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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social |
Every single time American’s very negative reaction to eating dogs and cats comes up, someone has to show up to explain that it’s a cultural thing, as if the vast majority of reasonably-sentient people were not already aware of this.
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NoHomers Diary
@nohomers.bsky.social
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I personally don't eat mammals, but my strict rule for whether I would eat an animal if I ever changed that policy is roughly "is it as smart as a dog?" Because I definitely wouldn't eat a dog, therefore it's intellectually inconsistent to eat any animal as smart as or smarter than a dog.
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your buddy eric
@ericplais.bsky.social
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I worry that someone will take the argument the wrong way and read it as “we should not be mad at RFK because he did something akin to eating a pig” because the points are basically the same in that argument
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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cultures have hangups about food. this in itself shouldn’t be controversial. but people love to argue online
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Dag.
@3fecta.bsky.social
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People feel the same about whale hunting, except in parts of Japan, Scandinavia, and Inuit cultures.
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Cris (without an H)
@ambignostic.bsky.social
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Over and over, people keep thinking "this is cultural" somehow means "this isn't real"
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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I react negatively to the idea of eating horse meat...and being tricked into eating it as a teenager by people in Belgium, where it's normal, did not help. But I will stand up for people's right to eat horse meat (although ideally from horses raised for meat). What I love to say to people who...
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Anthrodiva
@anthrodiva.bsky.social
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Interestingly, no culture has a tradition of eating cats, per the Oxford Dictionary of Food. (And also my anecdotal evidence as an anthropologist who has been all over the world eating everything on offer)
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@patriciashannon.bsky.social
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A large proportion of people are not reasonably sentient.
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ProzacElf
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I do think it's interesting that the US seems to be one of the few cultures where horse meat is considered taboo to the point of even having a lot of laws against selling it I think the breakpoints for how upset we get are mostly when something moves from livestock to working animal to pet
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Izzy Seabiscuit
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it’s like, great, you’re very multicultural, we are all in awe, RFK is running for president in the USA
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Elijah Davis
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They’re gonna think I worshipped my pets like on Egyptian level from all the photos and resources I’ve dumped into my 4 legged overlord.
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@roudy1.bsky.social
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other cultures eat them along with rodents and horses but RFK jr is not part of any of those cultures
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