If you come to a primitive community, like a medieval European town, an Arabian 7th century Rashidun desert camp or a 13th century Kamakura Japanese fishing village, where would you go for information? Who is the most knowledgeable person in the place? The priest of course!
The irony of it is that the most knowledgeable persons are the ones that most certainly would disagree with each other most vehemently if they met. One of the three priests might be right, but the remaining two would be liars. And they would still be the best source of information.
Do we have similar sources of information today? Discuss.
04 February 2010
Meat Eater to help the Animals
Me: Here you are, eating a big steak. I thought you were vegetarian.
Him: I was. But I realised that there were more important things in the world than my own health.
Me: Like...?
Him: Biodiversity. Imagine if everyone stopped eating meat. There are all those species that have been bread by humans for hundreds or even thousands of years with one single purpose: to be eaten. If we stopped eating them, species like farm pigs and broiler chickens would have nowhere to live, and we would lose them as species. The only way to make sure that they survive as a species is to eat them as individuals.
Me: I think I'll have a salad. I would not risk salad going extinct.
Him: I was. But I realised that there were more important things in the world than my own health.
Me: Like...?
Him: Biodiversity. Imagine if everyone stopped eating meat. There are all those species that have been bread by humans for hundreds or even thousands of years with one single purpose: to be eaten. If we stopped eating them, species like farm pigs and broiler chickens would have nowhere to live, and we would lose them as species. The only way to make sure that they survive as a species is to eat them as individuals.
Me: I think I'll have a salad. I would not risk salad going extinct.
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