Suspected animal abuser in Brooklyn park was just man roasting guinea pig at barbecue area

[anon29631895]

@seedroller

is probably chowing down on some delicious cuy right about now

caveat eator
Guinea pig feasts may explain high rates of deadly parasite in Peru | Science/AAAS | News

[Bobo]

@Bobo

How do you know they wouldn’t be willing to? I’m sure a large proportion of them would, they just choose not to. I have much better uses for my leisure time, frankly.

You’re making an assumption that I did not state. I have contempt specifically for people who would not be willing to end a life and cut up an animal to eat meat, not just people who buy meat in a store, which is most of us, or as you state “a large proportion”. I know that they wouldn’t be willing to because I have spoken to a fair number of people who have told me exactly that. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told “oh, there’s no way I could kill something, just to eat meat”; something that makes me think “but you are, you’re just disconnected from the act!”.

There are a lot of folks for whom buying meat in a store is just a convenience (and these are the people who I don’t have a “beef” with). It’s the folks who would ask someone else to shoulder a burden that they wouldn’t be willing to bear that I have an issue with.

[WearySky]

@Bobo

You’re making an assumption that I did not state. I have contempt specifically for people who would not be willing to end a life and cut up an animal to eat meat, not just people who buy meat in a store, which is most of us, or as you state “a large proportion”.

I wasn’t making an assumption, since your original statement didn’t say “only a certain type of styrofoam platter and cling film meat eaters”. You referred to all of them:

@Bobo

I do have some degree of contempt for the “styrofoam platter and cling film” meat eaters out there. People who wouldn’t be willing to kill and process the meat themselves.

Having said that, I can’t really have a problem with people who are too squeamish to actually kill an animal in order to eat it. Though I would definitely have a problem with people who say “Hunting is a cruel and barbaric act” (even for hunters who eat the animals that they hunt) who then go and buy a platter of veal (or beef, or chicken, or whatever) at the supermarket.

[navarro]

just for the record, my wife and i ate guinea pig at different points during a vacation in peru. it was fairly tasty. it really was a lot like rabbit.