<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>africa Archives - HappyCow</title> <atom:link href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/tag/africa/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link></link> <description>Find Vegan Food + Community</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:05:57 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>https://www.happycow.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-hc-favicon-logo-32x32.png</url> <title>africa Archives - HappyCow</title> <link></link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>Overcoming Africa’s Flesh Fetish: How A Vegan Diet Saved My Peace Corps Service</title> <link>https://www.happycow.net/blog/overcoming-africas-flesh-fetish-how-a-vegan-diet-saved-my-peace-corps-service/</link> <comments>https://www.happycow.net/blog/overcoming-africas-flesh-fetish-how-a-vegan-diet-saved-my-peace-corps-service/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[JustaPack]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:26:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Veganism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[botswana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[diet]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.happycow.net/blog/?p=10654</guid> <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 – that the African version of myself, steeped in pink sunsets and newly barefoot, wouldn’t mind. Botswana exports only two things to any meaningful degree and these are diamonds and beef. Beef, flesh, chicken heads – 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 […]</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’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> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.happycow.net/blog/overcoming-africas-flesh-fetish-how-a-vegan-diet-saved-my-peace-corps-service/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss> <!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/ Page Caching using Disk: Enhanced (Page is feed) Lazy Loading (feed) Served from: www.happycow.net @ 2025-01-09 11:44:30 by W3 Total Cache -->