If you are going days with out food of any kind ,or only have urine
poured through the poles over the hole you are a captive in the only water
you see, the fact a bug is a whole meal. A rat is the only meal you could
call a meal, you would prayer for a cat or dog or even anothe rat .
please don't reply with your mouth full f
ps please don't think of an egg as a animal or you will
get,Real bad pains in your gut
re
guards to all
ronnie >
I know most people abhor the idea of eating a dog - or a cat, or a
> horse, for that matter. While I have tried none of these, the only
> reasons are that a) I have not been offered it by someone who does cook
> it and b) I have never been hungry enough to have to eat it. It's easy
> to look down our noses at people who eat animals that we do not normally
> recognize as food sources, but we can only afford to do so because we
> have not been on the brink of starvation ourselves. In those
> circumstances, people can't afford to be picky. I'd sure as shoot cook a
> dog, cat, horse (or any other edible animal) before I'd let my child
> starve to death. I'd kill and cook rats before I'd let my child die of
> hunger.
> What I don't know is if carnivores should be processed differently that
> herbivores. I seem to remember hearing long ago that human beings must
> be more careful with the meat of carnivores due to the risk of
> carnivores being more of a potential source of disease and/or parasites
> than herbivores are. I would have to research this to be certain of the
> answer.
> Actually, I'm rather against the ban on processing horsemeat here in the
> United States. While I don't personally desire to sit down to an equine
> meal, horses are considered farm animals - and the only way to logically
> dispose of farm animals that are no longer useful is to butcher them.
> Better that than letting them slowly starve to death and become fodder
> for an episode "Animal Cops Houston", for heavens sake.
> There are people who go hungry here in the United States. This is not
> just a Third World issue. Can we really logically ban the consumption of
> certain species simply because we are emotionally attached to them or
> because they are "cute"? That makes no sense.
> ALL animals should be treated humanely and their lives made as
> satisfying as is possible. All animals used as a food source should be
> dispatched by humane methods - always. (In other words, we should treat
> animals more humanely than we normally treat each other.)
> There is a heavy Caribbean influence where I live, and goat is routinely
> offered in the grocery stores are cater to Hispanics. There are other
> meats that I cannot identify that animal that they came from. Chris (my
> son) says goat is pretty good, so I may try it sometime this summer. If
> course, he also says hippo is also pretty good, but I don't think I'll
> find that offered around here any time in the near future.
> With boas and pythons taking over the Everglades and other parts of
> South Florida, perhaps we should develop a taste for snake and make the
> critters worth catching. I mean, some of those snakes are HUGE and would
> provide a lot of meat to someone who is hungry.
> But I'm still glad I buried my 22-year-old cat out in the garden by the
> bird bath and didn't fricassee her when she died.
> Di
> Central Florida Zone 9a/b
>
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