Anthropologists have informed us of a universal taboo. There is no, nor has there ever been, a society that condones farting at the dinner table. (In the era when well-mannered Europeans picked lice from the bodies of fellow diners, it was still considered bad form to let one rip during a meal).
I find this very heartening. Perhaps if Arabs and Jews, Serbs and Albanians, Greeks and Turks could sit down together for a fartless meal they would realize that they are not so different from one another. This "First Supper" could fuel the journey toward world peace.
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