[MD] Food for Thought

[ian glendinning]

Hi Dan, and DMB, Arlo, etc.

Brain food, many a true word I fear (must follow that up) ;-)

DMB said to Arlo

> >Right. The morality of vegetarianism is really just about eating as far down the food chain as possible. There is no such thing as non-biological food, but we can make choices from within that level. I suppose that cannibalism is taboo precisely because people are almost always more than biological.
> >

Ian asks DMB.
Although the choices you refer to are in the "biological" layer,
you're not saying the morality is biological here are you ? I'm
guessing your choice of the word "taboo" suggests you see it as mainly
social, but do you see it in any sense intellectual too ?

(If I was being picky I might argue against your assertion "there is
no such thing as non-biological food", but that would just be a
definitional matter, so probably not relevant.)

Ian