Chicago (AP) - Holiday in Chicago this week from Europe, Jelle the Burger and Nirusa Naguleswaran took a bite on dog houses grill: a classic Italian sandwich with beef for him, grilled cheese for her.
Both think how their gender came up with their food choices was not coincidental.
"I don't want to say that male people feel attacked," said Naguleswaran from the Netherlands, laughing."We just have it in our nature to take care of others."
Now, scientists can say that gender and flesh -eating preferences are attached.developed.
Scientists already knew that men in some countries ate more flesh than women., they differ even more, with men who eat more meat and women who eat less.
It is important because about.20% of global greenhouse gas emissions of planetary heating come according to animals, according to animals, according to animals, according to animalsEarlier research from the University of Illinois.The researchers behind the new report are of the opinion that their findings are the efforts to convince people to eat less meat and dairy products.
"Everything that can be done to reduce meat consumption in men would have a greater influence on average than in women," said Christopher Hopwood, professor in psychology at the University of Zurich and one of the authors of the article.Mercy for Animals, a non -profit organization that focuses on ending expensive agriculture.Hopwood said he is not affiliated with the organization and is not a spokesperson.
AP -correspondent Ed Donahue reports about gender preferences when it comes to food.
The researchers asked more than 28,000 people in 23 countries on four continents, where many of different types of food ate them every day, and then the average national consumption of the country calculated by gender identity in every country., Educational and living standard, to rank how "developed" each country was, and then also on the Global Gender GAP Index, a scale of gender equality published by the World Economic Forum.
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They discovered that with three exceptions after - China, India and Indonesia - gender differences in meat consumption were higher in countries with higher development and results of gender equality.
The large number and cultural diversity of people studied is "a real strength of this," said Daniel Rosenfeld, a social psychologist at UCLA, who studies eating behavior and moral psychology and was not involved in the study.
The study did not answer the question why men tend to eat more meat, but scientists have some theories.searched for meat proteins that regard their history as hunters in some communities.
But even the idea of men like hunters is intertwined with culture, said Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld, who said he had no longer stopped eating meat. 10 years ago his own experience to hang at the university "as a man hanging with other men," illustrated the cultural pressure for men to meatto eat."" He said, "It can disrupt the natural flow of social situations."
The same cultural factors that form gender influence how people respond to new information, said Carolyn Semmler, professor of psychology at the University of Adelaide in Australia, who also eat meat and study social factors as gender.studied cognitive dissonance about eating meat.
In these cases she said that women who were presented to information about bad animal welfare in the cattle industry would rather say that they would reduce their meat consumption.But men gave the tendency to go the other direction, she said.
"A participant said to me," I think you try to let me eat less meat, so I want to eat more, "she said.
Semmler said that meat can be important for male identity and notes, for example the popular perception of men through the grill.Take into account how their food choices influence the planet.
But she and Hopwood acknowledged how difficult it is to change behavior.
"Men are a difficult need to crack," said Hopwood.
Jose Lopez, another dining room, knows Huisgrill, said he thought that men had to eat less meat, but said he generally observed otherwise.
"We are predators. Men eat like wild," he said.
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