Its All A Matter Of Perception

There are those who will not eat pork. A cow is sacred to some. Dog and cat is a taboo food source for most. Horses must only be food product for other animals. Growing up in the country, your food more then likely consisted of rabbit or squirrel, venison was often on the table. Killing and cleaning your food was an everyday part of life at one time. What that food source would be depended on whether or not you caught anything that day. To judge another culture for what they consider food is presumptuous in the extreme. We as Americans whine and cry about world hunger, and yet we chemically euthanize thousands of animals a day. Rendering them useless for consumption just to appease our sense of right and wrong. While all the starving children go to bed with an empty stomach once again, we sleep soundly in our righteousness that at least no one on our watch is eating Fluffy or Fido. Its all a matter of perception, what is not food to you may very well be a delicacy to others. At the very least, it could mean the difference between life or death.