I realise that we owe the whole North Pole and reindeer fable to Clement Moore, who embroidered out of all recognition the Germanic and Slavic adaptation of a story about a kind-hearted RC bishop who lived during the late classic period in what’s now Turkey.
But the idea of Santa slaughtering and selling the flesh of his reindeer, who are his pets as well as his sleigh-pullers, is somehow quite distasteful (to me, at least) even as a cartoon.
I realise that we owe the whole North Pole and reindeer fable to Clement Moore, who embroidered out of all recognition the Germanic and Slavic adaptation of a story about a kind-hearted RC bishop who lived during the late classic period in what’s now Turkey.
But the idea of Santa slaughtering and selling the flesh of his reindeer, who are his pets as well as his sleigh-pullers, is somehow quite distasteful (to me, at least) even as a cartoon.