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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

can we all start eating dog again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to. I'm not sure why you would. It doesn't taste that good, as most dog breeds were bred for work and not flavor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but it's just not legal. how are you able to survive while laws and social norms stop you eating absolutely anything?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

but it’s just not legal

You're right that it's not. I'm not sure how I feel on food bans, personally. Probably very negative.

how are you able to survive while laws and social norms stop you eating absolutely anything?

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Social norms don't stop anything except someone's consented will. My wife won't eat rabbit, but it has nothing to do with being forced against it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Horse sausage is the way to go then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've never tried horse meat. I've heard bad things about it being incredibly muscly and gamey, as well as expensive. Are there any upsides for me to consider it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was half joking, but I had some by accident in France and it was very good as sausage. I've never had it in any other format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting! I recently had gator jerky I enjoyed. I'm not one of those "off-put" by what animal meat comes from. But I often want to know why I should try it. As you can see in my other replies, I'm a foodie and I like to truly understand what goes into the food I consume both literally and figuratively. To the extent I learned how to distill my own whiskey when I learned it was legal/decriminalized where I live.