On Mar 10, 6:01 am, "tg"
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rdfmedia.com"
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>>> On 9 Mar, 12:34, "Daniel T."
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>>> "tg"
earthlink.net> wrote:>>>> Is it more offensive to eat dogs or to eat monkeys? (Don't start in
>>>> with horses, please---that's just a white woman thing.)
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>>>> On the one hand, monkeys are pretty close relatives to humans and have
>>>> human features and mannerisms. But dogs, with a little work, worship
>>>> us like little children.
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>>>> Different human cultures (non-western of course) eat one or the other,
>>>> sometimes both. What is more offensive to western sensibilities? Tough
>>>> call.
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>>> If I had to choose between them? I'd have to taste both before I could
>>> decide. Why would anything other than taste and nutrition factor into
>>> what I eat?
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>> Yeah I agree, in the context of the original question, I would ask
>> what if neither was considered offensive?
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> There was some news recently about selling horses for meat--- people
> find that offensive.
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> Something set me to thinking about it, some mention of chimps eating
> monkeys perhaps. But the question only becomes meaningful if you have
> to kill the thing yourself, and not from afar with a rifle. I would
> have trouble with the juveniles though, I'm pretty sure.
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A Chinese man recently said to me, "you kill and eat according to your
feelings towards what is killed and then eaten by you."
We used to have a few pet sheep running around in our orchard, we
could never kill and eat those particular sheep (we sold them) and yet
we killed and ate other sheep that we had no feelings towards.
However, if there was a dog and or a monkey between me and starvation,
the dog or monkey would lose, pet or no pet.
Interesting, a maori chief of the early to mid 1800s in NZ named Honi
Hiki, according to recorded eye witness acounts, his favourite meat
was still-born babies, musta been a relation of that borg cockhead.
MG
