Re: Marmite Crisps - Slightly pregnant

mb wrote:
On Jan 26, 7:44 am, Paul Wolff <bounc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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!

There is a fourth (and most probable): Cultural addiction to land
animal products: The original food culture of these people is not
well acquainted with the olivoil-vegetables-fish diet, or abhors it.
Children are fed land animal meat and fat from the start and get
hooked on it. Horror of horrors, they even eat their fish ("fish"
without bones or fish taste, things like salmon) with dairy!

Something like that for me. I stopped eating meat because I had found
out how the animals are treated but, in the first few years, I still
felt strong cravings for the stuff. Meat-like veggie food seemed to
help those, as did the too-frequent consumption of egg dishes (from
free-range hens). Now I could care very little less about meat,
although I'm still battling my dairy habit.

Those early cravings may account for another kind of attitude
complained of in this thread. When hungry, I found the smell of
cooking meat extremely tempting; since I had no intention of eating
any, I fought the feeling by thinking of (say) steak as corpseflesh,
heated until the corpse-juices ooze out and crust. Perfectly true;
but, if you used that technique too much. it might be off-putting with
respect to cross-contamination (which I don't care about -- the point
is not to keep yourself pure but to avoid, as much as possible,
complicity in industrial horrors visited on feeling creatures). It
may be why there's no chance of my starting meat again, although I
have in fact no objection to the idea of meat-eating if the animals
are raised and slaughtered in a carefully humane way.




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