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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: the veggie debate
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 10:20 PM
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> this discussion, but when people were literally starving, that pig meant
life
> to their whole family.
Jane,
Your words here are very significant and they bring up my recent thoughts
lately about choices and surviving. I have been thinking about the
relationship of animals and of groups/tribes/people who regard certain
animals as being crucial to their survival and what all that means. I am
not expressing myself as cohrently as I wish I was tonight, but I guess I
am just trying to explore the significance, for example, of what buffalo or
deer meant to the Native American at one point in time. When an animal is
killed in their culture, it feeds many people, and its hide and bones are
used for practical purposes. I have also read about certain poor island
villages where whaling is allowed because one whale feeds so many people. I
am sure that I am not making much sense here, but I hope someone sees where
I am going with this....
