because they believed not feeding meat was child abuse
It's similar here. People don't understand it, and as they have no idea about nutrition anyway, nor do they see that many of their sickness comes from over-consumption of animal products, they judge. And "joke". The protein question... the island... Oh, and the macho infused "so you don't do oral sex, because, you know, it's meat, hahahaha so funny!"
It wasn't an issue when I was a kid, nor was it an issue when I first came to Finland.
Maybe it skipped a generation? Too much focus on it, turning the now-parents away when they were kids? I don't even understand why people litter. Everything has pockets these days. And most litter is so small. But that's me. I'm weird. Positively weird, I hope.
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I think the litter thing here is that there isn't focus on it. Parents don't litter, their kids do. There are bins everywhere here also.