5/6/97 This Weeks Topic: Meat

What would make an ordinary person consider eating meat. Sure we vegetarians sound like new age fruits, and maybe we are. But that is independent of the fact that we don't eat dead animal carcass. Consider this, when you see a dog mushed into the black and red pavement, (sorry to be so vivid but I'm proving a point) do you think, gross, that poor animal, or would I like fries with that? It's the same thing as going down to a fast food "restaurant" and ordering a long dead mammal carcass thrown into a pan full of pure fat, and burned into a state where it can be digested with enough ketchup by a greasy, pimply teenager getting paid minimum wage to save up for that prom he'll never go to. (sorry for the lack of commas)

Sure vegetarian family traditions may seem odd. When you take the worm and hook away from fishing it may seem like nothing more that sitting on a flotation device with a clear string hanging into brown water. There is more to it though. There is also the aspect of sitting silently with a man for several hours, not making any sound in fear of showing a lack of masculinity derived from an emotionless father who only spoke with his belt. (commas again, sorry.)

Hunting becomes getting lost in the woods and wearing colors that make you visible prey for giant mutant spiders. (the worst of the forest predators) Once again there is the aspect of trying to seem like the least scared of your buddies, in fear of being mocked.

In conclusion, it's fine if you wish to eat something that has eaten poo, rolled around in poo, sat in poo, and even slept in poo. But I wouldn't.

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