I have long chosen NOT to eat "Veal" ...

Human Beings do LOTS of puzzling Things, yes ... ??? (NOT all of them healthy or good ...)

May 6, 2012 -- 10:44PM, christine3 wrote:

May 6, 2012 -- 10:36PM, teilhard wrote:

I have long chosen NOT to eat "Veal" ...

Good on you! I think it has been outlawed because of the inhumane way they were raised. Driving through the midwest once I looked down an embankment and saw hundreds of baby calves chained to studs in the ground.  I didn't know what it was for.  I was told that they also are hoisted up and live hanging by their bellies all their lives until slaughtered.  For the life of me, I can't understand why humans do such things.  

That's an interesting point about gender politics, Rabello.  I hadn't thought of it that way, but it fits. 

As one author, Jacques Derrida, observed:

'In order to be recognized as a full subject one must be a meat-eater, a man, and an authoritative, speaking self.'

Another writer (Carol J. Adams) noted that meat eating was irreducibly linked to masculinity.  She goes on to say that 'what, or more precisely who we eat, is determined by the patriarchial politics of our culture, and the meanings attached to the meat eating include meanings clustered around virility.'

The message is that men are supposed to eat meat, and meat is associated with virility.

And at least one study backs that up.  According to a 1992 study by Vegetarian Times, of the 12 million Americans who call themselves vegetarians, 68% are female, while only 32% are male.  In other words, in the vegetarian world, women outnumber men two to one.

Women adopt vegetarianism at twice the rate of men, which may be due to the hierarchical way the gender roles are established.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_m...

This is an interesting article.  I'm not the only one who sees killing animals to eat their meat is the same as killing humans to eat their meat, though was was surprised to see it in print.  I guess I'm not alone.

Meat is meat.