>Taiwan becomes first country in Asia to ban eating of cat and dog meat
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/taiwan-becomes-first-country-asia-ban-eating-cat-and-dog-meat/Taiwan-becomes.htm
I don't support this
Meanwhile euros keep eating horses
The enlightened practices of the west should be brought everywhere.
I support this.
I do not support this. While I do not believe in eating cats and dogs, so long as you kill an animal humanely, there is nothing wrong with eating it, so long as its not a human, dolphin, elephant or chimp.
>>73476814
>implying there is something wrong in this
>>>mlp
>>73477001
>[...] so long as its not a human, dolphin, elephant or chimp.
muh dolphins
muh elephants
Provided that kills are done ethically, there's no reason to ban consumption of dolphins/elephants. The only principled limitation on meat consumption is within the family Hominidae: that means no orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, humans, etc.
>>73477146
>The only principled limitation on meat consumption is within the family Hominidae
There's nothing wrong with eating them though your distinctions are just as arbitrary as his.
>>73477146
except that
>elephants are endangered
>it's not done for meat but for ivory and sport
>>73477206
This. Objectively speaking human meat is edible, but it is taboo to eat it outside some snall cultures. Just put the brainmatter to the bin to not catch diseases.
>>73477281
No, Elephants are hunted for their meat alot. Those going for Ivory also take the meat as the by product of the hunt for sale or consumption of the party.if they desire.
>>73477281
African elephants are not endangered everywhere though. In some African countries they can sustain a large population of elephants where older males can be harvested.
>>73477474
Just wondering if there was a meat that cost $13.60 a pound how does that range on the scale of expensive meats?
>>73477546
dunno about the meat markets of Africa, but here in Florida beef is like 2-3$ a pound, and I've seen alligator as much as 11-12$ a pound.
>>73477636
Because according to Wikipedia
>Forest elephants in Africa are normally around 5,000 to 6,000 pounds. While the ivory may be sold for around $180 (in 2007), a poacher could sell the meat (approximately 1,000 pounds) for up to $6,000. During this time, Africans living in the Congo Basin were earning an average of around $1 per day.
>>73477206
This
Also we should be eating anything that has a low population, especially not endangered. To me that the only limitation, maybe humans too, for reasons of social cohesiveness and so we don't have some popular cannibalistic cult arising and regressing the world or something.
>>73477937
*Shoudn't