It never occurred to me that America's beef-eating culture is a holdover from feudal Europe.
World Changing blogger Justus Stewart on eating American:
Because, really, it makes no cultural sense. There were no cows in America when Europeans landed here. The cattle we know today are here because we brought them here. We eat beef because the English ate beef. We have lawns because the English had lawns. . . . beef and lawns were status symbols
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What do you expect? Most of us are not of this land. Everyone, even the Native Americans/American Indians, are transplants from another landmass and another culture.
I'd expect people to do things that make sense to their best interests in their current environment. Lawns, and the chemicals they entail which leech into the ground water and poison our environments are the opposite of this. Not to mention, this land could be used to grow vegetables rather than truck it in from far away places and pay increasing amounts of $$ for the tasteless rotten frankenfoods at the grocery store.
Of course, that's all way too sensible for humans. What really happens is they continue to blindly follow the social dominance hierarchy, (i.e., today's version of the old feudal system) regardless of whether it helps them and and their children, and despite the fact that they supposedly moved to this land and fought a war to escape it.
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