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No worries Vinnie. Shyte happens eh? 
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Just on Vinnies absolute point though, ā¦ it all comes down to how we are socialised, what we learn as āNormsā, and the Nature Vs Nurture argument essentially.
That bald yank bloke Adam something did a series on Bizarre foods, and travelled to many different cultures and ate some stuff that here in the west, would simply make our gutz churn & think How tf are they eating that???
To them, it is normal and delicious, and they would possibly have the same feeling about a Big Mac or Mars Bar etc.
Itās the meow that makes it really work, ā¦lol.
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Fried tarantula legs are fine. The abdomen was a bit mealy though.
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Fair point.
Thats not how you spell cat its;
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Iāve eaten plenty of interesting food. I draw the line at 18 day old balut. Not for philosophical reasons though.
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Not enough Bats in this thread
I will if you will. 
Thatās a deal Vinnie
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Deal
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I remember the giraffe v ant discussion.
I still say its not just about size.
And for what its worth, I would swerve away from the lizard and run over the cat in the blink of an eye.
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The reptile is on the road to soak up the heat.
The cat is just being annoying for no good reason.
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Guinea Pig looks nice.
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Fixed
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Please do not watch this if your offended by the use of foul language.
Iām talking the big C,etc.
I doubt it will stay long,but worth a shot 
Any discussion on Whales reminds me of this.
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We donāt have to resort to using aliens to illustrate the point being made. We have enough obvious human examples from history to point out how people would feel.
Slavery in all itās forms ignores the feelings of slaves in order to exploit them for the economic power gain of the slave holder, this holds true from the Romans to the Confederates, and all stops in between. Put another way, it is reducing people to no more than functioning pieces of meat.
There is also another example that fits in here in place of the aliens. The Nazis in Germany treated the Jews of Europe as worse than pieces of meat. Hitler saw them as vermin to be exteminated. He wanted to annihilate every last one, reducing them to less than the ants used in the above metaphor.
Would anyone of us deny that slaves or Jews have feelings, the same as us? Hitler and the Nazis would have.
Q: Why did the lizard cross the road?
A: To get to the kitten on the other side.
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My answer to the original question would be, if I can kill it and eat it, itās fair game.(If needed for survival) I have killed a chook to eat taught from my grandmother, have been the same with sheep and bovine.
I would not kill a domesticated animal if I had the choice over an animal that was not domesticated and bred for food, yes I would rather eat a lizard than a cat.
Small fry fish in the big ocean, yes done plenty of times, a whale or anything huge and having a longevity no.
Think itās about a few reasons and mainly supply and food breeding.
Yeah, or it might 'splode.
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