tibetans vegan?

March 25, 2002

it's lucky that you don't travel in Tibet then ... where there are few plants .. no trees ... and the only food the nomadic tribes have is tea made from imported 'bricks' of ground tea mixed with yaks butter (and they use dried yaks dung to hold the bits down) ... a paste made from ground roast barley (either made with saliva or tea...) ... like a starch ball... they also eat raw meat (mutton or yak) :

"a haunch is left outside to freeze, and this preserves it to a certain extent for several months, though the recurrent heat of the day causes it to thaw sufficiently to become putrescent. at night it freezes again, a process which repeats itself as long as the meat lasts. the tibetans do not object to the semi-putrescence, as they consider that the taste is this way improved. occasionally the meat is cooked, but for the most part the peasants prefer to eat it raw. hacking off small pieces with their great knives, they eat it with their fingers."

"fish and fowl are considered too filthy to be eaten. vegetables are unknown."

tell me... would you ask them to cut out half of their diet? (leaving them with a gooey starch ball for the rest of it?) ...

would you hate them all because of their diet? ... a diet which has come about by itself because of the specific land from which they make a living?

probably not much different from Mongolians ...

and those small Islands who would find it difficult nutritionally if they ever gave up the fish in their diet ... ?

how many people are you going to hate? ...

why not take a bunch of leaflets over and set up stall ....

anyway it's all probably too late for that ... the chinese, who were always really quite disgusted with the Tibetans diet and there method of feeding the dead to vultures rather than burying them, are steadily eradicating tibetan culture with 'education' ... restaurants in Lhasa hardly ever sell tibetan food ... only chinese food ... and nomads don't have freedom to roam .. because china sells the land to big oil companies... (trespassing is forbidden).... (sarcasm) ... tibet is a slowly dying country ... one of those cases where no one will really realise it till it's far too late... and then we'll have a Save Tibet Culture concert with lots of aging pop stars .... (as opposed to Free Tibet) ...

Z

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Angie Wright

Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:33 PM

Re: I am a convert

I think its ok to be nasty to animal eaters once you have told them about what they do ,because they can no longer plead ignorance .

I'm lucky that the only animal eaters I know are colleagues at work or strangers who I meet doing stalls

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djules_75

Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:03 PM

I am a convert

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March 25, 2002

No I don't travel --Can't afford to!

I'm obviously talking about those I meet in the west (UK)

How do you feed yourself when you go there? It is a place I shall have to avoid since there won't be anything I can eat

I don't object to the cannibals lifestyle for the reasons you have given (loss of a culture etc ) but I won't travel to those areas.

What do the Yaks find to eat ? Where does the barley come from

I only set up stalls in my town Nice of you to make fun of me over it . I suggest in future you don't assume we can all travel