"Travis McGee" > wrote in message
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> http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...802-story.html
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> How we went from beef on the hoof to mystery meat in a box
> By Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

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I suspect that the meat consumption went up when people started cutting back
on the carbs. I eat some meat now. Not a lot. I ate little to none for
many years. I might have consumed some animal products like lard in some
dish or chicken broth in Mexican rice, but I didn't eat much at all in terms
of out and out meat. Perhaps maybe once or twice a year at a restaurant or
some such thing.