“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.” PeopleShouldPersonsHappensAnimalBehindsFireProduceEatingDeterminationTablesCookingKillingTreatedMannersMeatVegetablesDishesTornEtiquetteChewingDiners Book:The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
“This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.” PeopleWorldMindAnimalSacrificeModernFoodConceptsSacredWesternDinnerBeastSecularOrganizeShockingConsumedCarnivores Author:Margaret Visser
