Random Thought Thread

David Mary said:
There was an Asian restaurant in my home town that was the subject of many rumors that they had more than once trapped, killed, and served stray cat.
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Was in the boonies in South East Asia quite some time back. Limited options for meals, but there was a quarry nearby. We decided to check out a place that served the quarry workers (no one seemed to particularly care).

The cafeteria(?) was just inside the property (the quarry was fenced, and there was a gate, but the gate seemed to always be wide open, and we walked right in and sat down). The actual quarry was further in, and we never went past the cafeteria (where there might be safety concerns).

The food was actually pretty good (it wasn’t a workman’s compensated/free cafeteria. It just seems to be a cash only open walled restaurant/cafeteria).

First afternoon having lunch there, “The food here is actually really tasty! Prices are cheap, too.” (Then again, food prices are comparatively really cheap in SEA. I recall a group of 8 of us going to a seaside restaurant back in the late 80s/early 90s, literally picking out fresh/live fish, crabs and squid from a catch the fisherman just brought in, for the restaurant to cook, and eating until we were stuffed. The whole bill came to ~$50 USD).

One comment though, was several people remarking, “This curry is SO good! But I can’t tell what meat this is. It’s not beef. Doesn’t seem like pork we’re used to. Maybe wild boar?”.

I think it was the 5th day eating there, that someone remarked, “Ummm… y’all notice something? There’s always lots of stray dogs around the cafeteria, scrounging for scraps. But… over the last few days… I noticed I don’t see the same dogs…”. I think that was the last meal we had there.

Can’t be sure it was what we were all thinking, but you’d think that a bunch of strays looking for food, would always hang around some place they knew they’d get scraps.
 
The reality is humans eat other animals. Some cultures revere cows and will not eat them. Some revere dogs, or cats. In my opinion, cats are friends, dogs are friends, in someone else's opinion, the burgers I ate nearly every Tuesday of last year were their ancestors, or someone's. I honestly have no issue with any animals being eaten in the culture that does not consider it a taboo, as long as the animals are dispatched humanely. But don't go the to the USA and kill/eat/serve dogs or cats, but don't go Iran and do the same with pigs, or India with cows.
 
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