Word: meat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the ostensibly righteous cruelty Ritai’s men serve to those that threaten the wilderness they protect. In one especially disquieting scene, the mountain patrol looks out over a vast field of sun-bleached antelope carcasses as a pair of marauding vultures picks them clean of their meat. During these moments, Lu draws us close to the mountain patrol, sharing in not only their disgust, but also their terror. It’s all the more tragic, then, when Lu argues the poacher’s case with nearly equal force: when Ritai instructs his men to sell...
...Durang says of Catholic school and “Sister Mary.” “As I child, I just accepted it: You go to hell for murder, you go to hell for just about every sex act, almost, and you go to hell for eating meat on Friday. That’s the kind of thing the play looked at.”“I just thought everyone else had come to that conclusion by now,” he says, repeating his surprise that people find his work controversial...
...Montana is not the first state to consider dietary laws that discriminate on the basis of cross-species friendship. The sale of dog meat is already illegal in seven states and environmentalists in Hawaii are working hard to add another to the list. Legally, dogs are honored with the category of “companion animal,” presumably because they are considered cute, fluffy, and generally useful—if you happen to have lost a Frisbee...
...concerns or on account of the would-be-meal’s danger of extinction. As to the former, it is true that animals higher up the food chain are more hazardous to eat—since they tend to ingest and accumulate more chemicals—but dog meat is no more dangerous than shellfish and hardly merits its own special ban. And as for the latter, as any Parisian will tell you, the world’s dog population is hardly in danger...
This is just the problem. Bans on dog meat tell the public not that dog meat is unsafe, but that dog-eaters are—beyond being distasteful to the mainstream—so morally degrading to society as to be worthy of explicit legislation prohibiting their unsavory habits. Worse, such laws discriminate—in effect if not intent—against ethnic groups that traditionally eat dog meat—namely, some East and Southeast Asian cultures. Dog is considered a delicacy in many Asian countries; unfortunately for new immigrants to the Land of the Free, here...