I think they're banking on the fact that people tend to form higher emotional attachments to dogs and cats so they spam a bunch of them to get them thinking that way.
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Which is likely the same reason they don't include fish, snakes, locusts, those ants whose butts people pop, octopus, or scorpions. People eat these things, too after all, but they don't market as well
I feel like they should go all in, if they're gonna market "eating meat is bad" then commit and throw some shrimps in there, why not some monkey's or turtles
When people asks me ine of the usual question "WhAt if you aRe in tHe WoOds with nOtHinG to eAt" well duh I understand emergencies and will try to survive. However, in the occasions that I have eaten meat by mistake I get explosive diarrhea now so I might die faster if I suddenly one day eat a horse so I would still look for plants, seeds, fruits, and roots first, even fish. If not, well, we'll see how it goes....
It would likely take significantly less effort to find and eat plant matter in an "emergency-in-the-wilderness" scenario. Presuming you've not been trained to hunt, catching most animals in the wild is not exactly easy - especially without tools. Not to mention you'd still have to clean the animal, cook it, and wash after.
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That said, If you DO manage to successfully hunt or trap an animal, you will likely have a larger meal for a longer quantity of time than scavenging for plant material would yield
Also if I'm alone or just a couple people meat might go bad before we can finish it anyways. Again assuming I go from city girl who just gardens to hunter like you mentioned
That's what sun-drying it into jerky is for. If you know what you are doing, one pig can last you around 5-8 months depending on surrounding conditions and your own body's protein requirements.
To me it depends on whether the animal is mine or at least whether I know it or not. I'd eat an unknown dog before my own chicken (the day I can get chicken).
Why are rabbits further left than horses? People still eat rabbits in the US pretty commonly, there's a rabbit season in most places and they tend to get put in stew.
Yea but horse meat is actually taboo in some places. I don't know of anywhere that considers rabbit meat taboo or refuses to eat rabbits for any reason other than the fact it's not kosher
I'd eat damn near any insect before thinking about going after a bat. Without a team, the insect is an easier source of protein. Now... if I saw a python hunting bats, as much as I love pythons, that fucker is as good as dead.
You can tell that it is a bad argument because they put the majority of animals as ones that people would not normally eat in the us (9 compared to 5), and they also put dog and cat multiple times to make the not eat section larger and fill it with animals that we form emotional bonds with to make it seem like we should do that with all animals. Just the dogs and cats form 1/2 of the animals pictured. If it was realistic, there would be one cat, one dog, but also things like insects, waterfowl/poultry, elk, fish, and other seafood. This would be more representative of the truth, but they do not care about that. You can also see that they refrained from using something like a guinea pig in the pets section because in a large quantity of places they eat those, so that would make their argument weaker even though it is more realistic.
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Which is likely the same reason they don't include fish, snakes, locusts, those ants whose butts people pop, octopus, or scorpions. People eat these things, too after all, but they don't market as well
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That said, If you DO manage to successfully hunt or trap an animal, you will likely have a larger meal for a longer quantity of time than scavenging for plant material would yield