Girl Talk on Sidechat | Tell me why my friend told me eating my DEAD guinea pig as a family was disgusting we cooked it and honor all our dead pets in this way. it’s part of papua culture, we eat deceased pets Meanwhile Americans THROW their pets in the dirt and waste the meat

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Tell me why my friend told me eating my DEAD guinea pig as a family was disgusting we cooked it and honor all our dead pets in this way. it’s part of papua culture, we eat deceased pets Meanwhile Americans THROW their pets in the dirt and waste the meat

Anonymous 3w

with all due love and respect. there’s not enough money in the world that anyone could pay me to consume my dog when she passes away. i consider my dog my child and i could never be convinced to eat my child. it’s not “wasteful” to give the animal that was a part of our family a proper burial. my dog is going to be cremated when she dies is that “wasteful” in your opinion. i think your friend should’ve phrased that better but you shouldn’t be telling others that the way they grieve their-

Anonymous 3w

That's fucked up

Anonymous 3w

americans have a very sanitized culture, we (generally) avoid seeing any sort of connection to death or ‘gross’ stuff. people are led to believe that cooking an animal and eating it is perfectly fine but only if they didn’t see the animal live and breathe, only if they ever see chunks of it wrapped and refrigerated on a grocery shelf. it’s weird and hypocritical, and i’m sorry someone said that to you. honoring your pets like this is very beautiful and shows how you value life!

Anonymous 3w

Pets are family, i couldn’t think about eating them

Anonymous 3w

i think it’s because the vast majority of people don’t eat their dead pets and cooking them, let alone eating them is extremely out of the norm. most people usually bury or cremate their animals when they pass away.

Anonymous 3w

wtf did i just read

Anonymous

#1 3w

I wonder if it has something to do with how we see our pets more like a human than other animals, so we bury/cremate them as we would any other human relative due to how our own culture treats the dead

Anonymous 3w

I think #3 has a good point. We love meat but god forbid we have to realize that it came from a living, breathing animal that isn’t too different from our pets. Like beyond the values we place on them, what is the difference between a pet (like a guinea pig) and smth like a cow? Why can we eat one but not the other, and why is it barbaric/primitive? Your comment reeks of racism and ethnocentrism

Anonymous 3w

And that’s so valid! Nobody’s telling you to do that? I wouldn’t either because I grew up in a culture that doesn’t do that, but that doesn’t mean I should view other cultures that do as lesser (barbaric/primitive in your words). God forbid other cultures have customs and norms different from you due to the history what was available in the region

Anonymous 3w

calling it ‘primitive and barbaric’ is extremely racist. your comments only reaffirm that you’re not an intelligent organism and i hope one day you can grow up and get rid of your bigotry

Anonymous 3w

slow your roll Christoper Columbus

Anonymous 3w

Nobody is saying you have to do the same. It’s really not complicated. But someone primitive wouldn’t understand that, I suppose.

Anonymous

#9 3w

pets is “wasteful” because everyone deals with things like that differently. again, friend should’ve rephrased it differently and possibly asked questions instead of responding in that way. but do not devalue other people’s choices because someone else devalued yours.

Anonymous

#9 3w

To add to this, we don’t just throw our pets into the dirt, we give them actual services. Additionally, the meat isn’t wasted in my opinion because instead of being consumed by humans it’s being consumed by nature, returning the animal to it’s original habitat. While I respect OP’s culture, they’re doing the same thing to Americans that their friend did to them: judge and insult another culture for their differences

Anonymous

#10 3w

this. someone disrespected you but that doesn’t mean you need to disrespect others because if that.