305: GETTING THEIR GREENS
From Spitting Image: Mrs Thatcher: I’ll have the steak.
Waiter: Vegetables?
Mrs T: Oh, they’ll have the same.
Bibliography is ever-expanding, print and online. Try: H Williams, The Ethics of Diet (1883); C Spenser, The Heretics’ Feast (1993, considered the first-ever history of Vegetarianism); E Binch-Dann, Vegetables: A Biography (2012); L Ballerini, A Feast of Weeds (2012); T Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (2006).
Although fishing is mentioned in a simile, Homer’s heroes were unabashed carnivores. In everyday life, many were reluctant vegetarians, being unable to afford meat, their one chance to get it being at pagan sacrifices, a reason for