Louis-Philippe of France
By Graham Cameron | Apr 13, 2007
“and a night come when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.”
Louis-Philippe of France, quoted in Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (page 51)
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Jayne Tite
April 13th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Google is your friend. It takes time, but far far less than it takes to re-establish an endangered species.
Personally I have a policy of not killing any creature, deliberately.
Jayne Tite
UVGrimace
April 18th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Could you write a piece for people like me who are interested in the challenge of a “death-less” garden? I am open the fact that I may lack imagination in this area, and would like to read your thoughts.
Tintin
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Write something for me too. To exist is to consume, it seems to me, and that typically means I have to kill to eat, much like the rest of the natural world around me. There’s still an intensely ethical dimension as to how we might do this as justly and humanely as possible. I’m interested in what others have to say about the ethics of eating and how it might relate to our Christian faith…