Odd points about food

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  • youngcaseyr
    youngcaseyr Posts: 293 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    I think just the act of eating and the social/cultural norms around it are odd when you really stop to consider it. We put dead things, which were originally either animals or plants, in our mouths. We often *enjoy* doing that and even have elaborate, celebratory social rituals surrounding it. Our bodies then break those things down to extract the nutrients that we can use, and we excrete the unusable parts in a process that most cultures find somewhat to highly taboo.

    Also, if you frame the act of eating (and many things pertaining to the human body and organic life in general) a certain way, it's all a bit magical... "Do you mean to tell me that if I eat this [food] I can absorb its energy and gain strength from it??" Or, conversely "If I feed this [non-food or other known allergen] to this person, I can drain their energy and make them ill or even die??"

    Magic, friends.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    I have nothing to add but I am enjoying following this thread - its food for thought :smiley:
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Eternally_Hers wrote: »
    foxtrot1965 wrote: »
    I think it's odd that we eat meat at all. We think we are so smart that we condemn other cultures for eating animals like dogs. As if their lives are more important than a cow, which is revered in other cultures? Obvious points, but points nonetheless.
    Btw...I eat meat (or should I say, "animals")

    I think it's to do with the emotional connection we get with having animals as pets. I have had a rabbit, chinchilla, dogs and cats. I couldn't ever imagine those types of animals being eaten without being sick to my stomach. I haven't had any emotional connections with cows or chickens so it makes it easier for me to eat.

    I also volunteer at a humane society just outside of my city so I have a lot of emotional connections with different cats and dogs.

    I saw a video on youtube last night where people were playing ball with a cow and thought to myself, "How do you eat an animal you played ball with?" My OH thought perhaps it was a milk cow.
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