Tremendomeatatarianism is the ethical stance of vowing only to eat meat that’s tremendously delicious. To some who are blinded by old ideas, tremendomeatatarianism may sound more like a joke than an ethos.
Your doubts and jeers aside, it is a demanding standard by which to judge your actions. The tremendomeatatarian refuses to eat meat simply because it is what his parents did, or because it is convenient, or because he lacks willpower. The tremendomeatatarian respects the fact that his food came from a living being, which died to provide him with dinner, and which may have suffered or be rare and overfished.† Or perhaps it’s bad for the environment. Any of these things are costs, so the good utilitarian must balance them out. So he vows that he will respect that sacrifice by only eating meat if it is tremendously delicious.
(†) Fish are not meat, but here they are honorary meat.
(‡) T-Rex made up the concept of Tremendomeatatarianism, but maybe he meant something different from what I am meaning.
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Gary // 4 November, 2008 at 10:18 am |
How, before tasting any given meat morsel, would one discover that it is tremendously delicious? Is its aroma a certain indicator? Appearances are potentially deceiving. Or does one always review the recipe and make assumptions based upon ingredients and steps in the preparation? Perhaps one trusts the purveyor of meat morsels, a known chef say, or a culinary figure of repute. Still, even the greatest must have their failures, thus threatening to undercut purity of the tremendomeatatarian’s dietary regime. But perchance the reward is worth the risk.