heywood on 26/11/2012 at 23:02
Quote Posted by Peanuckle
I had a Game Stew once that had rabbit, raccoon, venison, groundhog, and all the little woodland critters you can imagine. It was delicious, and each meat had a different texture to it.
As long as the animal is put down cleanly, I have no problems eating it. I'd probably eat dog or cat if it was served to me. Not eating animals that are used as pets in some countries is a ridiculous distinction.
If somebody is raising dogs or cats as livestock somewhere, I don't care. I draw the line at eating actual pets. To me, a domesticated animal is either livestock or a pet but not both.
And I wouldn't eat raccoon either, out of concern for diseases and toxicity.
SubJeff on 27/11/2012 at 00:28
I was going to say I'd never do pets but Toxic Cat sounds like something all the cool kids would be into.
Hey man, I had this SuperToxic Burmese once. It was mad good man, sick even, you know.
Renzatic on 27/11/2012 at 00:50
Totally radical, even! Righteously tubular!
Toxic Cat sounds like something straight out of the 80's. I'm pretty sure I had a Trapper Keeper folder with him on it.
Tocky on 27/11/2012 at 05:21
Whenever the conversation turns to eating pets I'm reminded of an old black guy that was on the tonight show decades ago. He said one Christmas they were served their pet racoon for dinner. He said all the kids were crying around the dinner table. Johnny said they likely didn't eat any dinner but the old fellow quickly rejoined "oh no. We ate him. We were hungry." There is a fundamental truth about why we eat meat in that. At least historicaly. Poor kids though, crying and eating racoon.
Peanuckle on 27/11/2012 at 06:57
Quote Posted by Tocky
Whenever the conversation turns to eating pets I'm reminded of an old black guy that was on the tonight show decades ago. He said one Christmas they were served their pet racoon for dinner. He said all the kids were crying around the dinner table. Johnny said they likely didn't eat any dinner but the old fellow quickly rejoined "oh no. We ate him. We were hungry." There is a fundamental truth about why we eat meat in that. At least historicaly. Poor kids though, crying and eating racoon.
Yeah, my parents family were all raised in that kind of household, grandparents lived through the depression so they were miserly as fuck. Uncle had a pet turkey. Guess what they had for thanksgiving one year?
Couldn't keep pets in that household that weren't a dog or a cat. They got eaten.
SD on 16/12/2012 at 03:25
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Indulge me.
A month late responding, but hey...
I dispute that the ethical vegetarians you meet cannot rationally justify their dietary choice. I suspect that what you dismiss as "emotional frothing" are actually quite sound arguments expressed in emotional terms.
For instance, the commonly expressed belief that "eating meat is cruel" may seem like an emotional stance, but it's really just the extension of the golden rule to our cousin species; one wouldn't dismiss the claim that "eating humans is cruel" as emotional froth.
SubJeff on 17/12/2012 at 01:53
If someone just stated that they didn't want to eat meat because they don't want to contribute to the death of animals, because they thinks its cruel or otherwise, that would appear be a fair reason to me.
But I always find it mixed up in frothy bs like "its not actually good for you" and "we're not meant to eat meat" and "how can you eat rabbits? they are so cute". Additionally I've encountered condemnation of my meat eating for similar reasons.
Furthermore a significant number of non-religious vegetarians I've met are into such claptrap as homeopathy and crystal healing and the whole thing is bundled together in some hippy nonsense about energies or whatever.
If you choose not to contribute to the taking of life just because you don't want things to die because of you I do not, and cannot, take issue with that because its a rational opinion to hold.
Ulukai on 17/12/2012 at 08:50
I had a Reindeer burger in Reykjavík. It was a tasty, tasty burger, better than most other burgers I've ever had.
Made even more tasty by the fact that I wasn't the one who ordered the petrified shark meat.
