
Gus introduced me to the eloquent carnivore’s magazine ‘meatpaper,’ where in the latest issue Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft writes about the vegetarian tendencies of the third reich: apparently Hitler was a vegetarian, and together with the leaders of the Nazi party they promoted the vegetarian diet – but for totally different motives than today’s vegheads: vegetarianism was a way to distance the German race from Jews and Gypsies and improving the quality of their lands and bodies. His point is salient in today’s moralizing economy: that the same noble ends can serve the interests of very diverse ideologies, and almost no movement can’t be coopted for evil ends.