Meat has always been a core part of the human diet due to the high amount of protein and fats a human can attain from eating meat. Only recently has meat become more abundant. Following the sudden burst, so has the controversial information that too much meat is bad for the human body and therefore the vegetarian diet is becoming common. Some moralists believe that eating meat is wrong which also lead to the rise of vegetarianism.
Today in the first world countries, the problem is not money meat is cheap these days. People chose to be Vegetarian, yet vegetarian food is not necessarily cheap as you often have to go to special stores. Many delicacies around the world have different varieties of meat in them and if someone is a traveler they are most likely to find better meals with meat included. As Westonaprice stated, “all traditional cultures consume some sort of animal protein and fat from fish and other seafood; water and land fowl; land animals; eggs; milk and milk products; reptiles; and insects.” (westonaprice 2) This means that all civilizations have survived off animal products making the dishes that originate from a region much more likely to contain some sort of animal product.
Second, meat is not as harmful as many people believe. Humans
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There are no statistics on this in the medical database and “very little scientific literature that carefully compares mortality and disease rates in vegetarians and nonvegetarians.” (Westonaprice) Mortality is approximately the same. In the year 1991, Dr. Russell Smith, a statistician, conducted an experiment to see if there is any significant differences by being vegetarian. His data “Revealed no benefit from vegetarianism in terms of overall mortality or longevity.” (Westonaprice) This simply confirms the previous statement of their being no material