[Steppes] Living in the Past....Could you really do it??

[Vicki Marsh]

Ummmm. Gabrielle,
 (I can't help myself....I'm a Laurel)

There *were* vegetarians in period.

There were "heretical", dualist christian sects who chose to forsake meat
and sex, among other things. The Albiginsians and the Bogomils were two of
them.

Physicians would often prescribe vegetarian diets for gout sufferers.

There are other examples, of course:)

Xene




-----Original Message-----
From: steppes-bounces+xaraxene=comcast.net at ansteorra.org
[mailto:steppes-bounces+xaraxene=comcast.net at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of
Jann Mays
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:57 AM
To: Barony of Steppes - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Living in the Past....Could you really do it??


Ughhh.  That really lends credibility to the SCA motto, "We live not as it
was, but as it should have been." (or something like that).  I think I would
have become a vegetarian really quick.  It wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the herbalists back then stuck to eating plantlife and leaving meats
alone.
Gabrielle

Su

HL Gabrielle Honorie de Saint Pierre

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998.



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