Letters to the Editor
-
xenophobic and ethnocentric baloney, pigs, cows, dogs, whatever...
Okay so the Chinese eat dog...BFD. Americans eat pig and a great deal of the world doesn't and finds that objectionable. Is the US going to stop eating pork? Should I write an expose vis-a-vis the human rights violations in Iraq and Gitmo and relate it to the eating of pigs? How about going after all the countries that eat insects? Come on, get real.
Given the U.S. has 5% of the world's population yet uses 30% of the total resources, is the largest consumer (per capita) of animal flesh on the planet, we really shouldn't be going off on what other countries do. Once you kill an animal for food, the blood on your hands isn't any different. The animal is dead.
Frankly the general U.S. puritanical superiority complex, be it about war, religion, what animals you eat or don't, is tiring and stupid. How about being a grown up and accepting that other people in other parts of the world do things differently. Get over yourself.