Meat!

[johnckirk]

One for the meat eaters here. Well, vegetarians are also welcome to vote/comment, but I can probably guess what you're going to say :)

Over on my main website, I've explained my reasons for going vegetarian. In particular, I realised that I had a double standard, where I didn't like the idea of eating things that were cute and fluffy (specifically

Comments

[rjw1]

although from what ive read they probably arnt that tasty. also they are slightly lacking in meat.

I Have....

[sammoore]

I have eaten dog, while I was in Tibet. It looked like, and had the texture of, the sort of tough lamb you get in bad Indian restaurants.

I didn't order it, before anyone asks, it came as part of the only meal they served, a buffet on one of those roundabouts in the middle of a table.

It wasn't particularly unpleasant, just a little chewy.

I never found out what breed it was, probably not a pedigree though.

[karne_k]

as bob says, most comments i've suggest they don't taste very good, most carnivores don't. I'll happily eat deer, duck or kangaroo though.

[rjw1]

the extreme food book ive read suggestes that dog is best served in its own bile. this really doesnt fill em with much hope of it really tastign good.

[elvum]

I'm happy to be inconsistent. Not that I particularly care much about cats and dogs, but I wouldn't eat them for the same reason Muslims won't eat pork: it just seems disgusting and unnatural. Since I've been eating cows, pigs etc since before my opinions formed, it's perfectly natural and normal to me to do so.

The way I see it, to be human is to be inconsistent. There are some areas where I believe it's right to fight this (countering sexism and racism, for example), and others where I really don't care (such as this example, or the fact that I'm only likely to pick up hitchhikers if they're obviously climbers). This is itself an inconsistency, and I don't care about it either. :-)

[terpsichore1980]

I like to think I take a more or less consistent approach with food (if not with anything else). I will try anything once as long as it doesn't involve mayonnaise and it doesn't look at me while I am trying to eat it. That means that I would (given the opportunity) try most things, haggis I quite like so bad example, but I would try eyeballs if called upon to do so, or (as in a book I was reading recently) bulls testicles if it would be rude not to.

That doesn't mean that I don't think "eww" at the idea, but then there are lots of foods where I choose not to think about the contents, anything pre-packaged for a start (flavour enhancers etc, eww).