Chinese Astronauts ate Dog meat

I've eaten venison, moose, buffalo (American Bison), rabbit, squirrel, and opossum. I don't think I've eaten raccoon, but I'm not sure.

Tom

 

Over the years, I have sampled some atypical foods:
fruit bat, sea cucumber, whelk, giant oyster - Micronesia
shark - Indian Ocean
whale - Finland (texture much like Kobe beef -Japan)
ostrich - Virginia
alligator - Florida
bear -Alaska

IMHO, only Kobe beef is worth a second taste...

While in Micronesia, there is the possibility that I unknowingly
ate dog, which was/is euphemistically named, "pig Ponapean style."

Frank discussion of eating dogs, including the now extinct Hawaiian
poi dog.

"Cat Relatives, mostly civets and palm civets, are eaten in China and
Southeast Asia, and are suspected of introducing dangerous viral
diseases to humans (the recent SARS outbreak). They are captured
wild and not raised under controlled conditions."

From here.

Finallly...

 

I'm okay with that

A can of Spam would barely whet my appetite

It truly is a matter of cultural perspective

Raccoon is ok, but you've had far tastier critters.

I like Bison. Yum!

 

I've had both dog and cat. Don't like the latter at all, but the former is very good.

 

The reason the dolphins are slaughtered are not to supply school lunches but because they eat the fish which is the livelihood of the local fisherman. Together with the "whaling for research" excuse Japan gives, slaughtering and hunting of dolphins and whales are unacceptable. Efforts by Sea Shepherd and the like are wrong in that it tries to stop the practice. Instead, they should concentrate on offering the fishermen an alternative lucrative business so they won't hunt any more.

 

Dog meat ain't bad tasting...

I agree...

Bear tastes bad too...

 

I thought SARS and Madcow are from the current livestock animals.

 

Yes, but it should distract you long enough that I can get a running headstart. :madgrin:

 

My dog will eat me before I eat her. I think she'll wait until after I'm dead, but in any disaster/starvation scenario, I'm sure she'll outlast me. She's a much better hunter, and a far less picky eater.

 

you know why dog is popular? the population is asia is so big that a animal tha reproduses so fast and in such big numbers and is so comonly found like adog or cat is a prime candidate to make it on the table for diner.unlike pigs they can scavenge for food on theyer own.lately i hear that they let the loose ones live but they have dog farms! i bet it tastes ok if one is hungry!

 

I only once ever ate Spam. It would have been around 1967 and there was a city-wide meat-cutter's strike in L.A. I come from a union family and I will not cross a picket line. So instead of the meat counter, I bought a can of Spam. It was so awful that I went without meat for the two weeks the strike lasted. By that time I realized that I could live quite well without meat, and I became a vegetarian and never ate meat again.

I thought I was a misanthrope, but you've got me beat by a country mile, Jayman!

 

Son, I sure hope you can run faster than I can

Over the years, I wonder if all those folks I sat next to on long airline flights, my tummy rumbling, knew what I was REALLY thinking?

 

I love my leather seats...

 

Personally, I find the idea of eating meat to be repulsive. But almost everyone I know eats meat. I see no difference between eating cow or pig, as virtually all my friends do, and eating dog, as is common in parts of Asia.

As for leather seats, I don't like them, but a lot of Prius drivers prefer them. In the first couple of years, a majority of Prius owners were environmentalists, not not animal rights activists. I don't think there's much overlap between environmentalism and animal rights. And now the Prius is so mainstream that you cannot even expect Prius owners to be environmentalists anymore. Most people buying the Prius now just like it for being a well-made car that's good value for the money and gets good gas mileage.

 

I grew up on a farm / ranch raising beef for food -- and hunting too -- and to this day remain mystified why the eating of some cute cuddly furry creatures causes a huge public uproar, while eating other equally cute cuddly furry creatures is accepted as normal. The dividing line seems based upon cultural habituation, not fundamental reason.

I won't stop anyone from eating animals there were specifically raised for food. Even cats and dogs. But I do object to converting other people's companion animals to food, which pretty well covers stray, trapped, and shelter cats and dogs in North America.

Prius, or anything else that has gone mainstream, will draw buyers from a great many viewpoints.

 

I eat almost anything they stock in the supermarket. I am against eating dogs and cats, but I suppose that is cultural.