Animals you consider too smart to eat

[Darth Wagtaros]

I was recently told that though the Chinese eat dogs and cats they find the eating of Lobsters barbaric.  Most Chinese households have a pet lobster and it's not uncommon to see people outside walking them on the sidewalk.  Different cultures I suppose.

I deleted what I originally wrote. 

Walking lobsters? Really? On little leashes?  Do they take them out on Incan torpedo boats for summer holidays?

[The Larch]

[Darth Wagtaros]

I don't think lobsters can even walk on land.  Let alone survive out of water.  Unless the Chicoms have developed a master race of giant space lobsters.  The secret Origin of Doctor Zoidburg.

[Ideologue]

I don't think lobsters can even walk on land.  Let alone survive out of water.  Unless the Chicoms have developed a master race of giant space lobsters.  The secret Origin of Doctor Zoidburg.

Dunno.  Depends on how long they can keep moisture in their gills.  Pill bugs, another crustacean, do it fine, and crabs routinely leave the water.  But lobsters are obviously marine, so I don't know how far this analogy goes--I mean, whales breathe air, but dehydrate and die shockingly swiftly.

However, I think it would be neat if there are Chinese Crazy Lobster Ladies.

[DisturbedPervert]

I don't think lobsters can even walk on land.  Let alone survive out of water. 

They can survive on land for a bit.  I can remember trying to make lobsters fight each other as a kid before throwing them in to the pot of boiling water.

[Josquius]

As opposed to corn (or chickpeas, or wheat, etc.) fed beef.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot

corn fed beef

@ Jos- why rodents?

I've always had them as pets and like them. They're clever and pretty human like in some of their behaviour.
That you would have to kill a dozen of them to get a decent meal just adds to the no factor.

[Caliga]

I had a pet guinea pig and my brother had a pet mouse.  I always liked rodent pets, but Princesca will not have them. 

I liked the mouse better.  He was a tough little fucker.  My brother forgot about him for a couple of weeks once and he was still alive. 

[Viking]

Dolphins which will soon be eaten in the Faroe Islands.



As they say in Canton, "The Cantonese will eat anything on the ground but the chair, anything in the water but the ship and anything in the air but the aeroplane."

[Sahib]

Nordic savages 

[Darth Wagtaros]

I had a pet guinea pig and my brother had a pet mouse.  I always liked rodent pets, but Princesca will not have them. 

I liked the mouse better.  He was a tough little fucker.  My brother forgot about him for a couple of weeks once and he was still alive. 

Friend of mine has a big rodent fetish.  He claims the many cardboard tubes in his house are for his guinea pigs to chew on, but we know better.

Apparently guinea pigs are used forp izza toppings in some countries.

[Caliga]

Well, they're raised in little herds specificially for their meat in Peru.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Guinea pig bacon?

[Valmy]

Valmy's a cowboy!?

On my Uncle's farm in Oklahoma...I did all my cowboying on foot though.

[Razgovory]

I was recently told that though the Chinese eat dogs and cats they find the eating of Lobsters barbaric.  Most Chinese households have a pet lobster and it's not uncommon to see people outside walking them on the sidewalk.  Different cultures I suppose.

I deleted what I originally wrote. 

Walking lobsters? Really? On little leashes?  Do they take them out on Incan torpedo boats for summer holidays?

What did you originally write?

[Ed Anger]

Friend of mine has a big rodent fetish.  He claims the many cardboard tubes in his house are for his guinea pigs to chew on, but we know better.

Apparently guinea pigs are used forp izza toppings in some countries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136cNGNd7Yg