Animals..friend or food? Perhaps both!
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Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2012!!!
well to make it short, eating animals other people considers or have as pets might get them offended, it's just a normative thing, making it a law would be stupid for some, but like i said the other far end of the opinion is no good as well
the more people in China have cats and dogs for pets, the less will find their meats tasty, perhaps...
well to make it short, eating animals other people considers or have as pets might get them offended, it's just a normative thing, making it a law would be stupid for some, but like i said the other far end of the opinion is no good as well
the more people in China have cats and dogs for pets, the less will find their meats tasty, perhaps...
CottageLV
Banned Idiot
Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2012!!!
people in the american sub-urbs don't eat the chickens and the pigs they raise? technically, they're both pets and food source.
well to make it short, eating animals other people considers or have as pets might get them offended, it's just a normative thing, making it a law would be stupid for some, but like i said the other far end of the opinion is no good as well
the more people in China have cats and dogs for pets, the less will find their meats tasty, perhaps...
people in the american sub-urbs don't eat the chickens and the pigs they raise? technically, they're both pets and food source.
Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2012!!!
is that supposed to be rhetorical?
yes and no
is that supposed to be rhetorical?
yes and no
vesicles
Colonel
Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2012!!!
Agreed! We human evolved to what we are today because we eat meat. Our eyes are placed in front of our faces, instead of one the sides like horses. This is a key characteristic of a meat-eater. Since we have to catch other animals that tend to want to escape from us, being able to judge distance and direction is key to catch the animals. Thus all predators have their eyes in front of their faces so that the eye sights from the two eyes cross. In order to catch big games, our ancestors had to emphasize organization and communication, which allows those with bigger brain to survive and thrive. So eating meat is important to human evolution and why we are who we are today.
About being attached to animals, I still remember one incident that happened to me almost 10 years ago. I was a graduate student at the time and was using mice for my experiments. Typically, I would use anesthetics to put them to sleep before experiments. Normally, I would dilute the anesthetics 1:1000 and then mix them to get the final solution. One day, I injected the final anesthetics solution into 4 mice and they went ballistic. They started jumping up and down and scream like crazy. And they died after about 5 minutes. I then realized that I forgot to dilute the anesthetics and simply took the original highly concentrated anesthetics solution. I felt sick and my legs were numb that entire afternoon. I was using mice all the time and never realized I was that attached to these little mice.
A couple years later, I was doing research on hearing and had to use outer hair cells extracted from guinea pig's ears. In order to extract these cells, I had to first chop off the head of the guinea pig and split the head open from the back and extract the cochlea. The first time I did this procedure, I saw the guinea pig's mouth still moving and eyes still blinking when I picked up its head after the head was chopped off. I was having nightmares of this for days...
Agreed! We human evolved to what we are today because we eat meat. Our eyes are placed in front of our faces, instead of one the sides like horses. This is a key characteristic of a meat-eater. Since we have to catch other animals that tend to want to escape from us, being able to judge distance and direction is key to catch the animals. Thus all predators have their eyes in front of their faces so that the eye sights from the two eyes cross. In order to catch big games, our ancestors had to emphasize organization and communication, which allows those with bigger brain to survive and thrive. So eating meat is important to human evolution and why we are who we are today.
About being attached to animals, I still remember one incident that happened to me almost 10 years ago. I was a graduate student at the time and was using mice for my experiments. Typically, I would use anesthetics to put them to sleep before experiments. Normally, I would dilute the anesthetics 1:1000 and then mix them to get the final solution. One day, I injected the final anesthetics solution into 4 mice and they went ballistic. They started jumping up and down and scream like crazy. And they died after about 5 minutes. I then realized that I forgot to dilute the anesthetics and simply took the original highly concentrated anesthetics solution. I felt sick and my legs were numb that entire afternoon. I was using mice all the time and never realized I was that attached to these little mice.
A couple years later, I was doing research on hearing and had to use outer hair cells extracted from guinea pig's ears. In order to extract these cells, I had to first chop off the head of the guinea pig and split the head open from the back and extract the cochlea. The first time I did this procedure, I saw the guinea pig's mouth still moving and eyes still blinking when I picked up its head after the head was chopped off. I was having nightmares of this for days...
vesicles
Colonel
Thanks! As a matter of fact, I felt a little sick even when I was writing the previous post... I use animals for research because I have no other choice. It's either curing diseases and helping people, or these poor animals...
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2012!!!
Ummmh By thesame token , theres a fair amount meat eating wildlife that dont. . Look at birds. Reptiles,/Snakes Sharks that feed on Vegetation/plankton and Predator Sharks, their eyes are on the side.
Horses and Cows are grazers feeding a few inches off the ground , with their head bent downwards, they would not be able to see if they were being stalked, thats also why their eyes are on the side.
Asians also get condemned for eating sharkfin, not because of the rarity of sharks, but the wasteful manner that its obtained.
Ummmh By thesame token , theres a fair amount meat eating wildlife that dont. . Look at birds. Reptiles,/Snakes Sharks that feed on Vegetation/plankton and Predator Sharks, their eyes are on the side.
Horses and Cows are grazers feeding a few inches off the ground , with their head bent downwards, they would not be able to see if they were being stalked, thats also why their eyes are on the side.
Asians also get condemned for eating sharkfin, not because of the rarity of sharks, but the wasteful manner that its obtained.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
You mean the foreign fisherman and how they obtain it so they can make money. The Chinese don't waste which is also the subject of ridicule for eating the parts of animals the critics don't eat. Which is also why the tiny population of the West eats more meat in their diet thus kills more animals for food than the rest of the world combined.
If the Chinese adopted the critics' eating habits, would China be then blamed for the greenhouse gases that are expelled from steer and have been a significant contributor to global warming?
If the Chinese adopted the critics' eating habits, would China be then blamed for the greenhouse gases that are expelled from steer and have been a significant contributor to global warming?
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
A little off topic , but IMO that kindness is misplaced. Over hear one can be jailed for not putting an animal out of its misery because of some injury or cancer and yet one can face imprisonment for practising euphanasia.
On another note has anyone watched a program called animalpharm where animals are genetically modified for human needs, either for consumption or medical reasons? There was one program where they had cows which carried human DNA so they could be farmed for their blood.