You do realize that most Asian cultures have long been more favorable to vegetarian-leaning meals as a larger share of their diet than Yurop, as they increase their wealth and the West continues to explode past food scarcity as a daily dietary concern that it's not unreasonable to see an increase in both the vegetarian and meat markets at the same time right? Neither inherently suppresses the other purely by existing or growing.
Most of those Asian cultures eat fish, and a lot of it. Vegans don't eat fish.
Question: have any of you actually met a healthy vegan? i haven't. They either look horribly depleted and tired, or bloated like a balloon from the extra carbs they shove in their faces to compensate.
I didn't say they were entirely hardcore vegan cultures or never ate meat. I said they eat vegetarian or vegetarian-leaning meals for a much larger percentage of their diet than the "West" does. Most cusine cultures descended from Yurop have meat as a dominant part of every meal, Asian cultures often have meatless meals or more accurately far more dishes at a meal with no or almost no meat in them.
If you consider that much of American cusine culture's carb increase is due to a history of meat/vegetable substitution then it's hardly surprising to see an American dietary week of mostly meat and carbs versus Asian/Islamic ones comparatively low despite rice/noodles/bread being comparatively high in nearly every meal.
I was pointing this out as a way to show how your links of the vegetarian or vegan markets can be increasing at the same time as Mandark's chart of the increase in per capita meat consumption in the U.S. And this is even discounting that at least in the rich part of the West, many people can be responsible for
both trends. Even if the people never cook themselves, higher end cusine has long been a domain of low-carb meals compared to us proles. Carb substitution is a lower class trend that we're somewhat growing out of as we become richer.
Of course, that can always change in terms of "fads" obviously. To bring it back to Jordan Peterson, lobsters were once considered garbage pests thrown to the low class dock workers and bottom of the ship human garbage. But it's rare that these fads can affect the whole population quickly and strongly like you're positing with vegans, especially considering that Americans really love meat. (The better counterpoint for your argument might be Prohibition.)
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