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Actually, it's worse than that... a chicken egg is the unfertilized egg cell, plus the lining and tissue that would have become the placenta if the egg cell had been fertilized... I'm not going to say what that's called in human women.Quote:
Also, when we eat eggs (this may sound disgusting) we're actually eating chicken placenta. There are actually some countries that consider human placenta to be a delicacy. *shudders at that thought*
And it can't be worse than kim'chi.
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Kimchi is a generic name for a multitude of seasonal and regional varieties of pickled or fermented vegetable side dishes flavored with seafood and spices, and high in vitamins, minerals, and lactic acid.
And the Korean variety, at least, consists of fiery, fetid inedibles that will with even the merest taste make your breath capable of knocking the steam out of a packmule's fart at 90 yards.
This condition cannot be changed for at least two weeks short of brushing your teeth with bleach.
Killer whales will fling young seals about with their tails, apparently for fun, before they eat them.Quote:
Animals that do eat meat kill for survival: whether that's protection or for food.
While they're still alive.
On the other hand, I do not condone unneccesary violence or suffering towards animals. For example, I buy free-range over battery chicken, where possible. However, humans are omnivores. We do not have the proper digestive system to live efficiently off of vegetables (our appendix is vestigal, for a start, and we can't digest cellulose). The animals we eat are not self-aware, and if we didn't eat them, they wouldn't exist in the first place. Call it a symbiosis, if you like. We feed the animals, allow them to breed, protect them from predators and illness, and then we consume them. From a species point of view its a win-win. However, because these species are almost entirely dependant on us, whereas we are no longer entirely depenant on then, you could see it as a favour to the animals that we still raise them for food. Otherwise, evolutionarliy, they'd be toast.
Whew, that was longer than it needed to be...
You could never be more right.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Redneck