Right now, she's working on a small hamburger-like patty made from coriander, white beans and lentils, cooked in oil, along with a sauce of yogurt and saffron or a mango relish. Over at KaDeWe, people are gobbling up other food options as well. People are seeing this as a reason to change their whole diet, and their whole approach to food. We have a special gourmet counter called the Potato Field, and people love it more than ever, of course. So we have to buy more and more potatoes.
Young people are the most apt to change their habits.
A lot of my friends don't eat meat any more. Still, established vegetarians are somewhat skeptical about the host of new converts to the cause of avoiding meat. Most people are concerned about their own health, and don't have much of a conscience about the pain animals have to suffer and the bad life animals have. If you try to be a vegetarian, you really have to be one from inside. I think some people who aren't eating meat now don't really mean it.