[Sca-cooks] Vegetarian politics aside.....

[John Kemker]

While I'm not finished quite yet with the article, I have found it to be a
very well-considered work.  It gives voice to my feelings concerning "moral
vegetarianism" and the contradictions therein.

Thank you very much for pointing me in its direction.

--Tiarna Cian O'Madadhain

----- Original Message -----
From: "moxy" <moxy at siempremail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Vegetarian politics aside.....


> Hello, all --
> I've just joined the list ... and I do mean *just*, to the point that I
> don't know what started the discussion on vegetarianism, nor how it
applies
> to creative anachronism ... but I thought some of those thinking about the
> emotion behind vegetarianism and meatarianism and everything between might
> find this interesting:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10ANIMAL.html
> (you have to register but it's free and I've yet to receive related spam)
>
> "An Animal's Place
> By MICHAEL POLLAN
> The first time I opened Peter Singer's ''Animal Liberation,'' I was dining
> alone at the Palm, trying to enjoy a rib-eye steak cooked medium-rare. If
> this sounds like a good recipe for cognitive dissonance (if not
> indigestion), that was sort of the idea. Preposterous as it might seem, to
> supporters of animal rights, what I was doing was tantamount to reading
> ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' on a plantation in the Deep South in 1852."
>
> The rest of the article looks at various arguments -- most of which either
> promote or refute the environmental and social benefits of
vegetarianism --
> from the many degrees of opinion. Interesting stuff, if you're so
inclined.
> *********
> Now, back to historic food ... what was "crumbly," back in 18th-century
> Britain?
> Mox
>
>
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