Taboo Soup

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

There's a reason certain foods are taboo to you. Have you ever tried to find those reasons?

Yes, because it's either rotten, or i don't like the taste.



LMNO
-finds no foods taboo.

[The Lamanite]

Ok, well ask yourself this question:

Why can't you get a kitten patty as easily as you can get a beef patty?

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

I dunno, maybe it's because you can get more meat off a cow than a kitten?





Also, please note your conflation of what I consider taboo and what the masses consider taboo.  One or the other, bub.

[The Lamanite]

I dunno, maybe it's because you can get more meat off a cow than a kitten?





Also, please note your conflation of what I consider taboo and what the masses consider taboo.  One or the other, bub.

I know I don't think your stupid or that i'm teaching you anything new, I'm just trying to get you to look at the subject matter in a different way.

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

What subject matter?  That the idiot masses are, well, idiot masses?

I'm sure you can find a better way of pointing out social hypocrisy than slaughtering a cat in your front yard. 

I'd suggest one that doesn't get you arrested.

[The Lamanite]

I was trying to go a bit deeper than that, like for example the many valuable food sources out there, and we have people starving. Or establishing how we're told what we can eat. But I think you summed it up okay.

[Misery's Feed Trough]

So what are these other valuable food sources, just out of curiousity?

[The Lamanite]

Think about all the animals gettin put down in animal shelters daily.

Homeless children

Bugs

Whatever you can put hot sauce on.

[That One Guy]

I was trying to go a bit deeper than that, like for example the many valuable food sources out there, and we have people starving. Or establishing how we're told what we can eat. But I think you summed it up okay.

1) That's a distribution problem rather than a "what do we eat" problem regarding starving people. We HAVE enough food for 99% of the population (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that), but the distribution of that food to all of the people that need it is the issue. Besides, get hungry enough and there is NO food that is taboo. Cannibalism, eating insects, even your neighboor's cat or dog. Get hungry enough and you WILL eat it, because the survival instinct overrides your pre-existing conditioning. Or you starve.

2) "What we're told we can eat" is merely societal conditioning. One society conditions its members that beef is taboo (the Sacred Cow) but chicken is fine. Another conditions that dog meat or horse meat is acceptable. If you change your conditioning (say, convert to Hinduism) part of reconfiguring your conditioning is to replace one set of arbitrary limits (in this case whatever you currently think is "taboo" to eat) with the arbitrary limits of the societal framework you're accepting (in this case, beef becomes "taboo" and other things that might have been taboo to you will now be socially acceptable).

Ditch the need or desire to follow societal conditions and there are NO taboos that are imposed from outside. Your only limits become the limits you place on yourself, not just with food but with everything.

[Misery's Feed Trough]

Yeah, I'll have an order of Stray Cat, with extra mange.  

[hunter s.durden]

TOG hit it.

When looked at as a creature of survival, humans can eat a lot of goofy shit.

[The Lamanite]

Not only that but..........


I just wanted to point out that a persons basic right to conume energy is taken away from them when there ridiculous laws. Pretty soon you'll need a permit to breath air. But yeah That One Guy broke it down better than I ever could.

[Triple Zero]

Think about all the animals gettin put down in animal shelters daily.

Homeless children

Bugs

Whatever you can put hot sauce on.

1. you just put "homeless children" in a list of "other valuable food sources"

2. on a more serious note, if people are actually starving, i don't think they care about society taboos anymore.

[Suu]

I was trying to go a bit deeper than that, like for example the many valuable food sources out there, and we have people starving. Or establishing how we're told what we can eat. But I think you summed it up okay.

1) That's a distribution problem rather than a "what do we eat" problem regarding starving people. We HAVE enough food for 99% of the population (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that), but the distribution of that food to all of the people that need it is the issue. Besides, get hungry enough and there is NO food that is taboo. Cannibalism, eating insects, even your neighboor's cat or dog. Get hungry enough and you WILL eat it, because the survival instinct overrides your pre-existing conditioning. Or you starve.

2) "What we're told we can eat" is merely societal conditioning. One society conditions its members that beef is taboo (the Sacred Cow) but chicken is fine. Another conditions that dog meat or horse meat is acceptable. If you change your conditioning (say, convert to Hinduism) part of reconfiguring your conditioning is to replace one set of arbitrary limits (in this case whatever you currently think is "taboo" to eat) with the arbitrary limits of the societal framework you're accepting (in this case, beef becomes "taboo" and other things that might have been taboo to you will now be socially acceptable).

Ditch the need or desire to follow societal conditions and there are NO taboos that are imposed from outside. Your only limits become the limits you place on yourself, not just with food but with everything.

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[The Lamanite]

I was trying to go a bit deeper than that, like for example the many valuable food sources out there, and we have people starving. Or establishing how we're told what we can eat. But I think you summed it up okay.

1) That's a distribution problem rather than a "what do we eat" problem regarding starving people. We HAVE enough food for 99% of the population (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that), but the distribution of that food to all of the people that need it is the issue. Besides, get hungry enough and there is NO food that is taboo. Cannibalism, eating insects, even your neighboor's cat or dog. Get hungry enough and you WILL eat it, because the survival instinct overrides your pre-existing conditioning. Or you starve.

2) "What we're told we can eat" is merely societal conditioning. One society conditions its members that beef is taboo (the Sacred Cow) but chicken is fine. Another conditions that dog meat or horse meat is acceptable. If you change your conditioning (say, convert to Hinduism) part of reconfiguring your conditioning is to replace one set of arbitrary limits (in this case whatever you currently think is "taboo" to eat) with the arbitrary limits of the societal framework you're accepting (in this case, beef becomes "taboo" and other things that might have been taboo to you will now be socially acceptable).

Ditch the need or desire to follow societal conditions and there are NO taboos that are imposed from outside. Your only limits become the limits you place on yourself, not just with food but with everything.

After further reflection I have to disagree with what you siad under number one:

The problem isn't distribution. The problem is we lost the basic skills it takes to feed ourselves or family. We're dependent on someone else to feed us, regardless of what social factors lead us to this point. This holds true to a third world country as does to microwaving a T.V. dinner.

There are conditions that prevent you from building your own weapons and going out and bagging yourself a meal and then preparing it. Wehter it's your neighbors kid, or a giraffe, doesn't matter someones always there to fuck with you. It boils down to  a loss of knowledge.