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"Is it OK to eat dogs, horses, dolphins, monkeys, or humans?"

Well you did put "human cuts" in Unreal World, so...

But on a less flippant note, I will say that as a Korean I am sick of when foreigners call us dirty brutes for eating dogs.. a practice that is getting rarer and rarer. The Aztecs, having little other use for dogs, kept them primarily as livestock. Also, if "dog is man's best friend" then what about, for example, a child's treasured cow that was a 4H project? Is it any less cruel to eat that?

There's an old trope in Korea (don't know how true it was in reality) that if a family has a promising child who does well in school, they give that child a calf. The child is responsible for making sure the cow grows up well, and once the cow is grown up, it is sold to make money for the child's university education. Much is made of the tearful separation from the cow, and it's an example that proves to me how value is relative, and is what we make of it.

It's a special form of arrogance, I think, to believe that we are above doing violent acts to eat like any other living thing. I am not for or against religion, but maybe "original sin" is a way of looking at the fact that one has to commit violence just to stay alive.

The "wolf and the sheep" living peacefully together, that part made me laugh. If the bible is to be believed, God created the wolf and the sheep from the outset, in Eden before there was ever any such thing as killing. Maybe that means God intended the world to be violent from the start, and Eden was just a joke he played on humankind.

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