What are the constraints based on where you live? I knew someone who grew up heavily on beef since she was from a small, rural country. Is it a similar reason?
I'm interested in food insecurity and related things, which is why I ask.
I'm interested in food insecurity and related things, which is why I ask.
Not even morningstar farms veggie burgers in grocery stores. But that was 10 years ago, things are different now.
Whenever I go home for Christmas I'm amazed at what's available.
Before moving in, I used to think it should be easy to be vegetarian in a Buddhist country but it is not. Japan's culinary habit is that a good meal needs to have a lot of different ingredients in it. From a dietetics point of view, that's great but it often means that even in most salads, you'll have a few pieces of bacon or chicken, a shrimp or some grains of minced meat.
That still makes for a very meat-light diet and I would switch to a no-meat-at-all in a heartbeat if those bentos and salads came in vegetarian versions, but that makes it almost impossible to totally avoid meat.