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[quote=Anonymous]Not all "significant" cuisines involve meat. Indian vegetarian cuisine is, I think, pretty significant.

The more important question IMO is the environmental impact. I say this as someone who does eat meat, although far less than my parents did. At cookouts my experience of plant based burgers and brats is that they are like decaf coffee. I also say this as someone from a farm family. I do know that cattle are useful for converting grass we can't eat into meat we can, and can make better use of some farm land than cropping would be--topsoil loss from intensive cropping is real and serious. But the environmental impact is huge and growing, and climate changes are having a direct impact on agriculture all over the world. Water in Arizona is being depleted by alfalfa shipped to Saudi Arabia to feed their cows. I also think the lives of wild animals probably warrant more attention than the lives of the animals we have essentially created (cows in medieval times were a fraction of the size they are now--weighing in at a few hundred pounds instead of 1100-1800 lb for slaughter beef). [/quote]

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