AR-News: (Slovakia) The switch from red to green

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Eric Smillie
Spectator staff


SPANISH fruit and vegetables are now more readily available in eastern Europe 
than in the past. 
photo: Ján Svrček 


"IN SLOVAKIA, even the vegetarian food comes with bacon."
A sentiment often heard from foreign visitors, and not unjustly. To many 
native ears, the word "meatless" merely descri-bes a meal that does not feature a 
steak or chicken breast as its centrepiece.
Things might be changing, however. In the past year, truly vegetarian food 
has appeared at the top of the menus and advertised on the windows of at least 
four new restaurants in the country's capital. Interest in meatless diets is 
growing, and has been over the past decade through rebellions against both 
social norms and cardiovascular disease.
According to Live and Let Live, an animal and human rights group that favours 
a vegan diet (free of all animal products), 10 years ago there were less than 
100 vegetarians in Slovakia. Today, they make up as much as 1 percent of the 
adult population, or more than 70,000 people.




full story:

http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok-15124.html 

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