Ethics of Cookery

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This is entirely your call. Situational ethics can work if

compartmentalized and in service of a long-term or larger good. In other

words, you become a chef, then dedicate yourself to being a great

vegetarian chef.

 

My thought is that they're being ridiculous and that you can possibly find

a school that doesn't do this nonsense, but then again, it may be

inconvenient to you, or what ever.

 

Can you hack handling and preparing meat dishes? Can you minimalize your

exposure to this idiocy? If you can genuinely say that you're doing this

for the betterment of cooking and of yourself, you might try negotiating

with the school Say, if they make a chicken dish, you agree to prepare an

equivalent non-chicken dish.

 

As Hemingway once said, what's right is what you feel good after. If you

can feel good after getting a degree from this sort of school, and put

what you learn to good use, go for it. If not, either see if you can work

something out with them, or keep looking.

 

I'm sure there's a purely vegetarian cooking school somewhere. I'll ask

my cousin's wife, who is a four-star chef in San Francisco. Maybe she'll

know.

 

 

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 04:14 PM,

wrote:

 

> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:28:30 -0000

> " Jigilou Snicklefitz " <jigilou

> Ethical Education Question

>

> Hi All,

>

> Looking for honest responses here (please no flames!) OK - so I'm

> looking into going back to school to get a Culinary Arts degree.

> However, I can't find a single school that offers purely vegetarian

> cooking. Even the " Natural Cooking " school has a mandatory class in

> preparing poultry.

>

> So, the Natural Cooking School would make me cook chicken and a more

> prestigious, recognized school would make me cook beef and poultry.

> (Although the Meat Prep professor is a veggie... wierd). Do I

> swallow my vegetarian mentality and enroll in the better school even

> though it uses meat? Incidentily, the meat course does conduct

> lessons on environmental issues (presumably so the Five Star rest.

> doesn't serve crap steak) and on ethical issues surrounding meat

> consumption.

>

> What thoughts?

>

> Thanks!

> -K

>

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