When I was a kid, from a working class background, growing up in the 50's and 60's, meat (especially beef) was a costly thing to buy, something you only had on a Sunday, if you were lucky. Chicken was the more usual meat to have. We ate more offal in those days as well, as it was cheaper - liver, kidneys, brains, heart, tongue, cheeks, trotters, tripe, even lamb's testicles! Bones were boiled up (to provide stock for soup) and then given to the dog. Nothing was wasted.
Now, most people in the west can afford beef every day, so no one bothers with offal any more. I'm not saying we should go back to eating offal, but why are we so addicted to eating large quantities of prime meat every single day? Is it really necessary?
If we just cut back a little, and tried to eat locally produced meat from sustainable farms, rather than factory farmed meat, imported from thousands of miles away, it would make a difference.
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