Challenge: More US Vegans

You could make Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" cause a huge scare about the meat packing industry and have people swear off it?

Except it did make a huge scare about meat-packing... and the result was inspections.
If anything, I wonder if having The Jungle fail to make an impact might work better for the goal - that way, you have occasional food poisoning incidents from meat, possibly giving meat an 'unsafe' reputation.

Modelcitizen - technically, it would be the USDA that needs to be abolished for your scenario to work. FDA (despite being the 'food and drug administration') does medicine; USDA does inspections on food.
 
Easy. Increased rates of heavy metal contamination in major urban areas leads to a higher rate of neurological deficiencies in the population, as such, stupid ideas such as being a vegan gain greater acceptance.

Because that's not biased at all. As a pescatarian who tried veganism out for a month once and someone who has done research into non-standard dietary regimes, it's a fairly healthy way of life if you know how to get your nutrients correctly. Sure it's not for everyone, but that doesn't make it stupid.
 
Except it did make a huge scare about meat-packing... and the result was inspections.
If anything, I wonder if having The Jungle fail to make an impact might work better for the goal - that way, you have occasional food poisoning incidents from meat, possibly giving meat an 'unsafe' reputation.

Modelcitizen - technically, it would be the USDA that needs to be abolished for your scenario to work. FDA (despite being the 'food and drug administration') does medicine; USDA does inspections on food.


ah ha!

noted, thank you
 
After a Very Bad October, 1962, meat, dairy and eggs are simply too expensive for the surviving U.S. population (who exist primarily on beans and potatoes). Even those who can afford them are deathly afraid of strontium contamination. The Catholic Church has decreed eating meat to be a sin, given the scarcity of vegetable food.
 
Maybe the 60's 'New Age' movement persists longer and becomes a permanent fixture that, somewhere along the way, picks up vegetarianism/veganism as a 'core' concept.

Fast food doesn't take off as much, which reduces the supply of 'cheap' meat products and industrialized food animal agriculture.

The biggest problem of veganism is that it requires substantial substitutions for children, and the movement as a whole would take quite a huge beating if there were lots of vegans because there would be many more brainless twits who would permanently wreck their children's lives by feeding them foods that aren't nutritionally rich enough or, in the case of babies, indigestible.

Vegetarianism is a natural human diet, and with ancillary animal products like milk and eggs, easily equal to an omnivorous diet. Veganism, otoh, is severely restricted diet. It is a lot harder to put together a plate of food that is nutritious enough without getting into vitamin supplements and other 'icky' things children don't particularly like or would remember to take.
 

Tovarich

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Easy- start Las Vegas out as an entertainment center earlier on. The population will begin the exponential increase earlier. Thus, by present day there will be a much greater number of Las Vegans, several of whom will not use animal products.

But then how would they butter bings? :confused:
 
One problem I see is that while health and safety scares and difficult transport might cause a drop in demand most people will still want to include animal products in their lives. If it`s hard/expensive to get meat people will keep chooks, ducks and geese in suburbia like they did 50 years ago. My mother tells me that when she was young the odd person even kept a sheep or goat fed on the local road reserves etc. That to me shows a strong motivation to use animal products despite the difficulty of getting them through commercial channels.
 
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