Meat-Eater or Veggi?

 

But in typically cognitively dissonant fashion I continue to eat meat all the time.

 

I can't help it, NZ bacon is just too good.

Perhaps. Though, it isn't likely I would start eating brains for breakfast every morning, even if I ended up enjoying the taste. Seems more like a rare occasion to me. 

I have yet to do this, but I certainly wouldn't be opposed. In fact, I hear the eyes and brain of certain animals are some of the tastiest parts. Fish eyes are common to eat in Japan, and so forth. It wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm not so ignorant that I assume it's somehow less gross to eat any other part of an animal. 

As odd as this could read, there are humane ways of slaughtering animals.  And I of course think putting them through torture is absolutely wrong. I just disagree with the argument that some people make that animals should have the same rights and responsibilities as humans. Could you imagine being a witness in animal court, then going to visit your murderous pet in animal prison?  

 

 

damn that's philosophising.

 

 

As Logan said - fish and seafood no problem, mammals are something else, mainly because a cow's head is more than I can eat in one sitting - sucking pig wasn't a problem when I had that, not that I ate any of the head - I don't eat that much offal anyway so brain, eyes and cheeks don't appear on my plate at all. I've prepared most foul from fully feathered, headed and footed creature into something oven-ready so that's not an issue, again, I see no point in eating any of the discarded bits when there is a whole carcass of white meat to munch on. While I am aware that all animals have heads, and tails and feet and livers and kidneys, I don't have a problem with knowing they do, or not eating those bits. Cabbages have roots - not going to eat a cabbage root any time soon, but having one on my plate isn't going to put me off.

 

However since it was a philosophical question I would counter it by asking would you eat the whole plant? You can chow down on a plate of spuds but would you eat the stalks, leaves and flowers of the potato plant (well, no - they are toxic) (would you eat a raw potato) - you'll grind down the seeds from grasses and bake them into bread or make pasta, but would you eat straw or hay (well, no - you intestine isn't equipped to digest them) - you'd eat an apple but would you eat a apple tree (well, no - you cannot break down cellulose fibres). I've eaten rose petals but I've never been hungry enough to munch my way through the rose bushes in the garden.

 

99% of the plant kingdom is inedible, most of it will kill you.