’t promise to like them. You are not going to turn me into a vegan. It isn’t, like, hard to be more thoughtful about meat consumption. Cook recipes that call for less of it, and be mindful about the places where you do buy it. That’s it. If a pack of pork chops costs something like $2.99 a pound, you can be sure that whoever made it is harming the earth and exploiting their workers. Go eat some beans instead.Beans are so good. You can even cook them with a little bit of bacon — just make sure you use the good stuff.
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