{"id":11241,"date":"2008-06-16T00:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/06\/16\/11241.html"},"modified":"2008-06-16T00:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:29:33","slug":"cutting-back-on-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/06\/16\/cutting-back-on-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting back on meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interesting New York Times<\/cite> article on ways to cut back on meat consumption<\/a> by Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

Bittman does two things in this article that I don't think I've seen anyone do before:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ignores the question of why you might be cutting back on meat; as he notes, there are many reasons that people do this. He's focused entirely on how to go about it if you're already interested in doing it.<\/li>\n
  2. Talks about reducing<\/em> meat consumption, not eliminating it. He says: \"I\u2019m not talking about eating no meat; I\u2019m talking about cutting back, which in some ways is harder than quitting.\"<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On a personal note, I find the article intriguing because (a) I've been trying to cut back on chicken and fish for a while now, and (b) even though I'm a lifelong non-red-meat-eater, if there isn't some substantial-feeling main dish, containing at least one of a certain set of ingredients (protein or carbohydrates, mostly), then it doesn't feel<\/em> like a meal to me. I've never liked tapas or dim sum or (by itself) sushi or other meals-in-little-parts; I tend to eat too much of any of those things, because they feel like little side dishes rather than full meals. So I like Bittman's notion (one among several suggestions he makes) of not centering the meal around one big hunk of meat, but I can imagine that being tough to do; it might require changing one's entire idea of what constitutes a meal.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, interesting article, and I thought it was worth spreading.<\/p>\n

    (Thanks, Chaos, for the link!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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