dog days
Beijing takes dog off the menu to look better for some kind of sports thing. Apparently they haven't yet caved in on the issue of donkey meat. Any meat eaters out there want to comment on where they draw the line? My line's just after eggs.
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1 comment:
This is an interesting question. I feel fortunate to live in such prosperity that I can draw a line based on anything other than "what can I get my hands on?" or "what will be fatal if I eat it?" (Immediately, that is. Fugu fatal, not McRib fatal.) My philosophy is that there are certain molecules that we use to live, and if those molecules are in other animals, we eat the animals to get their molecules. It isn't always pretty, but it's undeniably functional or we wouldn't have evolved the sort of teeth and digestive systems that make it work.
(One can make the argument that we've developed technologically to the point where we can supplement our diets with these molecules without having to kill anything cute. If steak were any less tasty, I might agree.)
So my line is typically just beyond steak, chicken, and the lovely crustaceans of the sea. Not because of guilt, but just because those are the things I like. (I also don't eat tomatoes, but not because I think they deserve to live. They DO NOT. Just ask a young George Clooney - they're a menace.)
In a starvation situation, I'm sure I would eat a dog or a donkey, or even a horse rectum without Joe Rogan paying me to. But, day-to-day, I stick with burgers and tasty steaks. (And McDonald's, which I suppose is processed paper pulp and beef tallow. But yummy!)
I figure it can't really be helped if other cultures draw their lines in other places; that's sort of the point of other cultures. But it's also the point of having the Olympics in different places every time - to share these things and learn about other ways of life. So it's ridiculous for China to be tidying up their treatment of dogs (but not necessarily Tibetans) in order to appear more palatable to American visitors. (I'm assuming it's Americans they're worried about, since most other countries happily eat all kinds of stuff way crazier than puppies.)
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