Food, Like Sex, Is One Of The

I Don't See How You Can Write Anything Of Value If You Don't Offend Someone.

There Are Very Important And Practical Issues Raised By Following This Alternative Route Which Says, Lets Look To Material Conditions, To The Systems Of Production, To The Needs That Human Beings Have, And To Competing Alternative Solutions To The Satisfaction Of Those Needs.

Hindus And Westerners Alike See In The Meat-eating Taboos Of India A Triumph Of Morals Over Appetite. This Is A Dangerous Misrepresentation Of Cultural Processes. Hindu Vegetarianism Was A Victory Not Of Spirit Over Matter But Of Reproductive Over Productive Forces.

But With The Industrial Revolution And Introduction Of Various Industrial Techniques For Purifying Sugar, We Have A Situation In Which What We Are Consuming Is Not Good Nutritionally Or Ecologically.

I Don't Know Of Any Cases Where As A Result Of Religious Precepts A Population Have Found Themselves Enjoying Less Food Than They Would Have If They Didn't Follow This Particular Religion.