food & nada Sara on 29 Jan 2007 10:05 pm
Last night’s New Yorker
From the John Wilkes Encyclopedia Londinensis 1796.
Posted at The Dodo Blog » The Hooded Dodo
From “Digging for Dodos” by Ian Parker (The New Yorker, January 22, 2007):
A Mauritian told me that his elderly uncle still said how glad he was that dodos were wiped out, because they would have disturbed his flower beds and “crapped all over the lawn.”
And:
“Where are you from? Holland? Oh, you ate all the dodos.”
From “Vegetable Love” by Steven Shapin (The New Yorker, January 22, 2007):
George Bernard Shaw is said to have asked, “While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”
(I am a fallen vegetarian, and that makes me cringe.)
