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Why are Americans so obsessed with meat and plant-based substitutes? I remember some Americanised kids in 5th grade bullying me for eating whole vegetables, which in hindsight was bizarre.
Don't assume everyone online is from the USA. An that kid was simply an asshole that had parents that didn't teach to eat vegetable.
Meat is a major part of the diet of a huge amount of humans, and has been for a long time by now. To assume only the USA consumes large quantities of meat it is simply absurd. I can speak for my own country having cold cuts has a huge part of its food culture.
Well America ≠ USA, but I do admit that I initially had North Americans in mind.
I was talking about a different type of meat obsession, not culture. It's the one where a population can't imagine eating whole vegetables at all.
That's not really a thing. They are everywhere in the world. Many people just don't eat veggies from pure disdain to simply not thinking about them. This is more of a parenting and/or education problem.