To outline the factors underlying this fundamental cultural shift away from animal products - 750 million vegans in 2015 as compared to just a few million worldwide in the 1990s.ĭiving into history, the author interrogates the seemingly iron-wrought (read: marketing-wrought) narratives surrounding our current diet convictions and addresses nutrition concerns (yes, there are other sources of protein).
How to imagine a vegetarian future? Van Voorst uses her personal journey as a springboard It is difficult, however, to abandon such fundamental beliefs, especially without an alternative vision of how you can still eat good food and stay healthy.
The idea that every week more animals are killed for human consumption than humans who have died in all wars in human history combined is something we can hardly imagine now and may struggle to understand in the future. Our vegan grandchildren will ask us how we ever could have lived and eaten as we did. More and more scientists and futurists predict that eating meat and dairy will be banned or become taboo. According to anthropologist Roanne van Voorst, we are living in one of history’s transitional moments, a fundamental tipping point.
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