[Sca-cooks] Re: Cooking Cats

[Stephanie Ross]

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Padraig o Connell wrote:

Flaming, no.   However, as a Pagan who does eat meat, (and indeed, can't
ever be a vegetarian due to health reasons), I do have to raise an eyebrow
over the implied connection between Pagan and being a vegetarian.    I know
a lot of Pagans that are rampant carnavores - and a lot of vegetarians that
are Christian or other mainstream faith.

I chose to become veggie due to my pagan beliefs as well as becoming horrified over how dirty our food supply has become. Hormones are artificially injected into beef to make it tender (estrogen specifically, and we wonder why girls are getting their periods at 8 yrs old?), and animals are literally living on antibiotics because their living conditions are so appalling that they'd be dead without them. I refuse to put that crap into my body anymore. There is also the ecology issue of McDeath cutting down the rainforests so it can raise cattle to feed its slop to the world. As far as supply-side economics go, it is not a very good use of resources to use 8 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. The grain would feed a lot more people than the one pound of beef does. Plus there is variant Crutzfeld-Jacob disease that has jumped the species barrier through ingestion. Read John Robbin's book, _ Diet for a New America_. All the citations you'll need for confirmation are in the back of the book.

 I know few pagans, wiccans and the like who believe as I do, or eat as I do. It is a personal choice, and I was attempting to let people know that I was a pagan in mundane life (vs. my personas, who are both Christian).  I prefaced my remarks about Vietnam with "I heard", and it wasn't an anti-asian slur, because asians are not the only culture that makes its food animals suffer before killing them. The U.S. does it too. Nope, I have no proof that eating meat makes one more aggressive, but logically it would make sense from a hormonal perspective if nothing else.

Aislinn


"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil.  For what is Evil but Good -  tortured by its own hunger and thirst?  When Good is hungry, it seeks food , even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters." - Kahlil Gibran
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