'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

So a baby pig? That is disgusting. I am vegetarian and pigs aremy favourite animals.

One thing eating a full grown pig although I would not want to see it's body on a plate or spit but a baby pig is awful

Then why are the hounding a restaurant owner who won’t sell halal

Not quite correct.

It is because pork is considered dirty. Because back in the day people genuinely got sick from eating pork due the poor conditions the pigs were in.

Muslims don’t care if anyone else eats pigs or not. They are not going to be offended by seeing a dead pig just because they are Muslim.

I thought that it was more to do with the dangers of fluke, etc at the time.

I wish I could ban what I didn’t like 😎

Because Mohammad didn’t like it. Everything he personally didn’t like he banned.

I don't think that it's now terribly common in the UK. Much more common on the Continent, however.

It's an evolutionary response, not a rational one.

Most humans don't like the thought of eating meat...but enjoy eating meat. Something of a curse for being a species of empathetic, self-aware omnivores. A lot of people rely on a cognitive disassociation between meat and animal. This is particularly the case when the meat is of other mammals.

Studies have repeatedly shown that, even among meat eaters, the less an animal looks like an animal, the more willing they are to eat it.

Even among meat eaters, about 15-20% would feel too empathetic towards, and disgusted at the thought of eating, a headless but otherwise-whole, roast suckling pig. That jumps to 40% to 45% who would refuse if the head was left on. (2016 Kunst and Hohle study, for those numbers, and not an outlier).

Morally, there's no good distinction, but eating an intact, juvinile mammal runs contrary to evolutionary traits which not all humans experience uniformly.

Why is it that so many vegans tend towards the misogynistic phraseology, by the way? Cunts, mouldy mammary secretions, rape, it's all about the female being disgusting.

Not just the incontinence pads causing you issues, is there?

Tbh, I'm sympathetic to the OP on this, but see arguments for an against.

In most Western countries, meat (particularly from mammals) is generally presented in abstract form, not recognizable as an animal. A lot of people rely on that in order to be able to compartmentalize a love for animals with eating meat.

For suckling pigs and other juvenile animals in particular, humans are "programmed" on an evolutionary level to feel empathy towards juvenile mammalian features. The vast majority of humans experience that to some extent, but the degree of the reaction varies from person to person.

I personally do find it grotesque, and instinctively find it extremely difficult to understand how anyone could enjoy the "spectacle" of it all.

There is, though, a really good argument for having the reality of what you're eating be entirely upfront, rather than trying to make abstract the act of eating meat - it is, at least, unflinchingly honest.

Do you know why Muslims don’t eat pork?

Hint - it’s not because they are fawning over little baby piglets!

That’s not nice especially when it’s a fact.

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Yeah ok you win. You are the smartest bestest person.
I am surprised you even bother to challenge someone so below tbh

I would say the vast majority of the population over the age of 12 understand meat is from animals.. but most people don't go on social media proudly stating that they have no qualms about eating any type of animal, baby ones, fluffy ones, cute ones. Like most people I understand where meat comes from, but unlike you I also consider how that animal gets to be on your plate. What it goes through. The fear and the pain. I'll assume you know they gas pigs these days as it's cheaper and more cost efficient. They lower them into a chamber of CO2 gas where they scream and thrash and panic as they lose consciousness. You'll also know that pigs are known to be very intelligent. But that doesn't matter to you. Have you got a dog or cat btw?
You keep mentioning the word "cute" as if you're even more proud of the fact that it doesn't bother you to eat them either.
You're obviously not used to being challenged about your selfish views, and your response is to say that. 'I'm about to have an aneurysm'. How childish

There is nothing boasty about understanding meat is from animals, including cute ones, and being fine with it🤷 it should be normal imho.
It's only rational not to eat something when it poses risk to you. Certain animals, mushrooms, plants. We all consider that when eating.

Honestly, I am not the one looking like a troll or looking like I am about to have aneurysm here...

I'm don't eat meat, but this doesn't bother me at all. It really is no odds if the dead animal is served in little tiny pieces or as a whole carcass. Serving it as a whole animal is at least honest.
I get really annoyed with meat eaters who "can't" eat meat if it still looks like an animal, it's so weak-minded. If they want to eat meat, that's fine, it's totally their choice, but they should own that choice, or be honest that they're uncomfortable with things dying and give up eating it.

I like nature. I also eat nature. Natural thing.
Yeah would eat hedgehog nd considering I already had cricket protein bars that are on sale, I don't see reason why not butterflies? Unless it again about the cutness, which it generally seem to be.
I don't eat brains, even lamb ones, that's DH's speciality. Actual monkey brains are not generally eaten anywhere due to the risk anyway. It's more of a fiction they are eaten in modern world based on some historical accounts

Is that the best you can do?!!

That is not what I said, don't twist my words to make yourself feel better. You go and have a lie down dear. Flesh eaters don't like being called out, it's probably shaken you up

What about a hedgehog or perhaps a nice plateful of butterflies as a starter. Where you you draw your line? Monkey brains? They're a delicacy in some places. Funny when I saw your username I imagined you were going to be a nature lover.