[Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 09:36 AM 2/11/2005, you wrote:

>I've always thought the prohibition on diary was, knowlingly or not, 
>because young cows are born in the spring (unless man interferes) and the 
>milk is needed for the young.

Funny how that works, eh? Same with sheep and goats. IIRC, March is lambing 
season, and you have hugely gravid mothers or mothers with newborns, 
neither of which should be milked.

Johann, what about chickens? When I was a girl our neighbors usually let 
the hens set in the spring, but I don't have any idea if that was a period 
practice.

I'm not sure that a 'virtue of necessity' is necessarily what Lent is 
about, but if it happens out that way...

'Lainie
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