Kate Connally > wrote in message >...
> 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.

You are lucky.
Small rural farms are known breeding grounds for immorality ;-)

> I guess I would have a problem actually *eating*
> a pig with a name, but I sure couldn't kill it.

I have a confession to make:
I took part in murder of Boris the boar back in 1983.
Nobody had guts/skills to kill the beast with a knife.
Had somebody shot him into the ear finally.
(One special thing about guns - make killing much easier to commit).
Pork was delicious, anyway.

More confessions to follow.

>
> When I used to spend a lot of time on my grandfather's
> family's farm they often killed a chicken for dinner.

Had animals names there? I bet they had.

> 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.

Easy. They scan Internet for serial killers, you know.
I should google for "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

I think "particular" is the key word for that matter.
Eating some cat suddenly becames moral during particular time
of WWII to save your child from hunger.(I am not sure about
particular cat still).
In some particular province of China most people (that means
half billion :-) ) loves dog's ribs stewed.

> 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. ;-)

My fault,I should not choose such extreme case.
Let's not speak religion, speak cuisine.Much safer :-)

>
> Anyway, as far as I am concerned I still consider it
> a personal choice. However if a person subscribes to

Yes, but within cultural bounds.
Less diversified - more bounds.
BTW, I read somewhere that cuisine is last die national
distinction. Agree? I do.
Say, when last time you were tempted by fried crickets? :-)

> a particular religion and accepts all their tenets that's
> their problem.

Inshalla.

>
> Kate

Nick (Chicha).