[Reader-list] Buff or beef?

[S.Shashidhar]

Looks like the joke turned on me! 

I was at the Ardh Kumbh, where i met people who eat all kinds of things, some of them true other so much like me. But BOSS Tapas, there was this whole crowd of people from Germany , who live on only an apple a day and there was a certain head of the congregation who had not consumed any food or water in the last so many years. And these were not like the indian joker fakir's they lead very productive capitalist lives. Working in factories and schools. 

It is possible to live without many things, least of all food... untill we find the way let us all hunt and gather

Getting a little fatter by the day 

Shashi

----- Original Message ----
From: Tapas Ray <t.ray at vsnl.com>
To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 6:35:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Buff or beef?


You are forgetting field rats. I have seen their meat hung out to dry from 
clotheslines in certain villages. As for human blood, before trying it, 
remember what Idi Amin is supposed to have said about human flesh - that he 
doesn't eat it, because it's too salty. Better still, ask oldtimers in a 
certain part of our country where, I believe, ritual cannibalism was 
practised in the past.

I suppose most people eat to live, not live to eat ... hence consumption (in 
the narrow, literal sense of eating) is for life, not the other way round. 
If there is a way to live without eating any living thing, whether plant or 
animal, I am sure many of us will gladly do so. Meanwhile, let us carry on 
joking or, even better, killing one another, over what we eat or do not eat.

From: "S.Shashidhar" <iwasthere2000 at yahoo.com>
> life is ment for consumption, let us all eat meat and drink human blood, A 
> cow is holy so it should be > spared but a poor goat can and will be 
> eaten, there are a lucy few in the south who can eat cows.. Man > thi was 
> one grose thread


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