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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 63386" data-attributes="member: 35">Veer ji, each of you in turn.The most important thing for Sikhs in the context of this thread: We must not be cannibals. I smell the wood of an outdoor fire heating up, and hear the panga sauce bubbling on the stove. These are the signs of an ancient human ritual. Whatever we feel about meat as food, a meal of human flesh is not that satisfying. This thread started out perhaps two years ago as a systematic analysis of Guruji's apparent prohibitions against eating meat. The claim put forward by the authors -- Guruji was using meat and fish as metaphors for something else -- the arrogance of power. The essay was written by one herbivore and one carnivore. The scholarship is excellent. After thousands of views, the thread has been more about wrangling and less about flesh. Very few women chose to participate BTW. So far the ones ahead in this debate are the team of 5. But the thread has been a real draw for readership. Your devoted bhenji, :}8-:</blockquote>