"Thus we are reminded that the one on top of the food chain are the humans"
The last episode of Uchuten Kazoku gives an interesting subject of discussion over food, and its connections with "morality".
The pretext is given by Hotei, who has a fondness for tanuki, but at the same time can eat them in a hotpot with no remorse of any sort:
As an unrepentant carnivore, this is my exact feelings, and I can totally understand the words of Hotei here.
When I eat meat, I don't feel like some kind of lord who's just given what is due. I'm grateful to the animal who gave its life so to provide me with a delicious meal, and all I feel when I eat meat is joy and gratefulness.
I can't stand all those vegans and vegetarians who made of food a moral issue. It's ok if you don't like the taste, or if it's for dietary or health reasons, but "I love animals" is a reason that I can't accept. It feels hypocrital, arrogant and extremely untactful towards a creature like me who's just doing what nature tells them to do: to be an omnivore.
It's like those morons who dislike tigers, lions or sharks because they are predators. Like those who "cheer" for the gazelle when a jaguar is running after it to hunt it--
--Then, well, yeah, I guess that since we live in a world where there is all kind of delicious food available I could just eat something else and let living stuff to live, but--
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The pretext is given by Hotei, who has a fondness for tanuki, but at the same time can eat them in a hotpot with no remorse of any sort:
As an unrepentant carnivore, this is my exact feelings, and I can totally understand the words of Hotei here.
When I eat meat, I don't feel like some kind of lord who's just given what is due. I'm grateful to the animal who gave its life so to provide me with a delicious meal, and all I feel when I eat meat is joy and gratefulness.
I can't stand all those vegans and vegetarians who made of food a moral issue. It's ok if you don't like the taste, or if it's for dietary or health reasons, but "I love animals" is a reason that I can't accept. It feels hypocrital, arrogant and extremely untactful towards a creature like me who's just doing what nature tells them to do: to be an omnivore.
It's like those morons who dislike tigers, lions or sharks because they are predators. Like those who "cheer" for the gazelle when a jaguar is running after it to hunt it--
--Then, well, yeah, I guess that since we live in a world where there is all kind of delicious food available I could just eat something else and let living stuff to live, but--
Originally posted at http://daeva-neesan.dreamwidth.org/537996.html
If you want, please comment there :3