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...Corned Beef Calumny...
TIME, March 29, most likely under the influence of delicatessen dining, accuses Thomas More of having been overly fond of corned beef. I am at a loss to account for the source of your information. Perhaps you drew on your carnivorous imagination or relied on some biographical chitchat for this impeachment of More's anti-slaughter principles. I have re-examined the Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams for some verification of this corned beef calumny, without finding the slightest substantiation. On the contrary, in More's justly famed Utopia, we find the Utopians condemning every form...
...seems that TIME is confusing Sir Thomas with Thomas Moore, the national poet of Ireland (1779-1852), whose favorite dish was corned beef . . . Sir Thomas More was a vegetarian from shortly after he entered Oxford to the extent that he eschewed flesh, fish and fowl...
...TIME'S authority for citing Sir Thomas More as a meat-eater was Erasmus, as quoted by Theodore Maynard in his book, Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More (Macmillan; 1947): "He likes to eat corned beef and corned bread much leavened, rather than what people count delicacies...
Meanwhile, sales for the candlelight supper on Friday are continuing apace, with over 100 of the 200 ducats sold. The supper, according to publicity chief A. Werner Pleus '51, will feature tablecloths and thick slices of beef, as well as the candlelight...