Britons eating less meat
NZPA London One in three Britons have reduced their consumption of meat and there is now a definite shift towards a vegetarian diet, according to a recent report. The conscious avoidance of meat and outright vegetarianism had increased about 60 per cent in the last year, said Mr Gregory Sams, the chairman of Realeat, a health food company which sold more than seven million non-meat burgers last year. “The trend away from meat is not a passing fad but the beginning of very sweeping changes in eating habits caused by concern about such things’ as coronaries, the ethics of killing, and domestic economics,” he said.
A survey conducted by Gallup for his company found that in 1978 only two million people had reduced their meat consumption but by last year it had risen to 19 million.
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