Chicha wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, then, I guess that's why I'm not a farmer.
I guess I would have a problem actually *eating*
a pig with a name, but I sure couldn't kill it.

When I used to spend a lot of time on my grandfather's
family's farm they often killed a chicken for dinner.
I would have nothing to do with it - couldn't even
watch! But once it was dead I loved helping to clean
it and as a preteen I was big on science and biology
so used to do experiments while cleaning a chicken like
measuring the length of the intestines. I also would
save the heads in a jar of alcohol and then at a later
time I would dissect them. I loved dissecting eyeballs.
None of this grossed me out. And I loved eating the
chicken, but I was "chicken" to kill one.

> > 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.

I realise that, but I was just talking about what
would be considered moral vs. immoral, not about what
would happened in any particular place if you ate any
particular animal. You could consider it perfect
moral to eat a pig but refrain if you were in Iran
because you knew what the dominant culture felt about
it. Or you could do it in secret. ;-)

Anyway, as far as I am concerned I still consider it
a personal choice. However if a person subscribes to
a particular religion and accepts all their tenets that's
their problem.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?