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     Kommentar till en text av DAVE SACERDOTE
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 -=> Dave Sacerdote said to Jim Weller <=-
 DS> I have several friends who are vegetarians, others who eat
 DS> poultry and fish but won't eat "red meat", and still others
 DS> who are vegan.  Only one of them (not the vegan) has ever given
 DS> me a hard time about eating meat, but shut the hell up when 
 DS> I mocked her for her hypocrisy in favoring leather clothing.

But she shut up. Points for that.

 DS> My own personal philosophy is not, of course, anything like
 DS> vegetarianism.  However, I try to keep in mind that living
 DS> things were sacrificed to provide me with my food, and that has
 DS> led me over the years to be less wasteful (I try to utilize 
 DS> every bit of a cut of meat, for example, for one thing or 
 DS> another) and more demanding of humane treatment for food
 DS> animals.

I think that the mental gulf between farm and table, enforced
by boneless cuts in shrinkwrap and pretty colored advertising,
yields a number of unanticipated effects - the tendency to take
very cavalierly the fact that our life depends on other life,
with the corresponding tendency to wastage (perhaps not too
upsetting to the advertisers), as well as the extreme reverse
that occurs when people of greater sensitivity suffer the shock
from tumbling to the fact, leading to veganism and other kinds
of insanity.

 JW> In some stores, they experimented with
 JW> "lobster condos," filling tanks with stacks of large pipes the 
 JW> critters can crawl inside. And they moved the tanks behind 
 JW> seafood counters and away from children's tapping fingers.

Just crazy. These guys are empathic enough with the bugs to not
want to disturb their delicate nervous systems but not enough to
want to kill and eat them (or sell them for this purpose). Reminds
me of Roger Rosenblatt, who, when asked what he would have done if
Hitler had given a speech in his neighborhood, said, I'd let him
give his speech. Then I would have killed him.

 DS> Large pipes.  If their lobsters are taking up residence in the
 DS> tanks so long that they need condos, they need to hire buyers
 DS> who can better judge the turnover so they're not buying so many.

Indeed.

 DS> And the really humane thing to do would be FEED the lobsters
 DS> in the holding tanks.  Strange that no one ever thinks of that, 
 DS> huh?  

Back in the olden days, when crustaceans lived for a while in
these tanks, occasionally they would be treated to a nice piece
of herring now and then.

 JW> Animal rights activities were thrilled with the decision, 
 JW> not just because of the way lobsters are harvested, shipped 
 JW> and stored but because of the fate that awaits many of them 
 JW> - being dropped alive into a pot of boiling water. "The ways 

This means that they are looking forward to the day when
killing bugs becomes illegal. They'll end up living on
weeviled biscuits if their logic ends up persuasive.

 JW> that lobsters are treated would warrant felony cruelty to
 JW> animals charges if they were dogs or cats," said Bruce 
 JW> Friedrich, a spokesman for People for the Ethical 
 JW> Treatment of Animals.
 DS> Except they're not dogs or cats, with well-developed central
 DS> nervous systems, they're big bugs with tiny little sandbags

Except that would it make a difference if they had a better
developed central nervous system? I say it shouldn't.

 -=> Dave Sacerdote said to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Nope. They don't exploit animals in any way or starve cute 
 JW> little calves by stealing their food. They don't even eat honey.
 DS> Yes.  How sad.

Veganism is a sad philosophy in itself.

 JW> Feel free to substitute nutritional yeast fillets if you're 
 JW> feeling guilty....
 DS> I can't bring myself to butcher the innocent single-celled critters.
 DS> I'm afraid I'll just have to live on pure, clean air.

Breatharianism is the logical conclusion. And then only if
you wear a micropore mask to prevent as many little critters
as possible from being sucked in by our great vacuum cleaner
lungs. One of those Indian sects actually advocates this.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Carrot Soup
 Categories: Soup, Vegetable
      Yield: 4 cups

      1 lb Carrots; peeled and sliced
      1 md Onion; chopped
      1 cn (14.5-oz.) Vegetable broth
      1 c  Fat-free ricotta cheese or
           -whipped low-fat cottage
           -cheese
        x  Fresh dill sprigs (optional)

  1.  In 4-quart saucepan, combine carrots, onion and broth.  Cover and
  heat to boiling over high heat.  Reduce heat to low and simmer
  carrots until tender--about 15 minutes.

  2.  Remove saucepan from heat, uncover and cool carrot mixture 10
  minutes. If desired, set aside about 8 carrot slices for garnish.

  3.  Pour carrot mixture into electric blender or food processor fitted
  with chopping blade.  Cover and blend mixture on low speed or pulse on
  processor until finely chopped.  Increase speed to medium and blend or
  process until smooth.

  4.  Stop the blender or processor and add cheese to carrot mixture.
  Cover and blend or process carrot soup on medium to high speed until
  cheese is smooth.  Pour into large bowl and garnish with reserved
  carrot slices and dill sprigs, if desired, and serve.

  Per 1-cup serving:  PROTEIN 8g; FAT 1g; CARBOHYDRATE 16g; FIBER 4g;
  SODIUM 729mg; CHOLESTEROL 3mg; CALORIES 107; VITAIMIN A 3,196 retinol
  equivalents.

  From:  COUNTRY LIVING magazine, 8/94.

  Meal-Master format provided by iRis gRayson.

MMMMM

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