I think the point isn’t about practicality, but ethics. It’s less practical to eat carnivores, but is it unethical? If it’s ethical to kill and eat a cow, is it also ethical to kill and eat a horse? A dog? A cat?
I had a professor who was native american, and yeah, he spoke quite honestly about how they breed the dogs for meat, and the puppy is more tender. He said his friends would always joke with him when he went back to the reservation for holidays. I can’t remember the exact joke, but it was something about how he would have to dig deep into the stew because the puppy was at the bottom.
would have to dig deep into the stew because the puppy was at the bottom
I am having a hard time getting that.
If puppy is more tender, it would be because its tissue is lighter and composed more of fat and areolar tissue than muscle and dense connective tissue. Then in a stew full of meat from multiple ages of dog and what not, the puppy should be more buoyant than the dog, making it float higher.
How then, does the puppy end up at the bottom?
Some parts of my country used to eat & sell dog meat during WW2. Now not anymore, for above reasons.
I think it’s perfectly clear; the line is neccessity and taste vs. friend and practicality.
Also, third-level consumers are a waste of ressources in most cases, due to metabolic inefficiencies.
And yeah, horse meat is still a thing. Moschtbrökli (some dried good parts kept in apple juice) a more or less local speciality. Quite tasty btw.
I think the point isn’t about practicality, but ethics. It’s less practical to eat carnivores, but is it unethical? If it’s ethical to kill and eat a cow, is it also ethical to kill and eat a horse? A dog? A cat?
I think you misunderstood the argument.
It’s okay to eat puppies and kittens because they haven’t accumulated as much 😌
I had a professor who was native american, and yeah, he spoke quite honestly about how they breed the dogs for meat, and the puppy is more tender. He said his friends would always joke with him when he went back to the reservation for holidays. I can’t remember the exact joke, but it was something about how he would have to dig deep into the stew because the puppy was at the bottom.
I am having a hard time getting that.
If puppy is more tender, it would be because its tissue is lighter and composed more of fat and areolar tissue than muscle and dense connective tissue. Then in a stew full of meat from multiple ages of dog and what not, the puppy should be more buoyant than the dog, making it float higher.
How then, does the puppy end up at the bottom?
You’re asking the wrong person.
Is the argument that ethics are a function of accumulation?
Some parts of my country used to eat & sell dog meat during WW2. Now not anymore, for above reasons.
I think it’s perfectly clear; the line is neccessity and taste vs. friend and practicality.
Also, third-level consumers are a waste of ressources in most cases, due to metabolic inefficiencies.
And yeah, horse meat is still a thing. Moschtbrökli (some dried good parts kept in apple juice) a more or less local speciality. Quite tasty btw.
Mostly agree - if you eat meat I don’t think there’s a difference between eating dog and pork.
But surprisingly many people think it is unethical to kill a dog, even if it’s your own dog.
lol, I can’t help but read this as “mushed broccoli” even though there’s no way that’s how it’s pronounced
“Apple juice piece”
The line is ethics and necessity.
Horse + bunny tasty, dog not.