• minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Mostly we listen to our hearts…and stomachs…they sort of decide between themselves and let us know.

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    The divide is most often made between carnivore and herbivore. “Shit” flows up, meaning all the nasty stuff an animal eats lower in the food chain, goes up and accumulates in their predators. Carnivore meat is usually more disease ridden and unhealthy for consumption. Our culture has kinda evolved to this point naturally as a protection mechanism.

    It’s also the reason you should avoid eating too much of bigger fish species due to heavy metals. Smaller fish don’t absorb as much, but bigger fish accumulates heavy metal for each small fish they eat.

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      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?

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        I think you misunderstood the argument.

        It’s okay to eat puppies and kittens because they haven’t accumulated as much 😌

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          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.

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            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?

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        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.

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    The only conclusion that can be drawn is the maker of the graph tried them and listed them based on deliciousness

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    Pretty sure all mammals are edible so I guess the line should be all the way left.

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    French bulldogs are not obviously more delicious than English bulldogs because they use more butter.

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        I often wonder which animals would just go extinct if we stopped farming them. And which ones would trade in a shorter life of food, shelter, safety, and health instead of being in the wild and surviving, constantly preyed on.

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          Animals aren’t concerned with extinction and don’t have committees to vote on what kind of life they should have. They just want to live.

          Many would go extinct as they were bred to be killed, not to survive in nature. I’m not sure if you were going there, but that’s not an argument to not stop farming them. The intention here is to stop this cycle where hundreds of billions a year are born into a disfigured body, then live hell and suffering and misery then killed. They should go extinct and that should stop.

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            They just want to live.

            animal cognitive behaviourists who study the subject have not found proof that non human animals understand personal mortality. that is, they don’t understand that they, themselves, might die. if you don’t know that you might die, you can’t meaningfully be said to want to live.

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                  I’m not even making any claims that are not truisms. Just common knowledge obtained by everyone that has ever had any contact with any animal.

                  But you do you. I don’t want to continue with this. Be well, happy holidays.

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          Well, Aurochs has gone extinct because of humans. Domesticated cow would likely have huge mortality rates due to inflamed udders the first few generations (things like this fix themselves fast).

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      Can confirm. I’ve tasted dog; Not that good.

      Horses are excellent sausage material though.

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      I draw the line to the right of horse, because we have bred those animals for thousands of years as food.

      Thats why they taste the best.

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      Does raw pork taste good?

      Or is it the dish that tastes good, a.k.a how it’s prepared and seasoned?

      For example, I hate fish, but Fish’n’chips is amazing, because there’s barely any taste of fish.

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        Some folks say that all meat is disgusting if you haven’t eaten it in a large amount of time. I definitely know there are meats, completely unseasoned, that I like and dislike. Pork is a big ugh from me.

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          Even without seasoning, change the cut and cooking method makes a huge difference.

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          I don’t think this is true for most people. I will eat food that has meat in it if it’s just going to go bad or be thrown away, but that’s extremely rare and it’s the same as I remember it from when I used to eat it. So probably once every 1-3 years. maybe it would be different if it was like 10+ years. Definitely with milk it is immediately obvious anything that has it and it tastes pretty gross now.

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          Some folks say that all meat is disgusting if you haven’t eaten it in a large amount of time.

          Oh, I dunno about that. Have you ever seen a vegetarian relapse? They’ll murder you if you try to take it off them.

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    Because PETA is a piece of shit organization that doesn’t actually require or deserve that kind of consideration.