Noah and Ben slaughtered two goats as a test for a goat meal
we will have next weekend. Ben is from
Burkina Faso and is a master baker. Noah
started a barbecue club at Bard College and wrote
his senior thesis on race and class and pork.
Ben grew up in a country where he learned
about meat. Today we listen to Frederick Douglass say
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
and we discuss in a new way how much
we took for granted how much we don’t know
how much we have to learn today we celebrate
the forms independence takes how linked
we are to one another and today because of Noah
and Ben we will celebrate goats.
Had to forward this to granddaughter at Bard (on campus, awaiting whatever her senior year will be)… majoring in Chinese studies.
we’d love to have her visit us. We’re not so far away. xxx
How deaf you are to animal suffering…
You are deaf to the suffering of animals…
Hi Ester,
Dave and I have eaten goat with our Muslim friends from Glen Ellen.
Rather delicious, at least the way Maimona prepares it.
Hope you had a good July 4th. Dave and I are about to leave for Wisconsin where we will meet one of my friends from grade school. At one point in our lives, we were (almost) literally joined at the hip — at lest our mothers thought that!!
Hope all is well with the two of you — and stay safe! Pat (and Dave, packing the car…)
sounds like fun
love to you both xxx