Lions?
Yeah lions with their manes and roars and chocolate bars are worth a story.
Can’t be eating lions.
Dogs?
They have names like ‘Debbie’ and favourite chairs to sit in and favourite games to play.
Can’t be eating dogs.
Dog likes rubber balls walks in the country and not being killed
Horses?
They runs fast and Victorian children groom them in books.
A lot of Europe has broken down into a mental about eating horses.
Chickens? Cows? Pigs?
Sod ‘em.
Speciesism has been overtly ludicrous in 2013. Even people sealed inside a diving bell being played a wall of Tina Turner white noise could not have escaped it. Blink fast and a mashed up horse turns up somewhere in a low rent beef product or pig DNA features in an halal meal.
The omnipresent horse meat saga has not so far been covered at meatismurder. There’s no need. It’s everywhere. A National Geographic story (link) about a US State trying to ban the sale of lion-meat finally provoked comment.
Why is one animal for eating and the other not?
From being children we are taught to see different animals in different ways. Animals that are pets have personalities and can’t be eaten. Some animals are exotic and strange and eating them isn’t on the agenda. A few animals are lucky. They get to be cut up and put into plastic trays and this is OK because it is what has always happened.
What if the plastic tray animals were suddenly reclassified as family pets? They would become individuals with a personality just like a dogcat. People would meet the pig that lives next door and see the person. See that they experience contentment and pain and fear. The plastic tray animals have a right to an autonomous life just as any human or cat or dog.
If you wouldn’t eat a horse burger, kitten sandwich or dog pasty perhaps it is time to question why you are OK with eating a cow or a pig.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130312-lions-meat-illinois-animals-science-nation/
