Would you eat a sentient animal?

Thats interesting! I don't know if I could eat an animal with personality and if each animal on the menu is cartoonized, I think I'd have to go vegetarian again.

As it is I can't eat anything that still looks like it did when alive (most seafood, etc). If pork, beef, turkey, chicken, etc. looked like the little animal I probably would have to go vegetarian. I think I was traumatized as a child. My hometown was on the Mississippi River and they brought me fish with the head/eyeball everything included. About the only fish I can eat is fish sticks or stuff from places like Long John Silvers. Sounds stupid, I know. But that's me. lol

I watched that same show Emma. I don't know who was crazier the diner or the dinee. I think I kept a light on that night.

i think the show was called 'Rake'? its an australian show...Good old creepy hugo weaving!:devil:

Here in Korea, just about every restaurant has a picture of a cartoon animal representing the type of meat the restaurant specializes in. Often times, the animal appears sentient in some way: wears clothes, walks in a bipedal manner, etc. Many of them seem to be aware of their tastiness. I have seen pigs bent over with their hineys in the air, biting their lip as if to say, "look at that. Wouldn't you enjoy me with hoisin sauce?" I've seen cherubic cows, eyeing their brethren, a gleam in their eyes, licking their lips in anticipation.

If animals were bred to be sentient AND had a desire to be eaten by humans (seriously, like a life-long dream), would you continue eating meat?
If you already don't eat meat, would this encourage you to try it or would you disagree more?

Again, I am only curious about whether you would eat sentient animals, let's not talk about the merits of eating animals as they are now.

That is interesting. Korea, since the 1950s, or when the American diet came over was primarily a vegetarian society (they used meat as condiments if they could afford the meat or fish).

I recently switched to a plant based, whole foods diet (I do fail once in a while) but I am trying. I switched for health reasons but I recently learned about the Paleo diet that says evolutionary dietary life is great, so I don't hate meat so much if you can kill the animal, but I know I cannot so I my thoughts on vegan is still intact. I know however, that when I visit my family over holidays, there will be some form of meat.

So no, I will not eat a sentient animal (cartoon or otherwise). I do however, am not a purist (I think you got that), but I am trying. I won't buy leather but I won't throw away my leather shoes or belt. I will no longer support meat plants that slaughter their animals in a cruel fashion.

For those that do eat meat, they should watch this movie (unless they kill their own meat). http://www.documentarywire.com/earthlings

But then again, Americans just adore a rat--Mickey Mouse so who knows, right?

I sing songs to the cows as we pass them on the highway about how yummy they are. So I don't think that a cartoon is going to change that - Chik Fil A uses those cows to try to convince us to eat their chicken.

I'll take my chicken with a side of cow please.

I already think that animals have personalities and all that good stuff. They taste good, they are food. So I wouldn't be deterred.

But then again, Americans just adore a rat--Mickey Mouse so who knows, right?

How dare you call Mickey a rat?

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Yeah! Mickey is a MOUSE, not a rat.

Edit: I'm blonde so I had to put the clairfication. And it's almost 1am.

I watched that same show Emma. I don't know who was crazier the diner or the dinee. I think I kept a light on that night.

I think I'll do that tonight!! :noway: Keep a light on that is..:laugh:

But then again, Americans just adore a rat--Mickey Mouse so who knows, right?

How dare you call Mickey a rat?

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I have to force myself not to think about it. I'm a total meat eater, but I'm also an animal lover. I have to separate the two in my own mind. Meat that comes in a package from the store is much easier to eat because I can force myself to believe that it's JUST meat - it didn't have friends or a family. lol I can't bring myself to eat meat that appears as it did in nature - whole fish, for example.

It poses quite an issue for me when I walk into a BBQ restaurant craving a steak, and they seat us right under a giant, stuffed cow head. ?!?! I don't want those crazy eyes watchin' me while I dig in to what could have been his cousin!

It's hard enough eating M&Ms without thinking of their silly faces on the commercials! ;o)

There was a Chinese restaurant by my old place and it's logo was a wok with animals sticking out with big smiles. I dont remember what the restaurant is called but me and the hubs called it Happy Burning Animals. We still ate there. :P

Yup. I'd cook 'em and eat 'em. No regrets, pass the BBQ sauce

Yup, we he says ^

argh, double post sorry >.>

I typically only buy and cook meat that no longer resembles the animal it once was, like boneless skinless chicken breasts, but that's mostly because it seems wasteful to buy the bones and skin and dark meat when I won't be using it.

I thought it would bother me to eat from a whole pig at a luau, but it didn't. I did, however, fashion a blindfold out of a napkin to cover the piggie's eyes because it did bother some of the other party guests. "I can't eat him! He's LOOKING at me!"

Circle of life. Cats feel no guilt over eating mice or birds. Dog have no qualms about rabbits they might catch. Dogs also have no qualms about rolling in dead fish, though, so they might not be the best example on how to live a good life.