On 26 Nov 2003 09:47:27 -0800, (Chicha) wrote:

Kate Connally wrote in message ...
Chicha wrote:

Kate Connally wrote in message ...
Kenneth Leja wrote:

Asian countries like China think it's okay. Koreans think beating a
dog to death will release hormones that will make human eaters
sexually more virile.

Is this okay or is it just Western cultural bias that finds this
custom kinda sick?

I think it's okay if you haven't named them.
You should never eat anything with a name.

Hey, you are finding excuses.
Would you ate pig known to you as number 48/7 :-)
Generally speaking, your suggestion is to never
eat an animal you have personal relations with?
That is not what happens in small farms.

Well, then, I guess that's why I'm not a farmer.

You are lucky.
Small rural farms are known breeding grounds for immorality ;-)

I guess I would have a problem actually *eating*
a pig with a name, but I sure couldn't kill it.

I have a confession to make:
I took part in murder of Boris the boar back in 1983.
Nobody had guts/skills to kill the beast with a knife.
Had somebody shot him into the ear finally.
(One special thing about guns - make killing much easier to commit).
Pork was delicious, anyway.


Well, killing dogs for food isn't much of a crime, but torturing it
with slow death is BIG time crime. Japan history has a culture of
torture both for sport and study - from Shogun to Unit 731 - and they
include humans! Hope history does not repeat, come future wars.

Why resort to torture? It only brings out the ugly side of a people,
nothing to brag about even if it is for 'scientific research'. Unit
731 put on a stain and stigma on the Japanese, which will take several
more decades to erase. Nothing glorious for sure, whether it is for
the emperor or not.