If you can't kill and eat a pig, then how can you kill and eat a cauliflower?
appetizers & snacks breads fish & seafood garlic herbs & spices homemade lamb pasts poultry rice salads soups sweets vegetables vegetarians Vegetarians are cruel unthinking people. Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated. That a peach bleeds when torn apart. Do you believe an orange insensitive To thumbs gouging out its flesh? Those tomatoes spill their brains painlessly, Potatoes skinned alive and boiled tomato, The soils little lobsters. Don't tell me it doesn't hurt When peas are ripped from their overcoats, The hide flayed off sprouts, Cabbage shredded, onions beheaded. Throw in the trowel and lay down the hoe. Mow no more. Let my people go! Roger McGough Vegetarier Vegetarier sind grausame, gedankenlose Menschen. Jedermann weiß,dass eine Möhre schreit, wenn sie geraspelt wird. Dass ein Pfrisch blutet, wenn er aufgerissen wird. Glaubst du, dass eine Orange gefühllos ist für Daumen, die ihr das Fleisch aushöhlen? Dass Tomaten ihr Hirn schmerzlos vergießen? Kartoffeln lebendig enthäutet und gekocht, des Erdreichs kleine Hummer. Erzähl mir nicht, dass es nicht weh tut wenn Erbsen vom Skrotum gerissen werden, die Haut vom Rosenkohl gezogen, Kohl gehobelt und Zwiebeln geköpft.Wirf hin die Kelle. Leg nieder die Hacke. Mähe nicht mehr, lass mein Volk ziehn Roger McGough The Cauliflower I wanted to be a cauliflower, all brains and ears, thinking on the origin of gardens and the divinity of him who carefully binds my leaves. With my blind roots touched by the songs of the worms, and my rough throat throbbing with strange, vegetable sounds, perhaps I'd feel the parting stroke of a butterfly's wing ... Not like my cousins, the cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded, see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. John Haines back         tools of the vegetable lovers Werkzeuge der Gemüseleibhaber home the cook supermarket Rezepte Wörterbuch contact disclaimer english