The gauntlet
has been thrown down!
By Merlin
Lessler
There is a
quiet conflict underway in this country, call it a war in the making. It’s been
smoldering under the radar for years, but now the flames lick higher. It
started in the 1960’s, maybe earlier, when a college student, usually a co-ed,
came home for Thanksgiving and announced, I’m a vegetarian!” Mom went into a
tizzy, “What do we feed her?” she asked Dad. “I’ve got a 25 pound turkey in the
oven and all the fixings including a bushel of mashed potatoes and enough gravy
to drown an army.”
“It’s just a
phase,” her husband replied. “She’ll get over it by the end of the semester.”
And, that’s what usually happened, back then. But not anymore. It’s now an
outright conflict between the herbivores (plant eaters) and the omnivores
(plant & animal eaters). Our species evolved as omnivores; we have the
teeth to prove we were genetically destined to consume both meat and plants.
But now that
the war has heated up, our species has divided into two different evolutionary
forks: The omnivore fork and the herbivore fork. And, who do you think is
throwing the bombs? Not the so-called uneducated meat eaters; It’s the
descendants of peace loving flower children: vegans and vegetarians. They are
in an attack mode – going as far as to claim the animals consumed by the
omnivores are the cause of global warming and climate change.
Maybe they will
dominant the path of the human species, discarding us omnivores, just as we did
the Neanderthals. It’s going to get ugly out there. No more spaghetti and
meatballs! No more pizza with pepperoni! No more ham and eggs! No more bacon
burgers! A whole bunch of us old guys won’t give up; they’ll have to pry the
hot dogs out of our cold dead hands.
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