Vegetarianism by Spencer Colin;

Author:Spencer, Colin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COOKING / Vegetarian
Publisher: Grub Street
Published: 2016-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Lastly he recollects Plato’s picture of the Golden Age and how humankind had an advantage then because they could communicate with animals and learn from them: ‘by which they acquired a very perfect knowledge and intelligence and thus made their lives more happy than we can make ours. Is a better test needed by which to judge of human folly in regard to other species?’16 It is interesting that Montaigne selects the Golden Age for his example, but not the time in Eden before the Fall; it is as if he was so soaked in the Classicism of the Greeks that the Hebrew allegory, exactly similar, did not occur to him. Yet Montaigne does not take the logical step of denouncing the slaughter of animals for the consumption of meat; he seems to play with the idea without taking it to its natural conclusion – ‘Who doubts that a child, arrived at the necessary strength for feeding itself, could find its own nourishment? The earth produces and offers to him enough for his needs without artificial labour’17 – a failure all the more surprising in the light of his final observation, one as true now as it has ever been:‘Nature has furnished us with every plant we need, to shew us, as it seems, how superior she is to all our artificiality; while the extravagance of our appetite outruns all the inventions by which we seek to satisfy it.’18

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