Do we simply think wrong about our meat consumption?

The Swedish people are in an rebellion, so expensive the food has become. At the same time, we eat more meat – last year consumption went up by an average of 2.1 percent per person, which is the largest increase in twelve years, the Swedish Agricultural Agency’s statistics show.

How’s it going together?

In part, of course, it is about what kind of meat we eat more of. A lot of products, after all, condition a relatively low price from the beginning, not least those of lower quality: sludge that is bound together with potato fibers and flavor enhancers and presented as sausages and other char, frozen semi -finished and preserves.

But the question is Also if it is not that we simply think wrong?

There are actually those who might rather eat more Meat than now: Not least teenage girls, which are growing so it is cracking at the same time as they often have quite abundant menstrual bleeding. New research from Lund University shows that 38 percent of high school girls suffer from iron deficiency – by vegetarians it was almost 70 percent.

But in general, we need to reduce our consumption. It is not just about health, but about the fact that the levels we are up to now are also unsustainable for the environment and the climate. There are not even any major changes that are required, really. It would be enough to eat as in the 1990s, when the standard of living was still high.

It is true a broad awareness of this. At the same time, meat eating has become something of a political mark, which is related to the right winds blowing through the world. Embarrassing parents guys about the meat -free Mondays of the schools, that their children are « right » to eat meat for lunch every day. But why would they have it?

We need to learn to consider meat in a different way. Not as the given main number in every dish, before which the meal is not complete, but as a nice accessory- or even just one spice: a lens stew gets new depths of musty chicken broth, potato and purjo soup taste extra good with crispy bacon.

Yes, I should not be long -winded. All I want is to remind you that another approach is not only possible, but directly necessary. Both for our own sake, for us to live as long as possible, but also for the children who will soon inherit the earth from us.

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