Random Thought Thread

David Mary said:
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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We didn’t live on a farm, but had enough land to try raising chickens. I think I was 4 or 5, and my brother was 2 years older.

We raised those things like pets, not knowing any better. Yeah, we cried when we learned that the chicken dinner, were those ‘pets’. I guess my parents should’ve explained things a little better, when we were raising them. That was the end of raising our own chickens. 😂
 
David Mary said:
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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Totally agree.
Especially when it comes to the culture of the place you’re visiting and what you eat there.
Plus, you know, there’s context to it all…

Like, the cultures that ate dogs or cats eventually gave it up themselves — because let’s be real, they didn’t do it because they wanted to. It was usually extreme hunger, desperation, no other choice.

I actually knew my great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and they told stories about what they had to eat during the war… oh man… But turning that into some kind of “dish”? 😅
To me it feels like certain foods and dishes should just stay in history. Like: dude, people ate that NOT because they WANTED to!

By the way, my wife and I were in Turkey during Ramadan, and we were calmly eating pork in cafés, and I was buying it in stores too — and honestly, it seemed like nobody there care…

I absolutely love beef — like, 80% of the time I’m eating red beef.
I feel really sorry for the cow, but damn, it’s the tastiest meat 🥹

Plus, when I decide to eat it… I mean, the cow’s already been killed anyway, right?

So if you don’t eat meat, just know — someone was counting on you when they were hauling it to the stores or whatever 😅
 
bluemax_1 said:
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.
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I once was at a customer dinner in Taiwan (~15 years ago?) where they had cages in front of the restaurant with dogs and cats for you to pick.

I had sea food.
 
SharpBits said:
Ah, nope. At least not in some provinces in China. You DO NOT want to know how it is prepared either.
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Yeah. Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia… they all have areas where dog meat is still considered a delicacy.

Granted, this was in the 80s, but I wound up sitting next to a Korean guy in his 40s on the flight to Taiwan (family vacation). The entire flight, the guy proceeded to tell me the whole process his family used to prepare and cook dog meat, and how good it was. My ~14 year old self 🤢

Then during the vacation (canned vacation. Tour buses and tour guides), they took us to a night street market. “Oh look! What cute puppies!”. My mom goes, “Those aren’t being sold as pets”. 😧

Similarly, on a vacation in Indonesia island of Sumatra, in the volcanic Lake Toba area, one of the locals goes, “Yes, the locals in this region consider dogs a delicacy. We’ve had foreigners bring their small dogs here, and let them off leash, and never find them again”.
 
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