eating meat

[Elena Gapova]

(Belarusian) Tatars (who are Muslims) say the same thing about eating geese
and lamb (though the idea is more that the animals should be slaughtered in
a special way, and then their fear does not taint blood). One of the authors
of the volume that I happened to edit, a Tatar woman writing about her
grandmother, mentions this (Rosaliya Aleksandrovich. "My s nei iz odnoi
zhizni," Zhenschiny na krayu Evropy (E. Gapova ed.), Minsk, EHU, 2003).

 And this is the idea, as far as I know, about Jewish Kosher meat. The whole
thing must be Middle Eastern regional specificity.

e.g.

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Russell Valentino
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Subject: [SEELANGS] eating meat


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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