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It's been a long time since I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but one of the things that struck me at the time was how concerned the narrator was wi
by wpietri 3y ago
It's been a long time since I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but one of the things that struck me at the time was how concerned the narrator was with how everything tasted. It was released 10 years after On the Origin of Species, so I imagine we had yet to develop a food supply stable and generous enough that most people would be happy to let all that good protein just keep wandering around in the wilderness. As the line goes, "If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
- tough 3y agoWe're made of meat too tho...
- supazek 3y agoSpeak for yourself
- tw04 3y agoAnd there's more than one culture that applied that rule to us.
- PakG1 3y agoAnd a number of pathological individuals within cultures that don't apply that rule to us.
- rspk 3y agoThey're Made out of Meat: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
- 2023throwawayy 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg&t=360s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg&t=360s
- DonHopkins 3y agoTo paraphrase Flanders and Swan: "If God didn't mean for poor people to eat rich people, he wouldn't have made them of meat." Flanders and Swan: The Reluctant Cannibal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw
- fsckboy 3y agoI guess a play on Jonathan Swift's 1729 A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
- miah_ 3y agoSome people eat people. There was a guy who had a foot amputation and made it into taco's for his friends.
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