[Sca-cooks] vegetarian was non-sweet Elizabethan dishes

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

 a lot of people  consider vegetarianism as the ethical thing to do
BECAUSE there are "people starving in China", or wherever.

it is not the cure all that some make it out to be.. but a lot of people
think that the choices we make... in our diet. or gasoline consumptions,
etc...is very important.

how on earth is my eating a factory raised....... it eats two to five pounds
of top value human food quality grain for every pound of meat... beef cow
going to help feed the starving people in the third world?

i would expect i would do better to eat the one pound of grain and legumes
and NOT encourage factory farming.... industrial waste.... erosion..... and
all the other oproblems modern farming methods of raising meat can cause.

i am not a vegetarian. partly because i have food allergies that would make
that really difficult.. .. but it seems that the "people are starving"
argument is in FAVOR of vegetarianism. not the other way around

and whats it to you anyway? if someone has made an ethical decision to not
eat meat. more power to them!
Kirsten
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
http://www.fabricdragon.com

"Did you vote?  No?   Then don't come whining to me...."
----- Original Message -----
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] non-sweet Elizabethan dishes


> > of control. I'm sorry, but this is a hot point with me - a good quarter
of
> > the human race would gladly beg abjectly, cry copious tears for your
> > leftovers, and yet we have people who go 'eew! I'm not eating THAT, it
was
> > produced by a cruel production method!'.
> >     I think Vegans and other 'ethical' types need to travel a bit; see
> > swollen bellies and whithered limbs. I think they need to see 60 pound
> > corpses going into mass graves. I think they need to see what survival
is as
> > opposed to effete snobbery.
>
> Siegfried, I very seldom do this to anyone, but I think you need to read
> _Diet for A Small Planet_
>
> I personally hate the book, and think it's pretty out of date in its
> information. But if you really can't understand that some people do know
> that the beef industry they support by eating beef is using up grain that
> people in developing countries would cry for, you really know nothing.
>
> I don't care if you agree with them about whether supporting U.S. farming
> practices by being a consumer actually encourages wasting of food, but for
> Herne the Hunted's sake come down off your effete
> more-politically-correct/incoorrect-than thou soapbox and realize that WE
> have choices that starving peoples don't, and some people choose to put
> their bellies-- and their funds-- where their principles are, even if they
> can't do anything else.
>
> I realize that you may be so muzzy-headed that you believe that eating
> factory veal somehow improves the lot of the starving peoples, but  I
> can't figure out how.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "I used to be one of them. Now I rather think I'm one of me." -- Terry
> Prachett, _Thief of Time_
>
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