The Ruminati Blog
Carnivore, Powerbuilding, And Philosophy
The Vegetarian Movement Began In A Salford Chapel In 1809, Under A Preacher Called Cowherd
In 1809 a preacher in Salford told his congregation to give up meat and drink for good, and made it the price of staying in
The Chicken: Built In A Cowshed And Sold By A Grocer
In 1953 a Sussex farmer came home from America with 24 fertilised eggs in his hand luggage. Bringing hatching eggs into the country was banned,
Mad Cow Disease: The Cattle Were Fed Cattle, And The Public Was Fed Reassurance
The first vet on record to see mad cow disease blamed the cattle feed. He was looking for the wrong poison in the right bag,
Keeping It To Yourself Was A Skill. We Talked Ourselves Out Of It.
At two in the morning on 15 April 1941, with bombs falling on the centre of Barrow-in-Furness, a housewife of 51 picked up a pencil
The Matchbox Ration
On the afternoon of Thursday 8 February 1951, Captain Harry Crookshank rose in the House of Commons and tried to describe the British meat ration
What Did The Mongols Eat? The Army That Walked Its Dinner Across Asia
In the early 1220s a historian in Mosul called Ibn al-Athir spent years refusing to write the next chapter of his chronicle. He admits it.
