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This is the route I took. I'm a meat-eater and eat plenty of it (including pork, which someone else mentioned in this thread), but I decided to stop eating octo
by smeyer 10y ago
This is the route I took. I'm a meat-eater and eat plenty of it (including pork, which someone else mentioned in this thread), but I decided to stop eating octopodes. It feels a little funny compared to people who avoid meat in general or eat all of it, but at least for now it's the only thing I don't eat.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoI bet there are other mammals you 'don't' eat - at least, that you'd refuse to eat. Man is the obvious one, but what about other primates, elephants, giraffes, etc.? I bet there are more animals that you don't eat than you do, and maybe there are even more that you would not be prepared to eat than you would.
- overcast 10y agoAt the end of the day, if it comes down to me or that animal, I'm choosing me. But that's not the reality for any of us on Hacker News. A lot of us have more money than we know what to do with, we don't struggle feed ourselves, we're not out hunting animals in the woods. We can make choices.
- kefka 10y agoNot really.. I would consider heating human. I have nothing against another mammal. However, I would require humane treatment of said human (or any animal or byproduct I eat). I'm not going to pretend I'm some morally superior being. But I'd like to at least reduce suffering of beings. After all, something else must die for me to eat (and I can't live on milk and honey).
- Chos89 10y agoThis can't be serious
- coldcode 10y agoI don't care for eating them either. I imagine them someday becoming the dominant species and eating us in return.
- logfromblammo 10y agoI don't fear that at all. The males die after mating and the females starve to death on their egg brood. So there is no inter-generational knowledge transfer. They would revert back to natural tool users with each succeeding generation. As an order, they wouldn't even be able to dominate house cats.