[Buddha-l] Re: "Nature" and eating meat

[Tom Troughton]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:05:20 -0600, Jim Peavler wrote:

>
>On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Stefan Detrez wrote:
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>> Cases of Westerners eating human flesh are scarce as far as I know.
>>
>
>Colorado has its cannibal. In 1873 he was with a party of prospectors 
>who got isolated by a blizzard not to far from Lake City, Colorado in 
>the San Juan Mountains. They never arrived at their destination, and 
>when Alfred was finally rescued it was discovered that he had eaten 
>some of his companions. It was later claimed that Alfred, a Democrat, 
>had eaten the only Republicans in the county. Alfred lived to be a 
>rather unhealthy old man.
>
>In the late 50s or early 60s sometime a group of us started a movement 
>to rename the student cafeteria at the University of Colorado, then 
>called the Indian Grill (this name would be outlawed by the NCAA I am 
>sure), to the Alfred Packer Memorial Cafeteria. We were not successful, 
>but serious-minded students within the next decade were finally 
>succeeded in this noble cause.

You know of course that in a thousand years or so, serious academics
are going to see this as evidence of transgressive morality in the
ruling elite.
-- 
Best wishes
Tom Troughton