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Vindication? The broad (though not universal) taboo against eating primate meat has some basis in the higher risk of shared/cross-species diseases, due to a cl
by gojomo 13y ago
Vindication?
The broad (though not universal) taboo against eating primate meat has some basis in the higher risk of shared/cross-species diseases, due to a closer genetic relationship.
If there's a little pig in us, that'd argue for stronger taboos against eating pork... exactly as in Judaism and Islam.
- duncan_bayne 13y agoYes - I think many religious taboos have their basis in sensible food hygiene and incest avoidance. But that's not how it's pitched; often the claim is that "pigs are unclean". Which is why it'd be funny.
- floobynewb 13y ago@gojomo, this is what I had thought the original poster meant. Shame it was a better, nicer joke that way around.