• Froyn@kbin.social
    19·
    10 months ago

    Is it still healthy when you cook the vegetables in bacon fat, cover them in cheese, deep fry them, then cover them in cheese and bacon again?

    Now that I’ve read the article… Um… There is a great lack of source data which leads me to believe they’ve basically added up how many kilos of vegetables a country produces/imports and divided by estimate populous. In other words, with no evidence to the contrary, they’re including vegetables used in manufacturing/production of non food goods. Think of all the corn “consumed” by making biodiesel.

    Sure they take the time to include a broken link where they define vegetable, but they need to also define consume. (See the biodiesel example)

  • Microw@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 months ago

    Serbia’s meat culture vs the more veggie-leaning ones around it lol

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
      82·
      10 months ago

      Half of Europe’s vegetable supply comes from southern Spain you plonker

      Where were you looking, the fuckin butcher’s? 😂

      Edit - OP edited his comment to add “in restaurants” without marking it as such

      Perhaps he was on the east coast where every restaurant’s biggest seller is the Full English Breakfast. We’ll never know

  • tumulus_scrolls@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    10 months ago

    Don’t know about the methodology, but this interestingly contradicts what “health food” culture would have you believe, esp. USA vs. Western Europe, and the relative place of countries like France.

    In general, poorer and less connected to global economy means more vegetables? More affluent people people can’t help the convenience of other foods? The other variable would be agriculture, and depth of living in capitalist economy including the older generations (which excludes Eastern Europe). I suspect in some places relatively “silent” and unpublicized demographics, like older people in the east, can skew the stats. I wonder who eats vegetables in the US (disclaimer, never been there) and what comes to mind is poor people outside metropolitan areas.

      • theotherone@kbin.social
        11·
        10 months ago

        That Europeans, specifically those around the Mediterranean Sea, are healthier than Americans because of a greater degree of vegetal nutrition. Like any complex system, there are more factors involved, I’d wager.

        • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          Are we counting corn in this? The link to their list of veggies 404s.

          Because the numbers for the US would make much more sense. But yes, it’s certainly more complex than that. Not all veggies are created equal, and if the proteins and fats are coming from different sources that’ll be big too.