Kate Connally > wrote in message >...
> Kenneth Leja wrote:
> >
> > Asian countries like China think it's okay. Koreans think beating a
> > dog to death will release hormones that will make human eaters
> > sexually more virile.
> >
> > Is this okay or is it just Western cultural bias that finds this
> > custom kinda sick?
>
> I think it's okay if you haven't named them.
> You should never eat anything with a name.

Hey, you are finding excuses.
Would you ate pig known to you as number 48/7 :-)
Generally speaking, your suggestion is to never
eat an animal you have personal relations with?
That is not what happens in small farms.

>
> Seriously, though, as much as I love dogs and
> cats and wouldn't think of eating one, I don't
> think it's inherently immoral, any more so than
> eat a cow or deer or chicken or pig or fish, etc.
> Each person can decide for herself what animals
> she considers proper to eat or whether or not it's
> proper to eat them at all. It's a person choice.

I think cultural restrictions/acceptions of society are
not less influential at least when choosing 'what not to eat'.
One could be lynched for eating pig in Iran.

> Kate

Nick (Chicha).