Today my wife and I went with our daughter, her husband and their 3 children to the brand new OdySea Aquarium in Scottsdale, Arizona. Actually I think it’s on the Indian Reservation next to Scottsdale. But it was a beautiful place. Well planned, built and with lots to see. We had a wonderful time.

Looking at all the different fish, I was reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s experiment with a faddish vegetarian diet. He had given up eating meat for a season. On a trip across a harbor on a boat, the wind stopped and the boat became becalmed. It couldn’t reach the shore. So the crew made the most of their time by fishing off the bow.

The crew caught several fish. Ben noticed as these fish were being prepared for cooking, that the stomachs proved that the larger fish had eaten the smaller fish. So Ben decided right then to give up his vegetarian diet and enjoy a meal which included these fish.

He said something like: “If you eat one another, I don’t see why I shouldn’t eat you!” And he never went back to a vegetarian diet.