[Question] Was veganism historically a symbol of the middle class, in hierarchical societies?
I am shooting out a theory with no research to back this up, just going off inference. Tell me your thoughts on classist hierarchy as it relates to diet and whether this is correct:
Poor, lower class: lots of grain, carbs, relying on starchy foods. Wheat would have been the cheapest and easiest to cultivate.
Middle class: large scale or family scale organic vegetable and fruit gardening. You could feed a larger mass of people with large scale vegetable farming than you could with cattle farming - no?
Heavy meat and dairy: Upper middle class and higher.
Obviously, modern intervention and social structuring has changed this. But I’m asking about historical times (can’t put a date on it). I always heard that meat was reserved for the aristocrats during such times.
All that being said, if we go based off the theory that diets should accommodate lifestyle, what would be the ideal diet for someone who works an 8-hr desk job (sitting down most of the day), drives a car to work, and perhaps only gets 30 min of gym exercise per day (if even that).
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