But I was trying to simply present a dispassionate view of a situation that has been repeated throughout history, and one that we are simply going to have to accept given our species’ unique relationship to other animals. No other animal (by choice) drinks another’s milk. No other animal so intensive herds and slaughters and involves itself in other animal’s physiology.

If we want to get away from these animal-based fever pandemics then we are either going to have to radically change our animal husbandry practices, or all become vegetarian. That’s not going to happen for economic reasons (we all like cheap meat too much) nor for cultural reasons (we have a very strong relationship to eating meat) – and the lame metaphors were a crap attempt to begin to suggest that we aren’t going to for religious reasons either. Our rituals are deeply intertwined with our diet; what we present to God is what we cherish. So meat and sacrifice and blood have become central to our theology – something I was trying to get away from in these posts on the Hunter-Gatherer Eucharist.

Still that’s no excuse for lazy/speed blogging. Which ironically was because a bunch of the family have gone down with a fever /-§