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I'm sure peta would love this
ReplyPostsecret is a fascinating site! People's creativity and depth can be amazing!
Zoos...barbaric. They are like psychiatric hospitals for animals, except the animals are sane when they are admitted.
ReplyWhile not everyone is interested in eating non-domestic species, I don't see why it's so unusual to think about what a tiger or elephant might taste like.
ReplySeveral years ago at a restaurant in Chicago that served exotic foods, a friend ordered lion! Just take a slice from an old leather shoe, heat it up and "enjoy!" You are not missing a thing, trust me :-)
ReplyAn eatery in La Jolla was going to or did serve up lion but as I recall (happened years ago) there were lots of protests.
Other than trichinosis or eating an endangered species - why do we regionally classify one type of animal as food and others as pets? I'm just talking here... I would not eat a lion or an ape.
ReplyExactly! I don't eat any animals myself, but I don't see why we differentiate between, say, a pig and a dog when both are fairly intelligent, fairly sociable creatures.
ReplyYou don't understand why we eat some animals, but don't eat others ;is that what your asking? If you look at the roles those animals played during the development of mankind that will pretty much answer that question.
ReplyCertainly that plays a role! But in cultures that developed differently, different animals took on different roles. There's no hard and fast rules about what gets eaten and what does not. Look at dogs, for example. In the U.S., we buy them jeweled collars or put them to work, but there are plenty of places around the globe where I can get a nice plate of puppy. Before I went veg, I ate guinea pig in South America. In Germany and France, one can enjoy horse steaks.
I suppose what I don't understand is the resistance to the notion of eating particular animals. People react with horror to the thought of eating certain animals. Thought through logically rather than culturally, there's no reason to differentiate between species.
ReplyI see were you coming from, but one could ask the very same thing of vegetarians: why do they give animals extra meaning over just being part of the food chain;(adding in emotions and morality) if you look at it logically like you mentioned.
ReplyI am not a vegetarian, but I think the post card is kinda gross...
ReplyI guess I never really think about what most of the animals would taste like, but I do sometimes wonder what the eggs of some of the weird birds would taste like. Seriously, you could make a serious omelette with an ostrich egg.
Reply*chuckles*
I'm not anti-AW or anything, but I think this is funny.
When I go to the zoo, I wonder what the animal's food tastes like...
I don't see the difference between eating a giraffe and eating a cow. Except the cow might taste better!
ReplyI once asked a Sudanese friend what he missed about home at Christmas time and he told me nostalgically that it was giraffe meat. So I guess which tastes better depends on where you come from.
Replyyou have to be a pretty devoted carnivore to think like that...
ReplyMmmmm, breaded Lemur. So gooooood.....
:)
ReplyAu contraire, and so do the animals.
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