[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts fromApicius)

[Terry Decker]

I would point out that the regulation could be aimed at the deceitful 
practice of selling bad meat as good meat.  The idea of being cheated might 
be more abhorrent than the idea of eating rotten meat..

Bear


> If people complained sufficently to the authorities that they felt it 
> warranted a law prohibiting the practice of SELLING rotten meat, then it 
> may be reaonably inferred that people found the concept of EATING rotten 
> meat sufficiently abhorrent that they needed to get the authorities to 
> prevent the practice of selling it for consumption.
>
> Capt Elias