FRIEND OR FOE

Well it seems as though I have totally disenfranchised myself from many of the wimmin in the group, was not my intent, but so be it D.... did come to see me and we talked a long time about food, the attitudes surrounding food the pro and con of eating animals and not eating them the health aspects of it. She said somethings I had never considered: One when I have been told that the best food one can eat is a piece of good meat, good meat meaning any animal that was considered by those who grew me up as good meat the butt of a cow, the thyroid of an animal, the pieces of the animal that was considered choice, how can anyone expect or think that all of a sudden the eating of this animal is not acceptable..she spoke of growing up with a father who demanded that all his children had the very finest meat on the table, and all not only were expected to eat it but to show appreciation for it by saying prayer over it and give thanks for the preparation of it, and a mother who was devoted to pleasing her man husband and making good food for her family. She said how can I even bring myself to believe that eating meat is not good for me or correct to do. She said I cannot bring myself to call meat animal. She spoke of times as a little girl and latter as a young women her father berating her and her sister about not eating nor liking meat he had provided and for that act of disrespect, they (she and her sister) were made to go to their rooms without anything else to eat until they could be respectful and eat what had been provided for them. She said sometimes she and her sister both would wait as long as they could even though they were hungry, to show him they would not eat it, till mother would come and pleaded with them not to make their father angry, because he would take it out on her. She said she would listen as her father would negatively talk about them as girls as their mother and brothers would sit at the dinner and listen, and that whenever their mother would try and defend them their father would demand that both them and their mother leave the table until they could show some respect. As I listened to her I said to myself I am really lucky cause I think if I had had a father like this one If my mother did not poison him I would have.