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		<title>Overcoming Africa&#8217;s Flesh Fetish: How A Vegan Diet Saved My Peace Corps Service</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>By Just a Pack contributor Amy Benson ​I’d read before coming that meat was a big deal, had steeled myself for potential hunger, awkward encounters, wider hips. Had attempted to comfort my previously ​​pescatarian, juice-obsessed self with the idea that it would be fresh, free roaming, grass fed &#8211; that the African version of myself, steeped in pink sunsets and newly barefoot, wouldn&#8217;t mind. ​Botswana exports only two things to any meaningful degree and these are diamonds and beef. Beef, flesh, chicken heads &#8211; these are things I’d read about, had prepared for. What I was not prepared for was that my first meal in this country would, indeed, include meat but that that meat would plop out of a faded red tin that read TEXAN BEEF and that this food product, in all of its gelatinous spam-like resilience, would hold the shape of its tin casing on my plate, which was also adorned with a mountain of dry white rice and a generous puddle of ketchup. ​The Peace Corps. I’d joined the Peace Corps and when one does this, she agrees to 27 months of limited options. In preparing to come, I understood this abstractly, assigned its significance to a future [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/overcoming-africas-flesh-fetish-how-a-vegan-diet-saved-my-peace-corps-service/">Overcoming Africa&#8217;s Flesh Fetish: How A Vegan Diet Saved My Peace Corps Service</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog">HappyCow</a>.</p>
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