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Choice of eating meat or not
guided by taste, values, diet
The Atkins low-carb diet
has changed eating habits,
but some people choose
to stick to a meat-free lifestyle
By Jennifer Sudick
Freelance Editor
From widespread protein-rich diets
to the ongoing mad cow scare to Mc
Donald's new all-white-meat chicken
nuggets, meat — and the controversy
surrounding it — has helped shape
American nutritional values.
The Atkins "very-low" carbohy
drate diet plan has made its mark in
fast food restaurants such as Subway
with its "Atkins Friendly" chicken
bacon wrap, in bookstores with a
multitude of guidebooks and cook
books, and in supermarkets with
Atkins brand sugar-free pancake
syrup and barbecue sauce.
The diet, which touts proteins and
fats as weight-loss substitutes to
processed and refined carbohy
drates, has often been portrayed as
synonymous with a butter-laden
red-meat-eating lifestyle, according
to http://www.atkins.com. However,
the Web site attempts to debunk this
perception with its article, "Doing
Atkins Is Not Synonymous with Eat
ing Red Meat," which states: "It is
not advisable to eat steak every day.
Variety is what makes food interest
ing. There are plenty of other deli
cious ways to get the protein and di
etary fat you need. In fact, plenty of
people do Atkins without eating red
meat or pork."
The Atkins Web site enthusiasti
cally advocates eating cold-water
fish, such asgtuna, salmon and sar
dines, twice1| week. Other red meat
alternatives, Including turkey and
chicken, also work as long as they
aren't in "nugget" form.
"Abstaining for ethical or religious
reasons is an understandable choice
... if you're not eating meat because
you're worried about saturated fat and
cholesterol, your concern may well be
misplaced," the Atkins article states.
However, response to the diet has
been varied. In Rome last week, pasta
manufacturers and chefs gathered to
protest the diet in the wake of de
creased sales of traditionally high-car
bohydrate foods.
Susan Toussaint, director of market
ing for the American Italian Pasta Com
pany of Kansas City, Mo., told The New
York Times on Feb. 11 that her compa
ny saw a 5 percent decline in grocery
store pasta sales during the past year.
Lauren Wimer Photographer
Despite the mad cow scare, beef is still popular thanks to diets like Atkins.
"Pasta's getting lumped in the same
category as Krispy Kreme," she said.
"It’s not fair. All carbohydrates are not
created equal."
For some, the decision to eat se
lect meats or refrain from eating
meat altogether has religious or cul
tural influences.
"(The) Chinese have a traditional
notion that foods that are 'warming' in
nature, like meat, are important for
building up physical strength; so in the
minds of some of the older generation,
one could not possibly get all the nutri
tion one needed from the "cool" bean
greens, white radishes, and so forth that
vegetarians favor," author Lin Ching
Shywan wrote in "Vegetarian Cooking
— Chinese Style."
Shywan wrote that she became a
vegetarian because of her belief in
Buddhism, not because of a healthy
lifestyle. She added that many Bud
dhists advocate vegetarianism because
of their belief in having mercy for oth
er living creatures.
According to "Diet for Transcen
dence," by author Stephen Rosenln,
traditional Hindu scripture dictates
that products of the cow, including
milk, curd, urine and dung, are puri
fying because the cow is considered a
sacred animal. The Hindi word for
cow is "aghnaya," which means "not
to be killed," but cow dung is still
used as an inexpensive fertilizer and
for heating and cooking.
In the Jewish religion, several meats
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