American media: Worried about climate change, the Germans are accelerating "abstain from meat"

The Walks News Network on July 22, the original title: What is the way Germany is using meat to "abstain from meat" and Germany is one of the few countries in the world that is not much meat consumption. In 2011, Germany eats 138 pounds of meat every year, which is now 121 pounds, a decrease of 12.3%. At the same time, the retail sales of German plant foods have almost doubled.

A survey found that from 2016 to 2020, the number of vegan people in Germany doubled to 2.6 million, accounting for 3.2%of the population. This is a huge increase, but it is not enough to explain the sharp decline in meat consumption in the country. Germany's staff who reduced meat consumption initiative to organize the "Proveblytic International Plant Food Association" Tidd said: "In fact, elastic vegetarians have promoted this development." Experts said that elastic vegetarians (that is, reduced but and and and and and The increase in incomplete rejection of meat consumption) may be caused by a series of meat industry scandals in recent years. The exposure of the slaughter plant forced labor, the reports of rotten meat from all over the country, the outbreak of bird flu and the influenza of pigs, and the investigation of animal abuse may affect the German's attitude towards meat.

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The same problem is also staged in other countries, but the impact is much smaller. What makes Germany is different from young people in the country. They are deeply worried about climate change and regard the reform of the food system as a way to curb the emissions of the greenhouse gas. The production of meat and dairy products accounts for about 15%of global greenhouse gas emissions. "Among young people, you can see a cultural change," said Dewitz, Germany, said, said what they pay more attention to and how to eat. "

The Heinrich Berry Foundation conducted a survey of young people aged 15 to 29 in Germany in 2021, and found that 12.7%of the respondents thought they were vegetarians or veganists. This proportion was about about Two times the average level of Germany. The German government's recent investigation found that the proportion of people aged 14 to 29 to buy plant -based products is slightly higher than those aged 30 to 44, far higher than 60 years old. This enthusiasm can be partially attributed to the "Friday for the Future", which is part of the leadership of young people. In the survey of the Heinrich Berry Foundation, more than 16%of the respondents said they participated in the movement to some extent. "For young people, eating less meat or not eating meat is more like a political statement."

Some departments of the German federal government seem to have seriously treated the view of "eating less meat". Recently, the Minister of Agriculture Jim Ezdmir listed the transfer to the plant -based diet as the first of the four priorities of the 4 priority priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture. This change is not just because of political changes. Restaurant, food technology startups and large food companies are constantly innovating, which also makes the quality of plant food better and easier to obtain. (Author Kenny Torira, translate by biography)

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