Posted on 04/23/2022 1:08:21 PM PDT by dennisw
Americans have renounced beef! Everyone’s eating plants! The vegan trend is supposedly so huge these days, we are in the midst of an identity crisis, The New York Times claimed recently. “When it comes to America’s legacy of Manifest Destiny, there’s perhaps no meal more symbolic than a bleeding steak. So who are we now that we’re consuming less red meat?” the paper of record blathered.
The only problem is that such claims are 100% baloney. Although US consumption of beef fell from about 80 pounds annually per capita in the 1970s and early ’80s to a low of 54 pounds in 2017, it’s steadily rebounded since then to 58.6 pounds in 2021.
Yes, we are eating more beef today than we did five years ago, despite plant-based “Impossible” meat and Beyond Burgers taking over American menus and even McDonald’s.
Chef Daniel Humm became revered in global culinary circles for his restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, which switched to a no-meat menu last year. But his other vegan efforts in New York and London proved unpopular.
Clearly, the “save your body, save the animals, save the planet” movement has not made a dent in actual eating habits, although some zealots are drinking the eco-friendly Kool-Aid — i.e., those plunking down $335 (before tip) for a cortege of microscopic “courses” at all-vegan Eleven Madison Park.
Let’s note that, despite reported high demand for reservations at EMP, which has all of 80 seats, the owners of a new skyscraper, 425 Park Avenue, pulled the plug on a planned new restaurant there by EMP chef/owner Daniel Humm because he insisted on an all-vegan menu. Humm also got the boot from London’s Claridge’s hotel over the same issue.
The truth is that true vegans are scarcer than Bernie Sanders supporters in Miami Beach.
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The media-propelled notion that Americans have turned from red meat to fake meat is a case of Park Slope talking to Park Slope — elites hilariously out of touch with the masses.
The recent Times article, for example, cited a 2019 Gallup poll where one-quarter of respondents claimed they ate less meat. But in restaurants, people’s true tastes are on display for all to see.
Big Apple steakhouses are thriving and adding locations. Wolfgang’s has grown from a single Manhattan location to five since 2004. In the past five years, Hawksmoor opened up shop here from London, Mastro’s from Beverly Hills, and Salt Bae’s Nusr-Et from Istanbul.
The most in-demand dishes include Carbone’s $85 veal parmigiana (which drew crowds for takeout during the 2020 indoor-dining ban) and Carne Mare’s $115 gorgonzola-cured wagyu striploin. A new place called Skirt Steak NYC in Chelsea sells nothing else and is packed all the time.
British steakhouse Hawksmoor opened a New York outpost (above) during the height of the pandemic. Even with its high-priced menu, the restaurant has proven a hit with both critics and diners.
New York steakhouses are thriving, including Nusr-Etm run by Nusret Gokce (aka Salt Bae), the social media-famous founder from Turkey.
Of course, the ban-the-beef movement is part of the ban-anything-that-tastes-good mindset that holds sway in woker-than-thou circles. Two years ago, the Conde Nast-owned Epicurious site harrumphed that, in the interest of “sustainability,” it would no longer carry new beef recipes. An editor’s note hinted that it expected others to follow. To date, no other comparable media organ has been stupid enough to do so.
The sale of foie gras will be banned altogether in the Big Apple as of Oct. 31. The goal is to spare ducks and geese the alleged misery of force-feeding. But the true purpose is to stick it to supposedly rich customers. By the same “cruelty” standard, sale of chickens and pork, which people of all income levels consume, should also be forbidden.
Meanwhile, Mark Pastore, president of Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors (which sells to places from Porter House to Shake Shack), told me his company’s red-meat sales “increase year after year by anywhere from 10-15 percent. I don’t see the demand dwindling anytime soon either anywhere.”
You cannot grow row crops everywhere. Cattle are essential for economies of areas where raising plant based food is uncompetitive.
“we are eating more beef today than we did five years ago, despite plant-based “Impossible” meat and Beyond Burgers taking over American menus...”
Anybody that’s taken the time to do the research knows fake meat isn’t as healthy as real beef.....and in most cases way more unhealthy.
You won’t hear the carrot eaters admitting that though.
The people trying to remove meat from our diets, particularly beef, due to ‘Global Warming’ are the ones leading the charge for WW3 in Ukraine.
One wonders... do the headline writers even bother to read the article?
“Although US consumption of beef fell from about 80 pounds annually per capita in the 1970s and early ’80s to a low of 54 pounds in 2017, it’s steadily rebounded since then to 58.6 pounds in 2021.”
Rebounding to 3/4 the level of 40 years ago ain’t “more than ever.”
Wish I could afford beef.
I’ll have to settle for a double cheeseburger 🍔 from McDonald’s value menu.
So after it fell by a third it is now up a tenth—and they are claiming that it is more than ever?
Way to go, NYPost!
Math is racist.
The vegans what you to think there’s a trend ,LOL
I’ve been craving it more, so i’m making it more.
Being a vegan is not a trend. It’s something our communist government keeps pushing because they want us stupid and sick.
Veganism is a new faddish religion. The people that embrace it are hypocrites of the highest order.
They cry about "the poor animals" but work the honey bees to death so they can have their almonds.
They want to kill off natural animal habitat to feed their soy addiction.
fresh roadkill...
tonight it’s german shepherd pie...
It’s also possible that with improved efficiencies of inventory control, refrigeration monitoring and transportation we are now losing much less meat to spoilage and are actually eating more than ever.
If we’re not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
Click-bait 101
Sound logic.
I think some of it is the pro keto anti carb fad. I can’t wait to visit my first “Brazilian steakhouse” next week where they wheel trays of meats to the table. And my son when home from college on breaks eats nothing (really!) but Trader Joe’s $9.99/lb ribeye every night, 7 minutes per side on the grill.
lol
vegan trend?!
LMAO! only among the woke left trying to make a statement and feel special about themselves by dining themselves the best things in life.
Similar to those religious idiots who beat themselves with canes.
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