Is it wrong to eat cats?

[Jetgirl]

And in regards to the killing part, we could just amputate a limb.

Eh, too much trouble. I'd only eat human in a Stalingrad situation, but they'd have to be dead of other causes first.

 

[SH89]

Eh, too much trouble. I'd only eat human in a Stalingrad situation, but they'd have to be dead of other causes first.

Would you kill sombody for food?


Scenario: America is in a war with North Korea, and Kim somehow nukes some cities in California. You are left alone with no food,and with only 5 survivors in your city. After 1 week, the group decides that one should be killde for food. A sorry lad by the name of Bob gets the shortest straw. Would you comply in killing/eating this boy?

 

[Lokisdottir]

No, it's not immoral to eat cats, but I don't see why anyone would want to. Cats taste awful and are a poor source of energy. This is generally true of any tertiary predator, but is especially true of cats because meat provides 100% of their nutrition, at least in a natural environment.

The only reason I'd eat cats (besides being in a situation where I was starving to death) would be if I lived in a poor country and had little choice. Cats breed quickly and are an easily renewable food source, and would certainly be easier and cheaper to care for than beef cattle.

 

[freealaska]

If eating cats is wrong...I don't wanna be right!

 

[Eudaimonist]

Is it wrong to eat cats in America?

Let's just say that it's considered in poor taste.

 

[Jetgirl]

Let's just say that it's considered in poor taste.

Ha!

 

[Jetgirl]

Would you kill sombody for food?


Scenario: America is in a war with North Korea, and Kim somehow nukes some cities in California. You are left alone with no food,and with only 5 survivors in your city. After 1 week, the group decides that one should be killde for food. A sorry lad by the name of Bob gets the shortest straw. Would you comply in killing/eating this boy?

If everyone was able bodied I'd seriously have a problem with that. I'd consider it if someone was going to die anyway.

 

[JimmyKoKoPop]

If everyone was able bodied I'd seriously have a problem with that. I'd consider it if someone was going to die anyway.

I wouldn't need to, since I'd have secretely eaten my own arm when no one was looking.

 

[Lokisdottir]

I wouldn't need to, since I'd have secretely eaten my own arm when no one was looking.

I'd do it when someone was looking! And if they act disgusted, I'll say "Just be glad it isn't YOUR arm, buddy!"

...Actually, I wouldn't bother eating my own arm. If I'm starving to death, I'm probably already slowly digesting my own muscle tissue anyway, so I might as well not mangle myself further.

 

[bmoynihan]

There's a great game resturant in Colorado Springs, everything from boar to kangaroo. (The kangaroo is particularly good.)

Eating Kangaroo meat is EVIL, even more evil than most!

They hunt them in the wild, very often just hurthing them first before filling them close up. If they have a joey in the pouch, well they just get stamped on!

I think that eating any meat is wrong, but if you do eat meat they you cannot say that eating cat is wrong!

 

[bmoynihan]

Gator's good. Squid's good too. Both are a little rubbery, though.

So if it's not immoral to eat cat (which I don't think it is), what's immoral about eating other humans? You still gotta kill them against their will if you wanna eat them, the only difference is, it's the same species that you are. While from an evolutionary perspective it wouldn't be helpful for the survival of the species, I really see little that would be morally wrong with eating another human. Not that I would, I'm content with venison and good ol' beef. I probably won't try cat either, even though I almost did once (went to a restaurant that served 'gato', I didn't know gato meant cat and I almost ordered a gato taco )

You say your a Taoist, then you shouldn't really be eating meat!

 

[Blackmarch]

Is it wrong to eat cats in America?

depends on the extant of animal rights type laws... don't know if it's all right to shoot your own cat, skin it and eat it (doubt that you can do that, but it also depends where in the US as well)... but there's nothing wrong with importing one that already prepared for eating.

 

[Katya]

Well don't know about whether it's wrong to eat cats, but it's wrong to eat cat food. It's nasty.

 

[Mr. QWERTY]

4 drumsticks!

It is ok to eat cats. Distasteful, but not morally wrong.

I would eat human beings in extreme circumstances. In the Heart of the Sea
is an excellent book about a 19th century whaling ship that sank, and the crew wound up eating each other in the lifeboat.

Great book. Once you read it, you too might say that you would eat human beings. Under the right circumstances.

I have also read that highland tribesman in New Guinea, and area famous for cannibalism, may eat people because of their need for protein. There are no large mammals as protein sources, they are too far for fish, and the local crops are low on protein as well.

 

[HeyHomie]

Why is it wrong to eat one domesticated animal but not another? We eat pigs, cows, etc. So why not cats? Sure they're cute and cuddly, but so are little lambs, and we eat them too?

 

[SH89]

4 drumsticks!

It is ok to eat cats. Distasteful, but not morally wrong.

I would eat human beings in extreme circumstances. In the Heart of the Sea
is an excellent book about a 19th century whaling ship that sank, and the crew wound up eating each other in the lifeboat.

Great book. Once you read it, you too might say that you would eat human beings. Under the right circumstances.

I have also read that highland tribesman in New Guinea, and area famous for cannibalism, may eat people because of their need for protein. There are no large mammals as protein sources, they are too far for fish, and the local crops are low on protein as well.

Yea, good book. That was the same book/story that inspried the novel Moby Dick, correct? I knew paying attention in English would come in handy one day!

 

[Mr. QWERTY]

Yea, good book. That was the same book/story that inspried the novel Moby Dick, correct? I knew paying attention in English would come in handy one day!

Yes, that is the one. Provides a look at 19th century life in Nantucket, the economics of whaling, life at sea, and what it is like to decide whom to eat next.

If I remember correctly, there is a tenuous link to religion in there as well, with the author noting that the survivors tended to be men from Nantucket who went to church, rather than hirelings from other areas. Did they live because of their faith? Because they started off better fed than people from other areas? Or because they formed a natural alliance and ate people who did not live on Nantucket and go to their church?

And it is well written too.

 

[iluvquotes]

So if it's not immoral to eat cat (which I don't think it is), what's immoral about eating other humans? )

dude.. you cant be serious........

 

[Mr. QWERTY]

dude.. you cant be serious........

Why can't he?

The source of the meal is suspect, but lets get beyond that. If the meat was obtained in a morally acceptable way, such as somebody falling off of a cliff, and you are stuck in the wilderness, with no other food source, is the actual eating of a person morally wrong?

If so, why?

 

[Blackmarch]

Why can't he?

The source of the meal is suspect, but lets get beyond that. If the meat was obtained in a morally acceptable way, such as somebody falling off of a cliff, and you are stuck in the wilderness, with no other food source, is the actual eating of a person morally wrong?

If so, why?

... can't find psychedelist's post... however in regards to his question... supposing the person to be eaten and those that would care about him don't mind if he was eaten, then the only possible way for that to be immoral is if someone/thing or some organization/group could enforce a moral upon the those who would eat the person so as to make eating a person immoral.