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Article: What, no more Wienerschnitzel?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1995
- Author:
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Well, of course you can wipe out veal. Unless you are
interested in food, I do not see how this matters much. There are
peoples who live on seal blubber and others largely on rice. There
are even some zealots who live on apples alone. And Saint Si mon
ofthe Stylites, not to be confused with Simon Zelotes, patron of
fishmongers, lived 40 years on pillars, the last of which was 66ft
high. Chacun son supplice, or to each man his torment, as the
Marquis de Sade might have said. God knows what Simon S tylites
ate, but it did not matter to him.
As far as I am concerned, however, food is one of the
consolations of life: like art, families, children and friends. A
life without veal has one simple ...