• @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    214 days ago

    People eat alligator, crocodile, shark, bear, and snake, all of which are or can be carnivorous

    Again, you just make a weird distinction. This isn’t even an “American culture vs Asian culture” thing. Gator and crocodile are pretty big in the southeast.

    But whatever you need to justify killing a pig that has a deeper capacity for emotional intelligence than your dog does as well as stronger ability for numerical reasoning skills and independent thought

    • @doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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      1114 days ago

      Wild boar are invasive, violent and destructive. Our local conservation groups practically beg you to hunt them, and boar season is 51 weeks a year. If you’re going to hunt pig, you might as well eat it. But farm raised pigs definitely taste better.

      • @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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        110 days ago

        But farm raised pigs definitely taste better.

        That depends how it is prepared. Smoked and dried boar sausage is delicious.

    • @argon@lemmy.today
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      1013 days ago

      whatever you need to justify killing a pig

      I don’t need any justification for that lol. I wouldn’t care if people ate dogs either.

      I was just pointing out a traditional norm that people usually don’t eat carnivores (because they are more prone to disease and are much less efficient to farm).

    • @hansolo@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      People in places where there’s a lot of crocs around generally don’t like to eat them because there’s a non-zero chance that you’re eating a croc that ate someone you know. Farmed Crocs are the workaround, but especially across rural southern Africa, there’s as much stigma with croc meat as Americans with horse.

        • trollercoaster
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          914 days ago

          Pigs won’t have the slightest problem with doing so. For feeding someone to chickens, some preparation might be needed due to the chickens’ small size.

        • @hansolo@lemm.ee
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          413 days ago

          If you don’t eat cows first, a cow will kill and eat you and everyone you love.

    • Druid
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      -914 days ago

      Preach. The amount of mental gymnastics displayed by omnis and carnies should make it an Olympic sport. Cognitive dissonance at its finest