SC - [fwd] Period Vegetarian
Charles McCathieNevile
charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au
Sun Feb 8 19:09:15 PST 1998
Lots of days were declared by the church to be fast days - no meat dairy
or eggs, although fish was usualy allowed. (_Apparently_ (which means I
was told by an unreliable or forgotten source) the Pope declared that
fowl were actually a type of fish. Mmmm, anybody want to come down the
beach with me? I'm going to catch some goose ;)
There were also ascetics, who lived on vege's on purpose. But I think the
idea was that it was not meant to be fun - so you make porridge, and eat
it, and make more - the theory is that suffering on earth gets you into
heaven faster.
Charles
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