Bruce,
thanks for writing up the raw foods thing, i find the whole subject
fascinating, have read levi-strauss, different book, cant remembeer the
name..goes into the status symbol of meat with regards to sex, power, poor,
and so on.
Also, thinking about food as a status symbol, when people of 3rd world
countries spend their entire wage on a bottle of coke..... Advertising and
multi nationals like Mac Donalds are to blame here. The wealthy west suffer
from all forms of dietary disease, heart attack, bowel cancer and so forth
because of our 'addiction' to meat.
'Beyond Beef' by Jeremy Rifkin is a good read as well, especially with
regard to using pasture to produce food that is at the same time destroying
the land.
cheers
karyn
>From: "\(Robert\) Bruce Reyburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [recoznet2] Access to raw foods, versus cooked.
>Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 10:29:18 +1000
>
>EATING AS MORE THAN SATISFYING A SIMPLE APPETITE
>
>Eating is a highly cultural event and we eat far more than the mere
>messages of nutrition. We define ourselves all the time by what we eat and
>what we eat in comparison to others, and where we are seen to be eating.
>Food has been used as a means of control in many different ways over a long
>time. Sometimes I regret ever having become domesticated, Pet.
>
>It would be a form of discrimination for sure to reserve for one part of
>society refined and processed foods which are priced just out of reach of
>people on low incomes. I acknowledge that, but i am also pessimist in that
>we can do much to change that at this moment. Later, perhaps.
>
>Added to this is the very clear form of eating by low-income people who
>will buy processed food (hot chips, pie, coke) as soon as they get some
>money. Packet of fags as well. It is probably a form of compensating for
>going without and being mariginalised. You know you are broke when you
>haven't got a smoke. Solution is not to tax raw food, but to empower
>people.
>
>Eating meat is another area where social considerations are paramount. This
>is found worldwide (see Levi-Strauss "The raw and the cooked"). We superior
>forms of life eat the flesh of others, it is true, but WE eat it cooked
>(and others don't)!
>
>So, eating meat is in a cultural category which is important to many
>people, irrespective of the soundness of the reasoning of vegans in
>defence of lifeforms who are otherwise excluded a voice. But i don't feel a
>compelling need to argue the case of keeping mass produced meat GST free.
>The whole meat processing industry is on the nose (with the exception of
>some organic producers and the few pastoralists who acknowledge and
>embrace the co-existence of native title).
>
>GST free raw fruit and vegetables, nuts, grains and lentils etc (plus wheat
>and rye flour to make bread) strike me as being some kind of minimum
>necessity for people who are not only on low incomes but who will also not
>have their "incomes" adjusted upwards to compensate for the latest taxation
>experiment.
>
>Where did i put that copy of the Hard Times Handbook?
>
>Bruce
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