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Originally Posted by steven
Unlike your situation, Columbine, I don't think people would be surprised in finding whale meat at the store at all (edit: in my area).
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Yeah, perhaps I should clarify that the people who were particularly surprised were all about 18-22yo. I did mention it to some of the old people I knew, and most of them were pretty much "Meh, it's there. I don't buy it personally 'cause I don't like the taste and it reminds me of the war." But I didn't talk about it too much, in case it stirred up a row!
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I have no idea as to whether pigs are self aware or not. If it turns out that they are then I will be against eating pigs too.
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Thought it worth mentioning, but ~some~ pigs have been shown to be self-aware. Or at least, they can understand a reflection; they may fail the dot test, but they can rationalize the image of a food bucket in a mirror and realize they need to go around a wall or something, rather than look behind the mirror. But it's only really been tested in a few breeds in a few non-representative locations under informal conditions, so we have no idea how universal this is, or even if it's simply that those pigs were particularly smart. Certainly unlike other self-aware animals, pigs haven't really been shown to exhibit mourning.