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Are you a member of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) or a member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)?
One of the latest advertising campaigns from PETA, "Fishing Hurts", gives a variety of reasons why humans shouldn't eat fish. In my opinion, it's a cover for their real agenda, pushing various forms of vegetarianism.
Let's examine one of the words from the title of their organization, ethical, and how it applies to the treatment of animals. According to one dictionary source, ethical means "pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct." This tells me that we're talking about the treatment of animals in a way that is not wrong in conduct. Torturing animals, starving them, not giving them shelter when needed, and things like that would be examples of wrongful conduct. I don't see anything in that definition as far as eating animals goes.
As a God-fearing person (regardless of the fact that I'm not religious), I believe that animals were put here to serve mankind, not the other way around. I will eat their flesh and I will use their skins as necessary.
I tend to look at things realistically and not through rose-colored glasses. If I listened to every extremist about what I should or shouldn't eat, I would be relegated to eating mangoes, bananas, and Bermuda grass. I mean, a portion of the animals are considered unclean according to the Old Testament, another portion are considered unhealthy by doctors, another portion are protected as endangered species, and now PETA wants me to ignore the rest?
I'm sorry, but I belong to the second PETA:
- Beef, it's what's for dinner.
- Pork, the other white meat.
- I don't want tuna with good taste. I want tuna that tastes good.
- The incredible, edible egg.
- Baby, the other, other white meat. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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Heh, I tried some Indian food when I was stationed in Hawaii because this Vietnamese girl insisted on it. Spicy is a mild term. Now this was 23+ years ago, but I think I had beef curry. It was very oily and spicy. My rear end paid for it for days.
Here in the Philippines, the primary diet consists of fish, rice, and various vegetables and a lot of fruit. Pork is very prevalent because it's the cheapest meat (besides fish). Goat is eaten on occasion, but not often. Beef is rarely eaten unless bought from McDonalds.
It's a westernized culture in southeast Asia, but only because of the long interaction (over 100 years) with the United States. Still, I long for some of the food from the U.S. that I just can't get here, especially Mexican food.