At 12:25 AM 8/4/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/3/1999 5:09:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>>
>>  There is a spirituality to hunting.  Veggies simply have an intense
>>  psychological need to deny it.
>
>I agree with the first statement, not the second.  may be true for many, not
>true for me.  I also make the observation that there is little spirituality
>in going to the store and taking home a cello wrapped hunk of dead animal
>with no awareness of where and how that hunk came to be there.  For me, the
>key is awareness and appreciation, no mattter the food source.  to be
>consistent, whatever awareness and appreciation is tendered to flesh, should
>also be tendered to plants.  eco awareness and appreciation.

Your point is well taken, but as evidence of my second claim, consider the
squeels of denial posted here at my mention of the spirituality of hunting.