Posted on 05/23/2003 9:17:52 AM PDT by ppaul
I suppose that means I have to give up my fovorite coffee, Kopi Luwak??
The civet eats the fruit from the coffee tree, "processes" the fruit internally, and shi...."spits" out the coffee beans in neat little piles. The beans are collected and you have the makings for the most expensive cup of coffee in the world!
You do have to develop a taste for it, but MMMMmmmmm!
Maybe it DID happen 1000 years ago, but with diagnostics being prrimitive, they maybe said it was caused by looking at trees while crosseyed.
Somewhere I read that it is a "cuisine that evolved from hunger". I wish I had the exact words, and who quoted it.
"Okay, I have to say it, do you really drink that crap"?
What??? Do you think I'm that crazy?? That stuff is EXPENSIVE!!
A while back this sh...stuff cost over a hundred bucks an ounce. I saw recently that the price dropped to the fifty to sixty dollar range. Don't have any idea what the price is now.
I have never tried it, but my brother has. Someone in his office dared him. (He works in silicon valley) I asked him after he drank it, what his opinion was regarding the taste. You guessed it! "That stuff tastes like sh..." (well I'm sure you guessed it anyway!)
I'm assuming that you are not chinese. Cruel and barbaric are strong words to apply to an entire people. They did have a great civilization that certainly lasted far longer than any western civilization. As to their eating habits, its their business not ours.
I'm assuming you are Chinese. Yes, those are strong words, and perhaps I shouldn't apply them to all Chinese folks. But, to put, my views in context, I also find Western methods of slaughtering animals inhumane and vicious, though no where near on the levels of the Sinos.
Their eating habits aren't my concern, though of course, eating companion animals who have a loving symbiotic relationship with mankind going back thousands of years is completely disgusting. I'm talking about slaughtering cats by dipping them in boiling oil, skinning dogs alive and other such niceties of what you worshipfully call "Chinese civilization". By any objective standard, that is barbaric, cruel and completely uncivilized.
LOL........
By whose standards,yours? What about our relationship with sheep or cattle or pigs, it extends back thousands of years as well, but we routinely slaughter these animals for food. I've eaten rabbit, snake, pigeons and dogs and the dishes are quite delectable.
I'm talking about slaughtering cats by dipping them in boiling oil, skinning dogs alive and other such niceties of what you worshipfully call "Chinese civilization". By any objective standard, that is barbaric, cruel and completely uncivilized.
You have no clue why they do this. This is because an animal has to be in state of great excitement before it dies. That way its body will be awash with adrenaline, it makes the meat extremely tender and delicious. While it would be painful for the dogs and cats, I agree, but it makes for a superb meal. There is nothing barbaric about enhancing the flavor of food.
By human standards, that's whose my Chinese friend. Maybe China will someday catch up to them. And human sacrifice also extends back thousands of years, that doesn't make it acceptable. Even when it comes to killing cattle or pigs, cruelty is unjustifiable.
You have no clue why they do this. This is because an animal has to be in state of great excitement before it dies. That way its body will be awash with adrenaline, it makes the meat extremely tender and delicious. While it would be painful for the dogs and cats, I agree, but it makes for a superb meal. There is nothing barbaric about enhancing the flavor of food.
Ok, excuse me while I puke. You think the above "justification" carries any worth? First of all the adrenaline reasoning is simple superstition, and secondly it carries no moral weight. Cruelty is ok so your food can taste good? What level of moral development are you on? If this is an example of "Chinese culture" you can have it. Once again confirms the superiority of Western culture...and I'm not even a Westerner!
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