Re: Marmite Crisps - Slightly pregnant

tony cooper <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

This is the one thing that bothers me about vegetarianism based on an
abhorrence of eating an animal killed to feed that person. They avoid
meat, but buy products or order dishes that are designed to resemble
meat.

At http://www.lightlife.com/healthyyou.jsp they advertise a product
dog that looks like a hot dog but is made with vegetarian-acceptable
products.

If a person objects to eating a dead animal on a bun, then why does
the person want to pretend they are eating a dead animal on a bun and
look like they are eating a dead animal on a bun?

I've often eaten in the cafeteria at Florida Hospital (A Seventh Day
Adventist facility). Meat is not served in the cafeteria, but many of
the food items are cleverly designed to look like a meat
product...chicken that isn't chicken, sausage that isn't pork,
hamburgers that are not made of beef, etc.

I don't understand this.

There is one possible explanation, and that is protective colouring. Veggies may feel so vulnerable to the verbal assaults of aggressive carnalists that some may need to hide their private affectations when in public places by seeming to blend in with the normals.

And they may be instinctively ashamed of their practice.

There are two possible explanations, protective colouring and shame. Who can blame the weak for trying to hide their weakness? As the alcoholic may indulge her craving by consuming miniature after miniature liqueur with the outward appearance of harmless chocolate, avoiding any suspicion of her indulgence, so the soya-addict hides her shame by slavering over a hearty burger look-alike.

And then there's the fifth column approach, where the enemy within strives to trap and ensnare honest meat-eaters into unwitting veggiedom.

There are three possible explanations: protective colouring, shame, and an insidious attempt to play the serpent in Eden. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and veggiemites shalt thou eat all the days of thy life!
--
Paul
In bocca al Lupo!
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