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Doug Freyburger · **(2009-12-09) NS-RFC: Vegan fare**

wrote:
>
> My only problem with the survey is question 2. It would be
> difficult to have not eaten some "vegan" food at some point
> in a normal life. I mean, if I'm munching on a carrot or
> celery stick I'm eating vegan food. Nothing special about
> it. It doesn't have to be tofu masquerading as something
> else to be vegan, it just has to not use animal products.

I took it to mean a deliberately vegan meal with a deliberately vegan
main course. I've had such meals. Not a big deal to me.

> I firmly believe that humans are essentially
> rat like in nature when it comes to food. We can, and will,
> eat pretty much anything that doesn't eat us first

Depends on your time scale, right? I've eaten bear meat. No bear has
ever eaten me (yet) but there were bears eating human-like ancestors
before they invented the sharp stick and sharp rock and human-like
ancestors started eating bears. I've eaten shark, too.

> and is not actively poisonous.

Hot peppers are actively poison. Yum!

> I just don't consider it normal for human beings.

Time to queue the scene from Young Frankenstein ...

Igor, where did you get the brain for the monster?

At the university medical school.

Did it have a name?

Yeah. Abby something.

Abby what?

Abby Normal I think.