[Reader-list] Buff or beef?

[Aman Sethi]

This has got to be the most bizzare response i have recieved in my
life .... am not sure what Tapas's point is, especially the bit about
spinach, fermented soya bean (tofu?) and asoka's india ...

what i am sure about is that i am deeply suspicious of is those who
want others to join them in condeming something or someone -like a
sort of cluster-fuck of condemnation.
And peace be with you too
A.

On 12/27/06, Tapas Ray <t.ray at vsnl.com> wrote:
> Peace be with you, Aman, and thank you for sharing that Salon piece.
>
> We, the peaceful fish, cow, fermented soya bean, buffalo, goat, spinach,
> sheep, swine, dog (yes, dog), deer (illegally), pike (illegally), pigeon,
> chicken, larvae (yes, larvae), snail, snake gourd, and maybe snake eaters of
> India, gave ourselves on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, that
> admirable document
> which did not bar us from eating anything or anyone. However, we have never
> mistaken
> liberty for licence, and (hopefully) stooped so low as to feed ducks with
> tubes. We have always killed peaceably, in a humane manner. That is the
> difference between Asoka's India and New Jersey, Garden State of America,
> aka America's armpit on account of the smells emanating from its varied
> chemical factories.
>
> So please join me in condemning those insensitive wannabe-French Americans
> of New York, not to speak of the French themselves - although they are so
> anti-American and so philosophical and so postmodern, maybe even
> postpostmodern - who can be so cruel to ducks for a moment's gastronomic
> pleasure.
>
> Peace!
>
> Tapas
>
> > Personally, i have no beef with either vegetarians or cow eaters, but
> > i would urge those interested to read an Anthony Bourdain interview "I
> > want my foie gras" on salon.com ... you can read it here
> > http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/10/05/ruhlman_bourdain_foie/index.html
> >
> > A.
>
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