Unfortunately, the vast upheavels and peaceful plateaus of our societies have nearly all of their romantic ideal, their sexualities and their concept of male dominant provider all wrapped up in a carnivorous diet. There is an inseparable relateionship between male strength derived from meat and man's wars, his economies, his cities and his great romantic loves and fathering of young warriors and virgins. Blood is everywhere in our past. Even the virgin is symbolic for her blood when sacrificed. Indeed there is blood derived strength everywhere.
Blood is a strength giver, no doubt.
But this strength is the ultimate moral paradox of the human conscience. For any person who would see death, experience war or know the emotional plight of our industrial prey, our cows, our pigs, our chickens, would feel caught in a tangle of conflicting thoughts. He would have to wonder if it is morally weak that we not only survived by blood but also have become a society of industrial meat eaters. If meat eating to keep strength with other meat eaters is not immoral, then certainly the industrial nature of our killing is profoundly immoral. Now let me turn to our cities.