This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.


The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners (ed. Penguin UK, 2017) - ISBN: 9780241979389

Margaret Visser Quotes

This is what is meant by sacrifice, literally, the making sacred of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a ...

This is what is meant by sacrifice, literally, the making sacred of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a ...

This is what is meant by sacrifice, literally, the making sacred of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a ...

This is what is meant by sacrifice, literally, the making sacred of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a ...