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Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm

Posted by Tracy in : books,eating,geekery,history,meat,not even vegetarian,people,politics,vegetarian , 1 comment so far

I need your help.

Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.

Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.

I’m bringing this up now because (more…)