Cute bunnies

[andrewducker]

What's the most fitting way of dealing with your deceased pet bunny?

Some might say this.

But only if they have a strong stomach.

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

It gets funnyer....

Go to my friends page, and look at the post that precedes this post....

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Again, the idiocy and illogic of most people stuns me.

I can't figure out where they get the moral outrage from. Maybe they just can't face the fact that meat was once a cute fluffy/feathery animal (or a shiny scaly swimmy one). maybe they don't admit that they'd eat their pets (yes and kill them too) if they were hungry enough. It's clearly daft to get as attached to animals as to people (and most people are too attached to people as it is!). I hasten to add that I most strongly do not believe in any sort of cruelty to any animal, but I'll happily eat ones that were kept and died humanely.

I must admit that before I followed the link, and I thought "what do you do with your dead bunny?" that thoughts of fennel, garlic, onions and rosemary did feature. Whether I'd actually do it, I have no idea. Something is going to eat it.

But then I eat a lot of rabbits, and I do hate waste.

heh

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

Sooo ... should you be able to eat another person (assuming you weren't responsible for their death) without others' moral outrage?

I mean, we are made out of meat.

Re: heh

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Precisely what I meant. I don't see why not. When you are dead you are dead and something is going to eat you.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

While not the way I do things, it seems like a not unreasonable way to deal with such an event. People in some other cultures do this with their own dead, why not with pets.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

It's interesting.

I don't really have anything against it, though I'd like to know more information on how cremation would create pollution for the environment.

I also find the photo of the frying pan a bit humourous. If the person is genuine, I'm not entirely sure what they were trying to achieve with that.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, the person is, at the least a bit odd.

I know that when my father lived on a farm they used to exchange animals with the farm next door, so you weren't eating an animal you'd recognise...

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I had a moment of knee-jerk revulsion that probably had as much to do with the before-and-after aspect of meat that we modern types don't get exposed to as the fact it was a pet. Then I applied a little reason. It reminded me of the various "primitive" cultures who, upon killing an animal, apologize to it and honor it before they dress out, cook, and eat it. If you ask me, factory farming is altogether sicker than this.

Notice that most of the non-anonymous responders appeared, judging by their speech patterns and user pics, to be teenage girls? I made this icon (well, I animated the picture and the caption is all) just for them!

Well, and I hope to get further use out of it.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Hmm... the picture is doing something weird. I'll have to edit it and upload it again tomorrow.

heh

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

I personally think they're full of shit. I mean, really.

Do we believe everything we read?

Hey, I can post a picture of my cats, a plate of chicken parts and a good story, but that doesn't mean I ate the motherfuckers!

[redshira.livejournal.com]

Whether it's true or not - let's suppose, for the sake of the argument, that it was.
I have no problem with it. It's not typical of the culture we live in but it's far from unheard of. As a lot of people pointed out, it would have been necessary to know what the cause of death was, but if the rabbit didn't die of anything that might cause a problem to anyone eating - well - why not? I can see the thought-process behind it...I think it's a respectful thing to do. Then again, I am the girl who freaked out a flatmate by telling him in all seriousness (and the fact that he knew I wasn't joking was what freaked him out) that there was plenty of good eating on his thighs. I wouldn't have sliced his leg up to eat him, of course - but I see all animals, including humans, as being equal. A friend of mine said if he ever cut his hand off (he had the kind of job where that was a risk), he would either bronze it and use it as an ashtray, or he would cook and eat it. If I lost a limb or something like that, I suspect I might possibly do the same, depending on the circumstances in which the limb was lost.
Does that make me sick? I don't think so. If I were to go randomly killing people so I could have something I fancied for lunch, then I think it might be a cause for concern.
I do think posting the photos of the meat was tad much though. That, I think, was disrespectful to the rabbit.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

The overly maudlin tone of the post strongly suggests to me that it's fake. In any case, I'm amused by the hypocrisy of the people who are outraged over this -- it's ok to kill a cow and eat it, but not ok to eat a rabbit who died of natural causes? (I'm sure not all of the angry people are vegetarians.) People like this give animal rights a bad name.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I must admit that that thought (it's fake) had occurred to me. I haven't actually been bothered to look at the context (i.e. rest of the journal) but the whole journal could easily be a set up for playing such pranks. (or even for spurring rational discussions suh as this?)

[rollick.livejournal.com]

I agree with everyone who thinks he might possibly be having us on, though after 635 comments of "your sick! and need sychiatric help and to go to Jail!!11!!1!" he may be regretting that post, whether it's serious or not.

Personally, I wouldn't eat something that had died of an unknown ailment, and I wouldn't have the heart to skin and eat a pet. But the sheer rabid, ignorant, drooling vitriol this guy is getting trips my triggers enough to make me want to support him.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Have posted about this on my livejournal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/yonmei/129086.html) - I was most impressed with the volume of comments generated in three days.