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Newsflash: Unlike Hindu and Muslim, our food choices are not religious!
You cannot put an equal sign between my refusal to eat dogs and some Muslim's or Hindi's refusal to eat pork or beef.
Their choices are religious and cultural. Mine is intellectual, and therefore IS in fact superior, for the same reason my belief in evolution is superior to someones belief in creation.
If you think that following a religious dogma is equal in value as making a conscious, free decision, you are a right-winger, and if I wanted to waste my time talking to right-wingers I would not be on Salon in the first place.
I may not be successful in persuading anyone to not eat dogs, but I sure as hell have the right to try without being called "culturally arrogant".