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The time I ate dog.
I'm a bit of an adventurous eater; I still regret passing up lamb's testicles a few months ago when I was in Syria, but there are few things I won't try, given a chance. I was travelling in China, attending a friend's wedding. One night (the day after the landslide trapped us in a rural village, if I recall correctly -- it was an awesome trip), ...
Posted to Human Nature by ByeByeBaby on April 17, 2008
Eating Dogs?
One society's meat is another society's poison. European-descended cultures regard dogs as domesticated companion animals, hunting partners, herders of flocks, and protection animals. We wouldn't eat them any more than we would eat our best friend. Yet in Oriental societies, eating dogs is commonplace since they aren't considered as domesticated ...
Posted to Human Nature by Vienna54 on April 17, 2008
man-made fallacy
The fact that the existence of our domestic companions is due, or at least very strongly contingent on, human efforts is usually raised as an excuse to treat them as disposable property. Life, they say, no matter how short and painful is better than no life. in that use, the argument is without force. We are all children, and very few of us ...
Posted to Human Nature by mcgr0218 on April 17, 2008