What about ape? If you were in Africa, would you eat gorilla or chimpanzee? “I can’t draw the line there,” he answered. “It’s either eat meat, or don’t eat meat. You’d have to test me by putting human flesh in front of me.” This could have sounded ghoulish, provocative, or just silly, but it didn’t, because he was earnestly trying to answer my hypothetical with candor and logic. Taxonomy simply wasn’t among his guiding standards of diet. Back in New York, he had told me, he lives mainly on fruit.
