SC - Re: "cruel food"

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/6/99 8:59:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mbrunzie at dba-sw.com writes:

<< Then too, I've heard (note: I have NO proof of this!) that geese were not
 considered meat in the MAs because they were thought to "hatch" from goose
 neck barnacles...  Of course, anyone who raised geese would surely know
 that wasn't the case!
  >>

This was a specific species of goose not all geese. Certainly sea mammals 
were considered as 'fish' and I have heard that embryo rabbits were also 
non-meat but I don't recall ever actually seeing it in period manuscripts 
that I am aware of.

Ras

Ras
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