I start this collaboration with a punch in the stomach. My Brother died because he had stopped eating meat a few years ago. He was so weakened that he had lost his defense. In the clinic they stuffed him with iron, making his veins hard like stovepipes. The other problems added up and attacked him all together.
di Bruno Modugno
So he left us, my poor brother. He was not the victim of a blasphemous fashion, that of vegans, but simply of the unwillingness to live. You have already figured out where I'm headed. Against those who accuse us of eating corpses, against those who hate hunting, against those who stage the crusade every Holy Week to save the Easter lambs. For a couple of years Daria Bignardi invited me on Easter Friday to the television studio of “The Barbarian Invasions” to defend the Easter lamb eaters from their detractors. The year before I refused because I was in Austria. Giacomo Cretti you know went there. He defended himself well. The following year I accepted. We should have been four against four. In the end there were two of us left (a cook from the Roman countryside, a specialist in lamb hunter) and myself.
The vet who was supposed to help me did not come and a journalist who was also in favor of meat consumption immediately went to the other side, where a respectable team sat: Baba Cesare, a fake Indian guru, an animalist philosopher, Red Canzian , famous bassist of Pooh, and Silvia Prandi of Discovery Channel. The debate immediately took a surreal turn, with the proposal of Daria Bignardi who said: "Okay, but the flocks that provide wool, milk and lambs could not be left free up the mountains?" After this demonstration of biological wisdom, by a journalist who thinks she knows everything about eco-systems, the pathetic absurdities of all the others arrived, with references to the slaughter of the innocent and to the rights of animals in a world where every species lives in damage of another, and where even plants, food of herbivores, have a nervous system. The system was not invented by me carnivore, I specified, but the good Lord. The cook and I therefore remained with our feet on the ground and we defended ourselves well, but then the presenter pulled the ace out of his sleeve and broadcast a tearful intervention of the then minister Brambilla (a character I never mentioned but often evoked in the final part of my toast at the end of the broadcast "In the face of those who get it bad!" with the phrase: "and I know who I'm talking about"). At that point I made my intervention which surprised everyone and precluded me from any future invitation to the studio of the beautiful Bignardi. I said, “Mrs. Brambilla is right. It broke my heart. In fact, at Easter I will not eat lamb but frozen prawns imported from Mrs. Brambilla's company. Because? Don't you know that the minister traffics in dead animals? " General frost, Bignardi's embarrassment that from that moment has not given me the floor. The transmission then ended in an increasingly faint tone, up to the ending theme song. I don't think he will invite me anymore. Amen.
So, the vegetarians and then the vegans. It's not about taste. We are talking about an unnatural and aberrant philosophy that has led to excesses in the past. Hitler and all his staff were vegetarians. Only Hermann Göring was a hunter, but he wrote the law against vivisection on animals, so much so that the experiments continued on the men locked up in concentration camps and psychiatric hospitals. This is not to say that my vegan niece will end up adhering to extreme ideologies, but only that she is one of the many innocent victims of a fashion that is making its way into modern and opulent societies. Certainly not in Africa and in the countries of the world that suffer from hunger. We are born with canines like all predators, and we still keep them after the 12 million years that separate us from Ramapiteco, which fed on fruits but also on small animals that it managed to capture. We have been losing wisdom teeth since we stopped chewing raw and / or stubborn foods.
But we still wear the canines and show them when we smile (behavior that was not always good-natured and reassuring, but that started as a threatening warning. It is still today the sign of aggression that our monkey cousins use). Human society evolved when man, the gatherer and hunter of animals, organized himself to capture and kill large mammals. From these forms of collective hunting were born the language, the social organization and the invention of each instrument. In short, the basis of modern societies which, whether you like it or not, are our natural habitat.
In the face of those who feel bad!