structural texts
1. CHEESE
Apparently, weíre the only species
that depends on this fantastic thumb facing the others, which permits us
operations without limits. This, they say, has made it possible for us
to develop the technique, that we may be a species so tecnified and in
the end, that we may be a dominant specie. We belong to the mammals, a
zoological group with many special characteristics. For example: we have
hair. For example: the females of all the species that belong to that group
feed their young with milk. This has brought me to think that, on one hand,
the capacity of human beings to perform complicated manual operations permits
us, neither more nor less, to milk the females of other mammals and not
simply breast-feed... this has brought us, since many centuries to manufacture
cheese.
Allrighty then, what is cheese,
if not the food that has universally more recognition and acceptation among
all the animal species (not only mammals)? Perhaps some animal, from an
ant to a seagull or elephant, would reject a grand buffet of manchego
cheese, for example? All of us have been able to see how cheese makes unknown
even its most basic extincts of prudence to the mouse, loose composture
to the dog next to the table or organise an expedition of conquering a
complete ant hill. And those fungi that live in it make it oh so delicious...
That extraordinary power of cheese transfers itself to the human species
and brings me to say: beware, humans, our supremacy above the other species
will only last until we are the only cheese producers. Letís not allow
the other animal species to discover the secrets of the manufacturing of
cheese and we will sleep in peace!.
© NUBLA 1993