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“Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.”

Violence Eating Weapons Tables Remains Manners Aggressive Taboo Table Manners

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

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.”

Years Stills War Facts Home Today Left Wonderful Fronts Eating Europe Remains Borders Fifty Genocide Far Away Bosnians

Author:Slavenka Drakulic

“Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.”

World Ends Today Force Natural Animal Bears Eating Remains Dinner Gentle Meat Breakfast Farms Lions Lunch Vegan Plates Tigers Pointing Exploits Containing Wild Animal Meat Eating Dinner Plates

Author:Sharon Gannon

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”

Guy Music Creation Drama Essentials Eating Destruction Remains Guitar Tension Cheese Composition Improvisation Good Guy Maintenance Cottages Consonants Creation And Destruction

Author:Frank Zappa