SC - Re: "cruel food" (Long)
Cindy Renfrow
renfrow at skylands.net
Wed Jul 7 18:17:38 PDT 1999
In a message dated 7/6/99 10:49:05 PM EST, LrdRas at AOL.com writes:
<< n 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 >>
And then there was the beaver -- whose tale was considered fish while the
rest of him was considered meat.
Magherita the weaver
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