Go to Loosely Speaking
- Add a comment
- Go to Food for thought: eating with the mind
That sounds like a very interesting course your daughter is taking. I probably would have tried to take it if it had been offered Loyola College when I was there.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 20, 2015 at 5:33 AM
| link to this | reply
I am so glad I became a vegetarian over 40 years ago...I have many people make fun of me or what I eat but it's all good.
posted by
Annicita
on July 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM
| link to this | reply
well I am almost totally off hamburgers....so I am happy about that. I never really enjoy one and since I read their salt content, I feel I don't need one of those. the fridge is full of salad makings and fruit at present but also chicken meat. Poor chookies.
posted by
Kabu
on July 19, 2015 at 4:53 PM
| link to this | reply
Of course a lot may be decided by imagination. If one has not not got much of one
it is possible to view chunks of dead animals as something unrelated to its original form.
I suspect the only way to make the majority of folk to give up things is too make it
too expensive to even contemplate buying the product. Of course one must offer a suitable alternative or pets would disappear.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM
| link to this | reply
Re: thanks, Krisles!
Yes, this is not just about food!
It is also very much a process of social pressures that changes the actions and convictions of those who care more about what society thinks than even what they themselves want or believe. After all, acceptance from one's community is very much about survival, and survival-rooted issues are the most powerful.
That's a whole level of evolvement in the path from infancy to adolescent to adulthood to true maturity. Or from Self, to Family, to Community, to finally--Everything!
posted by
Ciel
on July 19, 2015 at 8:30 AM
| link to this | reply
Ciel
As usual, excellent observations and so wisely worded. One only has to recall the days of smoke filled rooms nearly everywhere you went........and now when if you spend any time around an office building you will see the little groups of smokers in their small, defined areas.....sometimes looking like a cross between refugees huddled together for security and bad children sent to the corner...go see the truth in these lines I particularly liked:
Changing what a society does starts with changing what individuals do. Once enough individuals make a shift, the balance tips and society changes generally.
posted by
Krisles
on July 19, 2015 at 7:24 AM
| link to this | reply