And, like bats, their possession of membranous rather than feathered wings, a furry pelage, and (for many species at least) a fish- or flesh-diet, would seem sufficient to place them among the forbidden foods.
In the eighteen-twenties and thirties, the Reverend Sylvester Graham, a founder of the American Vegetarian Society and the inventor of the eponymous cracker, argued that, with a proper (flesh-free) diet, lust could be almost entirely extinguished.
(There are actually numerous citations--both scientific and spiritual--that support a flesh-free diet, but I'll save that for my next post).
It doesn't matter how we look at it, eating lots of meat is bad news, and it's now impossible to refute that a flesh-heavy diet is unhealthy.
Last year, bacon sales in the US rose by nearly 10percenttoto an all-time high of $4 billion, which is a lot of cash to spend on salty, water-injected slices of pig especially in light of how unhealthy a flesh-heavy diet is.
Rainbow trout raised to have pinker flesh from a diet high in astaxanthin are sometimes sold in the U.S. with labeling calling them "steelhead".
Because of their monotonous diet, their flesh is so bland that processors inject them with saline solution and vegetable oils, improving "mouthfeel" while at the same time increasing shelf life and adding weight.
And since we're not zombies (yet), we don't require a diet of flesh.
The color and flavor of the flesh depends on the diet and freshness of the trout.
We thus chose to have prepared three diets supplemented with 0.1, 1, and 7.5% of lyophilized fish flesh, along with a control diet devoid of flesh.
Meeting Dr. Atkins, who died last month after slipping on an icy sidewalk, was like meeting the conundrum of the American diet in the flesh.
