Sunday, 9 January 2011

dem bones, dem bones ...

I could easily become a vegetarian, especially after watching the latest episode of Brucy Parry's travels with Inuit hunters in Greenland on BBC2.  He ate 'chewy steaming stomach lining', raw liver and eyeballs from a seal.  Then he patronised his hosts by arguing that having accepted some of the trappings of the modern world - supermarkets selling both rifles and mobile phones - they had to learn to bend with the prevailing conservationist winds and accept hunting quotas.  So hypocritical and patronising at the same time then.  I didn't take to the man in the first programme I saw and don't feel inlcined to spend any more time in his company.  He has nothing interesting to say, nor does he offer any real insights into the people or the cultures he visits.  I wonder how he would get on in the company of cannibals?  That would be a real test of Parry's tolerance and how far he would go to immerse himself in an 'exotic culture'. 

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