A new study may reveal why men are generally more reluctant to
eat vegetables.  A group of researchers from the University of
Pennsylvania, Louisiana State University, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill and Cornell University found that men,
particularly men from western countries, generally associated
meat with masculinity and vegetables as “weak and wimpy”.  The
researchers analyzed the results from a number of experiments
that studied metaphors and certain foods, like meat and milk,
and found that people generally rated meat as more masculine
than vegetables.   Not only do people more masculine words when
talking about meat, people also perceived meat eaters as being
more masculine than non-meat eaters.  The study authors also
analyzed 23 different languages with gendered pronouns and found
that meat was related to the male gender in most languages.  "To
the strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing, All-American
male, red meat is a strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing,
All-American food," the