That's right... It's time for the Inflammatory Poll of the Week! (or, as Lestheron calls it, the "Are you smart enough to agree with Honor?" test... )
Isn't it a little remarkable that, after all this time, the vast majority of the human diet can be reduced to, essentially, three plants, four animals, foods derived from those seven items, and a small enough percentage of other things as to be more or less proper to define them as garnish and seasonings?
This is particularly true of North America and Europe.
Here in North America, we mostly don't like to eat anything that's cute, or particularly "gross", but other places have more broad palettes.
In India and parts of Africa, monkey - fellow primates - are something of a delicacy. In Korea, they'll happily eat a dog. The French will eat a horse. Cats, rats, lizards, bugs, and even people are or have been on the menu, in various times and places.
There was a time, of course, when there was no debate over which animals it was appropriate to eat. The answer was "The ones you can catch and kill, or find dead."
And, really, isn't that more "natural"? I've recently been reminded of an African saying...
So... What should we eat? What -shouldn't- we eat? And why?When the sun comes up, a gazelle will awaken. He knows he has to outrun the fastest lion, or he'll be killed and eaten. Also, a lion will awaken. She knows he has to outrun the slowest gazelle, or she'll starve and die. So, it doesn't really matter whether you're a gazelle or a lion... When the sun comes up, you'd better start running.
The poll categories are intended to elevate from "almost nothing" to "almost everything", and I realize some folk will consider some things "higher" on the list to belong "lower" on the list... say, bugs before dogs, for instance... All I can do is apologize in advance. I had to choose -some- order.
Think we can get through this one without it devolving to religion and spirituality? I actually thought I was safe until I remembered Leviticus.
