B.P. Terpstra
“Consider two spheres of concern that dominate vast swaths of our culture today: health and food,” writes Jonah Goldberg in his politically-incorrect bestseller, Liberal Fascism. “The Nazis took food very, very seriously. Hitler claimed to be a dedicated vegetarian. Indeed, he could talk for hours about the advantages of a meatless diet and the imperative to eat whole grains.”
You could say Hitler was a real Nazi in the kitchen. He even told off a close vegetarian for bringing his impure concoctions to meetings. Robert Proctor, for example, writes how an annoyed Hitler informed Rudolph Hess: “I have an excellent dietician/cook here. If your doctor has prescribed something special for you, she could certainly prepare it. You cannot bring your own food in here”! For among Nazis, there were different vegetarian castes.
Remember the eco-fascists viewed themselves as the “Native Americans” of the continent, or victims of evil Christian colonialism. It was madness beyond measure. As Goldberg puts it, “Hitler often claimed his vegetarianism was inspired by Richard Wagner, who, in an 1891 essay, argued that meat eating and race mixing were the twin causes of man’s alienation from the natural world.” Madness, indeed.