Can you name all the 10 commandments? I sure can't, but seeing that I didn't grow up in a religious family, my only real exposure to them was the movie of the same name (and I fell asleep watching it.) Don't worry -- I do have a point here. Recent studies show that Americans are more proficient at naming the ingredients in a Big Mac and naming the members of the Brady Bunch better than they are at naming the 10 commandments.

Surprising? I don't think so. But even though I'm not a church-goer, this news is a bit disconcerting. Is this to say that we know fast food and TV better than we know basic morals and ethics? Or is it just a reflection of the fact the Religion isn't as big a institution in our society as it once was? What do you think?

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Over at Slashfood there's an interesting bit on vegansexuals: vegans who don't sleep with non-vegans, because, as one vegansexual says, "I would not want to be intimate with somebody whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance. I wouldn't want to get close to them in a physical sense if their body was derived from meat. For me, this constitutes my very personal form of ethical sexuality." I guess this is just taking the notion that "you are what you eat" into the bedroom...or something.

'Course we should mention that not all vegans are vegansexual (that word doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?) but I'm still a little confused about why this gets its own category. I mean, we all have people we wouldn't sleep with. But hey, maybe this could be a gentle brush off: "I really like you, but I'm, um, vegansexual." It'd probably still work even if the other person has no idea what that means.

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