[Sca-cooks] Re: Cooking Cats

[Stephanie Ross]

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Isabella di Giovanni wrote:

>Actually, the Chinese believe that the adrenaline released during
>the animals terror makes the meat sweeter and better. I particularly
>have something to say about people who feel this way and do it to
>animals just to eat them...but I will be nice on this list.
>I agree with you. I won't try it.

That is the main reason why I became a vegetarian. I couldn't handle the concept of eating an animal's suffering. The days of looking into an animal's eyes as you slit its throat are long, long gone. Modern slaughtering techniques, no matter how humane they claim to be, cause adrenaline to be released into the meat. Perhaps this is why meat eaters, on average, tend to be more aggressive than vegetarians? Modern veal raising is a crime against the life force, IMO, and the treatment of battery hens for egg production is purely disgusting (although I am ashamed to admit that I do eat grocery store eggs, because i can't afford the free-range ones). I might actually try a piece of meat from an animal that Phlip has slaughtered though, because I have faith that she'd do it with minimal suffering involved to the animal. BTW, I have heard that in Vietnam, they terrorize and beat dogs so that the hormones can tenderize the meat before slaughter. What a sick planet, that we are forced to survive by eating the suffering of lower species. I'm sure I will get flamed hard for this post, but my mundanely pagan heart won't back down from this opinion.

Aislinn


"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil.  For what is Evil but Good -  tortured by its own hunger and thirst?  When Good is hungry, it seeks food , even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters." - Kahlil Gibran
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