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Originally Posted by Mortis
This all brings up the question, why are some animals ok to eat and others not?
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(fake answer ahead)
Because the animals we eat are inherently evil and thus deserve to be eaten! The rest is innocent and pure so it's a sin to eat them!!1111
j/k of course. But I have often wondered what pigs and cows did to us that we consider them to be fair game, while dogs and cats (for example) are untouchable and countries eating them are evil.
(Personally, I think I'd eat everything. Unless you can prove that it's sentient on a level comparable to a human.)
I suppose the animals we (whoever "we" are) eat are those that were easiest to breed at first, while the rest either wasn't so easy to breed in numbers, or was more useful otherwise.
After a while it becomes tradition/custom to eat just these animals.
Some animals aren't always safe to eat either (pigs for example - easier spoilage and parasites).