farmdoc's blog post number 551

Today’s ‘List Friday’ list is treehugger.com’s 13 Great Vegetarians From History. I have more than a passing interest in vegetarians because among their number are three of my daughters. Thus of the five people I love most in the whole world, over half are vegetarians. I don’t how and why Sweetheart Vivienne and I – who each eat meat once or at most twice each week, but are clearly omnivors – came to produce three vegetarian progeny. But produce them we did. Anyway back to the list. Its title, you will note, is Great Vegetarians and not necessarily Greatest Vegetarians. But it’s an impressive list. For sure. Gandhi, Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Leonardo, Voltaire, Johnny Appleseed, Mary Shelley, Tolstoy, Kavka, G. B. Shaw, John Coltrane, and Einstein. Of course it’s unknown if the prominence and achievements of any of these 13 Great Vegetarians would have been any the less had they not been vegetarians. But who cares. I certainly don’t. (Another list next Friday.)