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Well, what's the problem with eating, say, gorillas, if done in a sustainable way? You don't need to be a card-carrying PETA vegan to find it quite off-putting
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
Well, what's the problem with eating, say, gorillas, if done in a sustainable way?
You don't need to be a card-carrying PETA vegan to find it quite off-putting to eat self-aware social animals with some of the world's largest brains.
- cgh 6y ago> Well, what's the problem with eating, say, gorillas, if done in a sustainable way? There's no problem with eating these animals if it's a cultural norm. Many indigenous peoples in Africa, eg the Bari of Sudan, eat monkeys and other apes. Whales have been hunted in Canada by aboriginal peoples since time immemorial. It doesn't matter how smart or social you are. Someone or something unsympathetic is going to eat you, and it just might be humans who don't share your (actually our) ethical ideas.
- WalterBright 6y agoMaybe humans can be better.
- rixed 6y agoThis defense of anthropophagy (or, why stop there and not include also human sacrifices) in the name of cultural norm, was intended to be sarcastic, wasn't it?
- nullsense 6y agoI like the dish "Whale bacon". It's pretty un-PC, but would eat again.
- fomine3 6y agoI wish christians not to regulate all over the world in their way.
- jaspax 6y agoI'll happily bite that bullet: in principle there is nothing wrong with eating gorillas. Or whales, or dolphins, or whatever other non-human species we're projecting onto today.
- young_unixer 6y agoI don't draw the line in the consciousness-of-the-animal dimension. I draw the line on the life conditions of the animal dimension. There's nothing wrong with killing gorillas and eating them as long as we don't imprison them for life in overcrowded farms like we do with chicken, pigs and cows. Killing animals while they're free in their natural habitat is fine, or at least it's 1000x better than what we currently do.