(Nov 22, 2017 04:56 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Nov 22, 2017 07:06 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]From a culinary perspective, if you were going to a 5 star restaurant and paying top price for fish, you would expect it to be of equal quality. fish get stressed when they are taken from their normal day to day environment, farm/wild/area... and when they get stressed they pump hormones(Lactic acids & metabolites) into their muscles to allow them to swim faster. the more the fish is stressed out, the worse the taste of the fish. instead of something that melts in your mouth, you have something tasting gamey and is rubbery & fiborous and/or dry.
As with deer or land beasts at large. Which makes these Sinonese, Nipponese, etc cuisine approaches all the more peculiar. Taste doesn't seem to be a factor anymore than concern about parasites taking up residence in the gut or bloodstream. Or maybe there's some kind of gustatory aberrance involved, part of a more general deliberate orientation which inverts the response to sensory experiences normally conceived as unpleasant (like ice swimming).
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just rough memory
Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese cultures have a history of eating dogs.
additionally cats(and everything else literally).
The Asian Religion of beleiving that eating of a wild strong dangerous animal can give you more sexual strength or life power is still just as common as christianity or hindu or muslim.
i do not wish to get too graphic, there are plenty of youtube videos documenting the intentional bad treatment of animals to then cook & eat them beleiving in the religious ideology that it will make you stronger & live longer and have more sexual skill and sexual attraction.
incidentially, the meat is a very nasty taste.
thus the action of torturing the animal to death is part of the religous belief.
probably the most important part.
obviousely culture builds around and rationalises practices of survival, and in places where centurys of war & famine have been normalised, slavery & killing and eating and torturing other living things is deemed also normal.
MDMA/Extasy is potent & actually works
unlike Tiger penis from a dead or living tiger.
soo why is asia not awash with MDMA and in common use and legalised ?
probably because it does not have an element of torture & suffering in it.
look how far japan has come in only 75 years as a culture. they are deemed very peaceful/modern civilised and non violent.
yet as a comparative example, the USA probably consider themselves morally superior to japanses yet have violent crime completely out of control.
(Nov 23, 2017 02:33 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ] (Nov 22, 2017 04:56 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Nov 22, 2017 07:06 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]From a culinary perspective, if you were going to a 5 star restaurant and paying top price for fish, you would expect it to be of equal quality. fish get stressed when they are taken from their normal day to day environment, farm/wild/area... and when they get stressed they pump hormones(Lactic acids & metabolites) into their muscles to allow them to swim faster. the more the fish is stressed out, the worse the taste of the fish. instead of something that melts in your mouth, you have something tasting gamey and is rubbery & fiborous and/or dry.
As with deer or land beasts at large. Which makes these Sinonese, Nipponese, etc cuisine approaches all the more peculiar. Taste doesn't seem to be a factor anymore than concern about parasites taking up residence in the gut or bloodstream. Or maybe there's some kind of gustatory aberrance involved, part of a more general deliberate orientation which inverts the response to sensory experiences normally conceived as unpleasant (like ice swimming).
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Would there be evolution if one thing didn't eat another? Good thing our ancestors gobbled up critters on the fly, otherwise we might not be here to talk about wriggling dinners.
indeed, the availibility of protien to the species is argued as being the major defining factor to allow evolution to enable intellectual ability.
this over supply of protien to allow a certain amount of leisure time while having an excess of protien is probably extremely signifigant.
it is only recently that the species has been capable of extracting protien from non living animals to a point that can sustain a person and their breeding.
note small childrens intake of protien availibility is still highly contentious and problematic as a single principal of nutritional ideals.
a parent will always kill the wild beast to feed meat to their baby so it grows strong to survive in the wild or beat all the other humans at the social game etc.
