The Omnivorous Vegetarian

No food blog would be complete without talking about eating morals. Mostly it's just a lot of self-righteous hooey and chest thumping but at the core there is a key moral question.

Is it right to kill animals for your pleasure?

If you believe not then the logic is pretty darned clear.

If you believe it is then you must accept the premise that you may not waste any of it. Eat the nasty bits, so to speak. Hence, tripe, hearts, lungs, livers and the whole head-to-tail thing.

This is the injection of the vegetarian moral position into the omnivorous debate. Kill but waste not. A perfectly logical position that traditionally hss homes in as disparate places as Italy and China.

The CC is an omnivore. However, he is intelligent enough to recognize the "other" position.

What baffles him is the in-between position - "I'll eat this but not that."

This isn't preference which is natural. "I hate everything Egyptian", Goethe once said. That is taste. This is fear. And being scared of food is a horrible horrible thing.

So pick a side, any side. It just doesn't matter (except to you.)

But be consistent.