[PW] Re: a late word on capybaras and their religious status as food

[Chris Corston]

Sounds like an old definition of "beaver as fish" used in early Canada as 
well, so beaver meat could be eaten on religious fast days and in Lent.
Chris Corston
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia


Nancy wrote (in part):
>      The text on the page says, "A capybara nears the end of its rope
> during the pre-Easter round-up at a spread called El Cedral.  What turkey
> is the Thanksgiving in the U.S., capybara is to Easter in Venezuela.
> Tradition holds that the semiaquatic capy is a fish and so offers 
> guiltless
> dining during Lent, when faithful Catholics shun meat."