On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:56:26 -0000, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/22/2017 6:36 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:


Would you eat a human?
Would you eat a dog?
Would you eat a horse?
Would you eat a cow?

Where do you draw the line and why?


If I'd starve otherwise, yes to all four. I've done the last two.

Horse is not so bad and used to be eaten in the past, but became taboo.
Still available in Canada and Europe. Beef-- it just tastes good.

My point exactly. Horse is taboo. Why? Why say horse is wrong but cow is ok?

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