{"id":1452,"date":"2021-03-10T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2021-03-10T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:09:49","slug":"taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/03\/10\/taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Re: <\/strong>Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human<\/a> (R Dunn & M Sanchez)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My (shamefully late<\/a>) moral awakening has made me unable to read most of what I used to consider our classical literature. The flagrant and unquestioned abuse of animals is everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel the same way about the historical and biological past of human (gustatory) taste. In broad strokes, I know the story, but the details are not titillating.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact I think that in a much broader sense I have renounced most \u201ctaste\u201d of  all sorts, both gustatory and aesthetic\/cultural. It\u2019s so imbued with pleasure at the expense of the suffering of others, human and animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course there\u2019s no rejecting Darwinian facts \u2013 but there\u2019s no pleasure in rehearsing, replicating or revering them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tasteYes, this does superficially resemble some sort of ascetic, killjoy puritanical cult. But although it would take a while to explain it, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that at all — and in some fundamental ways the opposite: the enemy is not pleasure itself, but pleasure at the expense of the suffering of others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Re: Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human (R Dunn & M Sanchez) My (shamefully late) moral awakening has made me unable to read most of what I used to consider our classical literature. The flagrant and unquestioned abuse of animals is everywhere.\u00a0 I feel the same way about the historical … <\/p>\n

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