eating meat

[Russell Valentino]

Dear colleagues,

An Uzbek acquaintance recently made a point of letting me know that lamb was
the only meet one should eat after the age of forty because, he said, sheep are
the only animals that don't experience fear when they're slaughtered, fear
being the agent that taints the animal's blood, which, when ingested by humans,
creates bad spirit. This is the reason people who eat a lot of beef or pork or
chicken are often mean-tempered, he said.

While I have no specific cases in mind, this utterance struck me as rather
Russian. (My acquaintance did live for 20 years in Moscow.) I'm wondering
whether anyone has run into such an idea, or others of a similar nature.

Please feel free to respond off-list.

Russell

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