Re: Policy statement

Charles Kooij wrote:

Dione Lucas, right? Not his personal shef, but a hotel chef in Hamburg
in the 30s who used to prepare his then favourite dish - stuffed squab.

This was before he 'came out' as a vegetarian in '37. Now, I fully agree
that it wasn't ethical vegetarianism, but purely dietary because eating
meat and other rich foods gave him stomach cramps, but the fact remains
that he was a vegetarian after '37.

Now, Willy Kannenberg, his real personal chef and a bit of a comedian
was a renowned vegetarian chef, although he was known to dabble in a bit
of fish cooking. So maybe Hitler was a pesco-vegetarian, although no
actual proof exists to confirm or deny that other than the man's own
statements. Statements such as referring to chicken soup as 'cadaver
tea'?

Or saying: "the world of the future will be vegetarian" -- Adolf Hitler,
November 11, 1941.

And, while on a date where his partner ordered sausage: 'Go ahead and
have it, but I don't understand why you want it. I didn't think you
wanted to devour a corpse... the flesh of dead animals. Cadavers!'"

Not the sort of thing a non-vegetarian would come out with.


According to the historian Robert Payne, Hitler's supposed vegetarianism was a myth propagated by Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda), who wanted a public perception of Hitler as an ascetic. Although Hitler generally avoided meat (stomach problems) Willy Kannenberg reportedly still prepared dishes such as Bavarian susage and caviar for him.

The problem is that the majority of 'Hitler wasn't a vegetarian'
information comes from pro-vegetarian sources, ones who seem to find it
hard to believe that one person's dietary habits reflect on the
character of others who share those habits. I find this rather immature.

I don't much care whether Hitler was a vegetarian or not (at best it seems to have been phases of partial vegetarianism, if that means anything). The main problem is the ceaseless and rather pathetic taunting from meat-eaters who like to present this bigus "fact" as if it somehow discredits vegetarianism (and similarly for animal rights - Hitler was opposed to vivisection too). As a result, the "Hitler was a vegetarian" meme mutliplies, and it's this that pisses me off.

Paul
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