<p>What is politically incorrect food?
Can u explain why veal is one?
What other stuff falls into this category?</p>
<p>Baby cows die.</p>
<p>Ya, sunshineyday is right. Also I've heard the baby cows are tortured in some way before killed so...</p>
<p>Poor calves...I am by no means a vegetarian, but I won't eat veal...</p>
<p>what would other types of politically incorrect food be?</p>
<p>When we consume ruminating livestock (such as cows), we</p>
<p>1) let 90% of the energy the animal consumed go to waste -- the higher up in the food pyramid you eat, the more resources you use up. One consequence of this is that we use up earth's resources unwisely; it's a matter of feeding only one person when you could have fed 25 with the exact same amount of land used for livestock grazing.</p>
<p>2) why specifically ruminating livestock is bad for environmental sustainability: they release methane gas. Shortly put, they fart - a lot. Methane is one of the absolutely biggest greenhouse gases, and ruminating livestock (believe it or not) a greater cause of global warming than gasoline-driven cars.</p>
<p>I don't know exactly what you mean by "politically incorrect", but eating meat isn't as healthy or sustainable as pushing down the demand and thus production of it by cutting down on the meat content of your diet. If we truly want to change a situation where millions of people die from lack of access to basic food while we literally over-eat ourselves in the west, we have to start focusing on sustainable agriculture. Livestock should be only a small part of that.</p>
<p>As for moral animal rights issues involved, I honestly don't care, no matter how Bambi-eyed cattle get in PETA pictures. Not a sentimental person.</p>
<p>Poor calves...I am by no means a vegetarian, but I won't eat veal...
I find this rather hypocritical. Most animals are treated cruelly before they are killed for us to eat (unless you buy the meat at a special place, or you hunt your own food... Practically the only meet my friend eats is venison because her father hunts deer like crazy...)</p>
<p>That being said, I still eat meat.</p>
<p>However, when I get on my own, I plan on cutting back my meat consumption greatly, and mostly eating organic products and things bought from certain places where they don't treat the animals cruelly... If I have the money for it, that is... But if I don't have the money for it, I probably won't be eating much meat anyway, since meat is very expensive. But I plan on cutting back on my meat mostly for environmental persons... It'll be hard though...</p>