Why These Animals?

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the West, when it comes to which meat is for dinner, we nearly always choose beef, pork, or chicken. Yet cows and pigs are only two of more than five thousand of species of mammals, and chicken is one of ten thousand species of birds. Meanwhile, at different times in history and in different places around the world, people have enjoyed dining on all sorts of animals, from elephants to flamingos to jellyfish. So how do individuals and cultures decide which animals to eat, and which they don’t? And why is this decision so divisive—why do many Americans look with such horror on those who eat, say, horse or dog? Listen in this episode for a healthy serving of myth-busting—about domestication, disgust, and deliciousness—as we explore this thorny question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.
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0:58.0	I really smooth and squishy, a powerfully perfect combo. Sweet Tarts, dare to combine.
1:05.0	Well, basically, I got this question a lot when I was a kid,
1:09.0	and I didn't really understand why people thought this?
1:12.0	Like, they thought that it was something to ask me in particular?
1:15.0	I just had no idea.
1:16.0	Like, never even talked about eating dog at home.
1:19.0	So, I didn't, you know, I didn't know.
1:22.0	That was Zalaiho, and she's talking about something that many of you will find sort of horrifying.
1:27.0	Eating dog.
1:28.0	So, they grew up in Chicago and New York, her family is Vietnamese,
1:31.0	and as a kid, she had no idea that people ate dog.
1:34.0	Her family didn't. They never talked about it.
1:36.0	And so, when people asked her if her family ate dog, she was totally flummoxed.
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