Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pieā¦
I ate a guinea pig at an Ecuadoran restaurant in Baltimore once. Looked a lot like the picture accompanying this story. I remember playing with the thingās little head toward the end of dinnerā¦ I really should track down the photos my buddies took.
Meanwhile I bet plenty of people roast pigs of non-guinea variety on those public grills without raising any suspicion whatsoever.
I donāt understand why you wouldnāt take this opportunity to show the adsmorshable outfits in which South Americans dress up guinea pigs before they devour them
AAAAAGHH LOOK AT ITS LITTLE HAT!!
My mom ate this local delicacy on a trip to Peru.
Now my husbandās favorite put down is, āYour mother eats guinea pigs!ā
If you choose well, you can have a thriving toupee business on the side.
Guinea pigs do look like they taste good.
People are full of contradictions about animals and I donāt leave myself out. If someone hurt my cats I would make them regret ever having been born, yet I routinely eat pigs who were murdered for my dining pleasure.
Iām as OK with this as I am be with any meat eating as long the man did not acquire the animal on the pretense that he or she was meant to be a pet.
This sort of highlight that the difference between āabuseā and āfoodā can sometimes be ill defined. Logically, abuse is abuse, no matter the animal, but I suspect your average Western omnivore sees a significant difference between killing āfood animalsā vs killing āpet animalsā.
I hear cuy is pretty good.
And capybaras, along with beavers, were considered fish by the Catholic church so they could be eaten on passover.
I eat meat, yet I love my kidsā guinea pigs, way better than pet rabbits. It makes me sad that an attractive social animal who will not even bite in self defense would be slaughtered, then I remember lamb.
I completely get vegans, I identify most with a friend from college days in Oregon, she was vegan except wild animals she had personally killed with a high powered rifle.
The guy in the story sounds like he was lucky for not getting zapped or otherwise abused by a racist cop. A friend from NYC used to get his pet guinea pigs at the South American market where you could pick your dinner like from the lobster tank so the concept of cuy might be more familiar to cops there.
Since I eat chicken and fish (actual fish, with gills and whatnot) I canāt logically explain why I wouldnāt eat a capybara, but I just couldnāt bring myself to take a bite of an animal that cute. Iād eat the corn instead.
Oh, who am I kidding? Iād share the corn.
Iām as OK with this as I am be with any meat eating as long the man did not acquire the animal on the pretense that he or she was meant to be a pet.
ā¦how does that make a difference, exactly? Itās not like animals that are acquired for non-pet purposes do so consensually. Are people that abuse children they legitimately adopt morally worse than people who abuse children they buy from traffickers with the explicit intent to abuse?
Or was that bit not so much an attempt to explain and legitimize your inner contradiction, but rather to illustrate how brazenly illogical and contradictory (omnivorous) peoplesā thinking about this tends to be?
By āPassoverā do you mean āLentā?
Whoops 
Heh, and my wife is Catholic to boot.
Complete and utter tangent: when I was 20 years old, I quietly asked my devout mother in law an earnest question, āā¦does the Pope really shit in the woods?ā
Hilarity ensued.
Well he is an animal abuser - but no more or less than anyone else who eats meat.
There was a petition being circulated by some of my friends on FB which demanded to ban some Chinese festival that featured eating dog-meat. I was really divided on that because while I know many of those friends have dogs and view them as family- though many of them arenāt vegan, I felt I would be a hypocrite condemning people across half the planet for eating one kind of mammal while I gleefully eat other kinds.
I donāt see the mere act of eating animals as āabuseā, since it is an extremely normal part of nature and of being an animal. That said, I agree that the maintenance, management and killing of our preys ought to be done humanely and responsibly. I can totally endorse pressing for wholesome living conditions of livestock, the banning of hunting/eating threatened species, promoting a diet of mostly plant-based sources, etc. But just yelling at people because the meat they eat happens to be more fluffy and sociable (supposedly) than your own meat doesnāt make any sense to me.
