The King of Beasts taco....

Henery Hawk wrote:I will never understand why any restaurant would have this as a menu item, much less why someone would order it. After all of the racist jokes about cats being served at local Taqueria or in Chinese restaurants, idiot's are paying 40 bucks for a gato taco.

If I remember correctly, there was a Hill Street Blues episode about the new awesome Chinese Restaurant where all the Officers were piggin and diggin the new culinary delights. Until the found out it was harvesting cats for their oh so yummy meat. Oy....

If I opened a local food stand and started selling cat tacos, would anyone try them, or would they be repulsed...?

The only difference is the size of the cat involved.


Never tried gator tacos, but I have eaten gator meat fixed in various ways and it is delicious.

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Bob wrote:What if we bred lions specifically for human food? Exactly as we do with cows, pigs and chickens.
And after we consider this, the question we need to answer seems to me to have only two possible answers. Either we eat all of it, or we eat none of it.
Because I'm not sure anyone can give me a legitimate argument for why one should have more right to live than the other.

Henery Hawk wrote:

That's a stoopid argument from the get go.

Why not raise dogs for food...? Or rats...?

Bob wrote:

Henery Hawk wrote:

That's a stoopid argument from the get go.

Why not raise dogs for food...? Or rats...?

Well if it's a stoopid argument to maintain that cows and pigs have the same right to live as dogs and rats do, then you would be correct.

PkrBum wrote:The evidence of the first domestication of dogs shows them as a ready food source if needed.

Henery Hawk wrote:

PkrBum wrote:The evidence of the first domestication of dogs shows them as a ready food source if needed.

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Have at it goat roper.

Eat your dogs.

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Henery Hawk wrote:

PkrBum wrote:The evidence of the first domestication of dogs shows them as a ready food source if needed.

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Have at it goat roper.

Eat your dogs.

A delicacy in Asia, mainly Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. Monkey also.

Bob wrote:Some species have been deemed inferior to others just as some races within our own species have been deemed inferior to others too.
Six of one, half dozen of the other.

Henery Hawk wrote:

Spoken like a fan of Soylent Green.

Bob wrote:My only point is the inconsistency and hypocrisy of this whole thing.
We have no objection to slaughtering a cow and eating it. But we have convinced ourselves that to do the same with other species is a heinous act.
I think it's probably the best example of all of how we can be so easily conditioned to accept things regardless of whether there's any logic to it or not.

Bob wrote:My only point is the inconsistency and hypocrisy of this whole thing.
We have no objection to slaughtering a cow and eating it. But we have convinced ourselves that to do the same with other species is a heinous act.
I think it's probably the best example of all of how we can be so easily conditioned to accept things regardless of whether there's any logic to it or not.

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Bob wrote:My only point is the inconsistency and hypocrisy of this whole thing.
We have no objection to slaughtering a cow and eating it. But we have convinced ourselves that to do the same with other species is a heinous act.
I think it's probably the best example of all of how we can be so easily conditioned to accept things regardless of whether there's any logic to it or not.

The is well stated Bob. What may be perceived as a heinous act by some, it is status quo to others. Cows are not eaten in India, but beef is the most popular meat in in the Western World.

Henery Hawk wrote:

Bob wrote:

Henery Hawk wrote:

That's a stoopid argument from the get go.

Why not raise dogs for food...? Or rats...?

Well if it's a stoopid argument to maintain that cows and pigs have the same right to live as dogs and rats do, then you would be correct.

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Ever wonder why we don't use cat or dog shit as fertilizer....? How about human...? Sure would eliminate a few billion gallons of sewage collected and placed in a treatment plant on a daily basis.

Hell, why not sink a well next to your outhouse or your septic tank....?


Never mind Bob. You want to be an obtuse contrarian for the sake of doing so, have at it.

Henery Hawk wrote:

Bob wrote:My only point is the inconsistency and hypocrisy of this whole thing.
We have no objection to slaughtering a cow and eating it. But we have convinced ourselves that to do the same with other species is a heinous act.
I think it's probably the best example of all of how we can be so easily conditioned to accept things regardless of whether there's any logic to it or not.

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We have national healthcare that gives hardons in a box to 85 yo men, but it's against the law to smoke a weed that grows in the dirt...?

An 85 yo with an erection is normal....?

Objectivity indexed to what is normal has long since been turned on it's head, and logic was an early victim in that battle.

Yella wrote:

Henery Hawk wrote:

Bob wrote:

Henery Hawk wrote:

That's a stoopid argument from the get go.

Why not raise dogs for food...? Or rats...?

Well if it's a stoopid argument to maintain that cows and pigs have the same right to live as dogs and rats do, then you would be correct.

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Ever wonder why we don't use cat or dog shit as fertilizer....? How about human...? Sure would eliminate a few billion gallons of sewage collected and placed in a treatment plant on a daily basis.

Hell, why not sink a well next to your outhouse or your septic tank....?


Never mind Bob. You want to be an obtuse contrarian for the sake of doing so, have at it.

Wow, Bob, you, an obtuse contrarian? How out of sight. Bask in it,Dude.