06-14-2011, 08:03 AM
I think you think to much. There's a food chain, we're at the top, get over it. Might as well say you think it's unfair that apples fall to the ground and suffer bruises and it would be nice if there was no gravity.
There's no meat I wouldn't eat simply because it was meat but there are certain stereotypes you're brought up with. For instance, even if was farmed and in perfect health I just wouldn't be able to eat rat without thinking of disease. And I don't like the texture in my mouth of offal. I like some 'grain' to chew on. So monkey brains aren't the top of my menu. And although (I think) I'd probably eat human meat in a survival situation, it would have to be pretty fucking extreme.
I've eaten horse in France, ostrich in Germany, kangaroo in Australia, crocodile in Singapore. I did have the opportunity of eating dog in the Philippines once but, tbh, the dogs I saw there weren't exactly healthy looking--so I declined but it was more on hygiene reasons than because it was dog. [It was a bit funny actually, I saw the trays labelled pork, chicken, dog meat and my first thought was "why would you would want to buy dog food in the same place you would buy food for yourself?
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Cruelty in the killing? Yeah, sure, I wish everything I ate had a happy and fulfilled life and got to play with it's grandkids before dying peacefully in it's sleep. But, tbh, if it looks pink and juicy on the slab in the butchers I don't ask what it's favourite toy was.
There's no meat I wouldn't eat simply because it was meat but there are certain stereotypes you're brought up with. For instance, even if was farmed and in perfect health I just wouldn't be able to eat rat without thinking of disease. And I don't like the texture in my mouth of offal. I like some 'grain' to chew on. So monkey brains aren't the top of my menu. And although (I think) I'd probably eat human meat in a survival situation, it would have to be pretty fucking extreme.
I've eaten horse in France, ostrich in Germany, kangaroo in Australia, crocodile in Singapore. I did have the opportunity of eating dog in the Philippines once but, tbh, the dogs I saw there weren't exactly healthy looking--so I declined but it was more on hygiene reasons than because it was dog. [It was a bit funny actually, I saw the trays labelled pork, chicken, dog meat and my first thought was "why would you would want to buy dog food in the same place you would buy food for yourself?
]Cruelty in the killing? Yeah, sure, I wish everything I ate had a happy and fulfilled life and got to play with it's grandkids before dying peacefully in it's sleep. But, tbh, if it looks pink and juicy on the slab in the butchers I don't ask what it's favourite toy was.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."