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Be warned that when people say witchetty grubs taste like chicken they are completely and entirely lying. I've only heard good things about chocolate dipped ants, though.

So is something being endangered or of your own species the only barriers for you? You should know that this is causing an internal CLASH for me since I kind of associate your eating habits with rich fat men with guns, especially if they're called Buck.
And offal. I don't do offal (never mind the tripe my Japanese host family gave me, all smiling, and I forced down my throat).
 

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And offal. I don't do offal (never mind the tripe my Japanese host family gave me, all smiling, and I forced down my throat).
Tripe is disgusting.

Would you eat a living animal you had raised yourself? Would you eat a chimp (if they weren't endangered)?

Kwayera: current curio of the hour.
 

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Tripe is disgusting.

Would you eat a living animal you had raised yourself? Would you eat a chimp (if they weren't endangered)?

Kwayera: current curio of the hour.
Living animal I'd raised myself: well, I guess I have to add some more provisos to my list - I don't eat mammalian predators either (disease risk), so that rules out my cat and dog. But livestock? Sure, if I raise it knowing that it was being raised to be food (and thus denying myself the chance to form emotional attachments).

Chimp: no. Disease risk. Eating bushmeat like chimps and other primates/monkeys is how SIV became HIV.
 

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Living animal I'd raised myself: well, I guess I have to add some more provisos to my list - I don't eat mammalian predators either (disease risk), so that rules out my cat and dog. But livestock? Sure, if I raise it knowing that it was being raised to be food (and thus denying myself the chance to form emotional attachments).

Chimp: no. Disease risk. Eating bushmeat like chimps and other primates/monkeys is how SIV became HIV.
If it was that or nothing I'd still do it.
 

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Living animal I'd raised myself: well, I guess I have to add some more provisos to my list - I don't eat mammalian predators either (disease risk), so that rules out my cat and dog. But livestock? Sure, if I raise it knowing that it was being raised to be food (and thus denying myself the chance to form emotional attachments).

Chimp: no. Disease risk. Eating bushmeat like chimps and other primates/monkeys is how SIV became HIV.
So your standard budgerigar/canary/cockatiel/lovebird would be full steam ahead then?
 

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So your standard budgerigar/canary/cockatiel/lovebird would be full steam ahead then?
If it wasn't endangered and I hadn't really formed an emotional attachment to it as a pet, and it'd been raised for food? Sure. Why not. Much the same as quail, I'd assume.
 

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If it wasn't endangered and I hadn't really formed an emotional attachment to it as a pet, and it'd been raised for food? Sure. Why not. Much the same as quail, I'd assume.
I'm installing an alarm system for my bird cages now. :(

I have problems forming any substantial logical disagreement with that position but I must admit that I find it shocking and a tad frightening. Has any of this ever freaked you out just a little bit?
 

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during masterchef today (i mean yesterday) my uncle told me that when i was young he used to cook lamb brain for my grandfather and i'd eat it too.

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during masterchef today (i mean yesterday) my uncle told me that when i was young he used to cook lamb brain for my grandfather and i'd eat it too.

:S
You were as naive as George and his siblings.
 

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I'm installing an alarm system for my bird cages now. :(

I have problems forming any substantial logical disagreement with that position but I must admit that I find it shocking and a tad frightening. Has any of this ever freaked you out just a little bit?
Your birds have been raised as pets. I wouldn't eat a pet, as I have stated. People raise chickens as pets; I wouldn't eat them. A chook raised for food? No problem. No emotional attachments involved.
 

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Your birds have been raised as pets. I wouldn't eat a pet, as I have stated. People raise chickens as pets; I wouldn't eat them. A chook raised for food? No problem. No emotional attachments involved.
All bets are off in a survival situation. Would eat pets if I had to.
 

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Your birds have been raised as pets. I wouldn't eat a pet, as I have stated. People raise chickens as pets; I wouldn't eat them. A chook raised for food? No problem. No emotional attachments involved.
I see.

I've never encountered a person quite like you. 'Sif not go for fetus dumpling though.

/disappointed.
 

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All bets are off in a survival situation. Would eat pets if I had to.
I do believe I also recall saying that all bets are off in a survival situation. I'd even eat offal, as that's where most of the nutrients are.
 

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I see.

I've never encountered a person quite like you. 'Sif not go for fetus dumpling though.

/disappointed.
Theres not many foods i wouldnt try, as long as its an actual dish, and people somewhere eat it. Cannibalism or primates[too close for comfort] i wouldnt unless i had to for survival, but if i was travelling, i would still give gross stuff a try like balut and even something really disgusting like lutefisk because hey, how often does an opportunity like that come along in your life.

So fetus dumpling is out[and btw it makes me think if this old school picture that was on rotten.com years ago, some guy cut up a dead baby and kind of boiled it as a soup type thing...yeah i wouldnt try that]
 

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