I heard Monday on National Public Radio that the German Government has officially asked Germans to reduce their consumption of meat. They said that the average German's diet consists of 39% meat and the average Italian diet consists of 24% meat. The keeping of livestock to feed the Germans was creating too much methane gas in the form of farts. They wanted the German people to emulate the eating habits of the Italians. I had to wonder if I was listening to a Saturday Night Live skit or something but it was real.