Now, even here in Ecuador, I can get Beyond Meat burgers and sausages and all that.
I was raised vegetarian in Australia, and at that time, it was very, very rare to have anything available. My mum was called into the school to talk to the principal about my older brothers, because they believed not feeding meat was child abuse :D
but the kids saw me.
I have noticed a stark increase in children and young adults littering now. It wasn't an issue when I was a kid, nor was it an issue when I first came to Finland. All that talk of "environmental awareness in the young" seems to be BS from what I have commonly observed.
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!"
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.