[FairfieldLife] Re: Cultural history of vegetarianism
In the Pre-Civilisation days 10,000 years ago, Canibalism was rampant throughout the World. Tribes living in isolation were more likely to kill and eat anyone not a part of their tribe. Then as Settlements became more organised and defined, Human Sacrifices were rampant all over the World. Sacrifical Human blood flowed like rivers in Central American and South American tribes. Evidence for Human Sacrifices exists even in Ancient Europe. Then as Settlements grew into Civilisations, Slavery and Slave-trading became rampant and other Superstitions began to take hold. Witch hunting in Europe, Female Circumscision in Middle-east and N-Africa, Sati and Devadasi system in india, Foot-binding in China, etc etc. Today, Pollution of the Eco-System, Destruction of Forests, Large scale Corruption, Mis-information and False Probaganda in media, etc etc Therefore, We can see a gradual refinement and Purification in Human Consciousness and Human Evolution. Maharishi says Heaven on Earth is possible. bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:53:32 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cultural history of vegetarianism If history teaches us anything, it's that today's habit may be tomorrow's abomination. What people saw as a matter of course in the streets of 17th-century London -- rich men beating their servants, crowds gathered in a festival mood to watch bloody executions -- would horrify the pedestrian of 2007. Morality, too, has a history, but the people of any given period usually don't see it that way. They think that they already have a pretty solid understanding of right and wrong (even if they find it difficult to be virtuous) and rarely imagine that future generations might view them as unenlightened at best and depraved at worst. Activists, on the other hand, know different. They count on the evolution of morality. Recently, Adam Hochschild's fascinating Bury the Chains chronicled the means by which a group of committed 18th- century idealists convinced their fellow citizens in Britain and America that slavery was an intolerable wrong. It wasn't easy, and it didn't happen overnight. Some people of that era thought that slavery was lamentable but intractable; others found it easy to justify an institution that brought them profits and comfort. Still others -- the majority, perhaps -- didn't give it much thought at all, as they sweetened their tea with sugar produced at brutal slave plantations on islands far, far away. For this reason, even an omnivore should find an intellectual history of vegetarianism interesting. We, like the people of the early 1800s, could be living through a period of slow but profound ideological change. To the people of their own time, men like Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson -- early abolitionists and the founders of the first human rights movement -- seemed as impractical, as demanding, as self-righteous and as obsessed as many animal rights activists seem to us today. In the future, right-thinking people might look back at us meat eaters with the same disapproval we heap on those who considered slavery acceptable 200 years ago. http://www.salon. com/books/ review/2007/ 01/25/stuart/ index.html - Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cultural history of vegetarianism
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Pre-Civilisation days 10,000 years ago, Canibalism was rampant throughout the World. Tribes living in isolation were more likely to kill and eat anyone not a part of their tribe. http://www.susiluola.fi/eng/index_eng.php :0
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cultural history of vegetarianism
In the Pre-Civilisation days 10,000 years ago, Canibalism was rampant throughout the World. Tribes living in isolation were more likely to kill and eat anyone not a part of their tribe. Then as Settlements became more organised and defined, Human Sacrifices were rampant all over the World. Sacrifical Human blood flowed like rivers in Central American and South American tribes. Evidence for Human Sacrifices exists even in Ancient Europe. Then as Settlements grew into Civilisations, Slavery and Slave-trading became rampant and other Superstitions began to take hold. Witch hunting in Europe, Female Circumscision in Middle-east and N-Africa, Sati and Devadasi system in india, Foot-binding in China, etc etc. Today, Pollution of the Eco-System, Destruction of Forests, Large scale Corruption, Mis-information and False Probaganda in media, etc etc Therefore, We can see a gradual refinement and Purification in Human Consciousness and Human Evolution. Maharishi says Heaven on Earth is possible. bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:53:32 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cultural history of vegetarianism If history teaches us anything, it's that today's habit may be tomorrow's abomination. What people saw as a matter of course in the streets of 17th-century London -- rich men beating their servants, crowds gathered in a festival mood to watch bloody executions -- would horrify the pedestrian of 2007. Morality, too, has a history, but the people of any given period usually don't see it that way. They think that they already have a pretty solid understanding of right and wrong (even if they find it difficult to be virtuous) and rarely imagine that future generations might view them as unenlightened at best and depraved at worst. Activists, on the other hand, know different. They count on the evolution of morality. Recently, Adam Hochschild's fascinating Bury the Chains chronicled the means by which a group of committed 18th- century idealists convinced their fellow citizens in Britain and America that slavery was an intolerable wrong. It wasn't easy, and it didn't happen overnight. Some people of that era thought that slavery was lamentable but intractable; others found it easy to justify an institution that brought them profits and comfort. Still others -- the majority, perhaps -- didn't give it much thought at all, as they sweetened their tea with sugar produced at brutal slave plantations on islands far, far away. For this reason, even an omnivore should find an intellectual history of vegetarianism interesting. We, like the people of the early 1800s, could be living through a period of slow but profound ideological change. To the people of their own time, men like Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson -- early abolitionists and the founders of the first human rights movement -- seemed as impractical, as demanding, as self-righteous and as obsessed as many animal rights activists seem to us today. In the future, right-thinking people might look back at us meat eaters with the same disapproval we heap on those who considered slavery acceptable 200 years ago. http://www.salon. com/books/ review/2007/ 01/25/stuart/ index.html - Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.
