Shiv Ramdas: I struggle so much with this one damn, because I agree with the smuggers here but you are correct

So this is horrible, of course, but look how selective and hypocritical our outrage is: if he had been eating any other animal it would have been fine. We have decided that _some_ animals are okay to kill and deserve no sympathy because their flesh tastes good, and other animals should be protected.

I thought “RFK ate a dog” was metaphorical, but I was startled to find out today that RFK really *did* eat a dog and took comedy photos with the corpse

It is an incredibly deep seated cultural aversion in the West, you are not going to be able to logic people out of it, and it’s tiresome when commentators make smug comments to this effect about how “illogical” this aversion is.

I struggle so much with this one damn, because I agree with the smuggers here but you are correct

The same exact argument about cultural aversions could be used to push someone in the opposite direction towards eating other animals.

I mean I'm from a country where there is a very large lobby that goes around literally lynching ppl for eating beef so yes, but its a complicated thing at a whole lot of levels

I was in a (terrible) community leadership program. One session was devoted to EDI & we were to bring dishes to demonstrate how accepting the group was. I brought lamb kofte, to prove the exercise was a farce. Amazing how many people loved the "beef" meatbals until they found out it was lamb kofte.

I knew historically lamb and sheep have fallen out of favor in North America in favor of pork and beef, but I didn't realize there was actually an aversion to it for some people now. How interesting.

It's not always taste: for many, it's like veal "how can you eat a baby x?" The program leader was British & liked lamb & liked the dish. I told her about reactions. She was floored. I told her it wasn't surprising and that was exactly why I cooked it. She disliked me even more afterwards 😆

I still remember when we visited Wales back in late May 1999. Driving through valleys into a small town you could see all these sheep and lambs gamboling on the hillsides. We get into town and head to a pub to eat and every table has a little "Fresh spring lamb!" sign on it. We ordered it :)

I see it on menus at restaurants all the time, I didn’t really think there was aversion to it

I know people who can't stand the smell of cooking, and avoid restaurants where it's prepared, but will otherwise eat it.

There is. Some can't stand the taste but others get into the entire "how can you eat baby animals" thing and other won't try it because its strange to them.

I'm just one online skeleton, but I started eating lamb when I learned it's a sorta sustainable byproduct of wool production. Mostly off beef for opposite reason.

It's also super high in iron.

I had no idea people have an aversion to lamb, because in Australia it's the preferred bbq meat!

Yeah. It's really interesting telling people that it's not beef. You see *all* the emotions and thoughts in those first few seconds...

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