You picture yourself as an American Indian.

Perhaps you are not totally on base.






----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne VanTassel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] a vegetarian paleo??


| At 01:46 AM 8/3/99 EDT, you wrote:
| >In a message dated 8/2/99 11:24:30 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
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| >writes:
|
| >There is a certain spirituality about eating vegetarian
that is
| >missing in carnivory.
|
| You you could claim so is only evidence of your extreme
alienation from the
| natural world.  (But, hey! Don't feel bad.  It's an
alienation shared by a
| good number of your fellow americans)  For some evidence
of hunters'
| spiritual connection to the natural world, other the work
Ray suggested,
| you might try (just off the top of my head)
|
| Bloodties:  Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote
| The Tender Carnivore & the Sacred Game by Paul Shepard
| The Contract of the Wild:  Why Animals Chose Domestication
(forgot the
| author and can't find it on my bookshelves)
| and of course, the classic:
|
| Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega y Gasset
|
| There is a spirituality to hunting.  Veggies simply have
an intense
| psychological need to deny it.