HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Darwin’s dodgy diet
PETER FROST looks at the many curious animals that Charles Darwin didn’t just study but also cooked and ate — and the modern practice of scientists eating their research subjects
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MY RAMBLINGS a week or so ago brought some comments from regular readers. Was I really accusing their hero — and mine — Charles Darwin of eating rare and threatened animals like the giant Galapagos tortoise?
He did of course, and he wasn’t the only one. There are many scientists who eat the plants and animals they study.
Darwin, during the voyage of the Beagle, ate not only giant tortoises but also puma. He said they tasted remarkably like veal. He also dined on iguanas, armadillos and who knows what other curious beasts.
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