This article focuses on the community activities. Michel Foucault, the French historian of ideas, has pointed out that in ancient Greece and Rome the ethics of what people eat was considered an important topic, at least as significant as sexual ethics. In traditional Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist ethics, too, discussions of what should and should not be eaten occupy a prominent place. Many people show some concern for the treatment of animals in their food choices avoiding veal because they don't like what they have heard about the treatment of veal calves.
