Beyond my own personal conundrum of why you would eat meat in the first place, why would anyone even consider eating giraffe? I still haven't figured out why people eat deer or moose or kangoroo or rattlesnake or ostrich or crocodile.
Maybe because they're tasty, and provide a different taste experience from the usual beef/pork/chicken?
I'm not entirely sure why someone would eat giraffe, as I've never tried it (seems like it would be a lot of work), and from your list I've only tried deer (if memory serves - venison is deer, right?). I have tried emu and alligator, though.
Yeah, I've heard tell, but I don't quite believe it. Even when I ate meat, I would never venture further than chicken, turkey, beef and pork. And even then, I only ever really liked chicken. It's not surprising that I became a vegetarian and eventually a vegan.
Venison is deer.
At my most adventurous, I've eaten (barely) rabbit (it really doesn't taste like chicken) and escargot. The family I lived with in France gave up on trying to get me to eat frog legs and other such things. I just don't have it in me to eat meat.
The rules governing Kashrut were first formulated in a semi-nomadic social setting at the edges of the deserts and so sometimes their specific wording means that you can bend them around in funny ways.
Like for example the way that some ultra Orthodox machmirs frown on broccoli because its too hard to search for insects... which are not alright to eat.
Then there are some Jews over towards India who will mix milk and meat, just not the specific milk from the same animal with the specific meat from that same type of animal. Their response apparently when asked why they did not follow what everyone else did in not mixing any milk and meat... Moses said not to cook the kid in its mother's milk, it is only the Talmudic scholars who say to not mix any milk and meat. So who is greater Moses or Talmud?
So, I bet it's the same for any animal of that clade. Meaning, all the bouncy tropical ungulates (antelopes) are OK. Hello ibex broth! Yummm, springbok steaks!
I'm sure you can continue this better than I could. :)
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Date: 2008-10-29 04:32 pm (UTC)*giggles*
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Date: 2008-10-29 04:40 pm (UTC):::boggles:::
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Date: 2008-10-29 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 06:33 pm (UTC)I'm not entirely sure why someone would eat giraffe, as I've never tried it (seems like it would be a lot of work), and from your list I've only tried deer (if memory serves - venison is deer, right?). I have tried emu and alligator, though.
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Date: 2008-10-29 11:12 pm (UTC)Venison is deer.
At my most adventurous, I've eaten (barely) rabbit (it really doesn't taste like chicken) and escargot. The family I lived with in France gave up on trying to get me to eat frog legs and other such things. I just don't have it in me to eat meat.
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:20 pm (UTC)Like for example the way that some ultra Orthodox machmirs frown on broccoli because its too hard to search for insects... which are not alright to eat.
Then there are some Jews over towards India who will mix milk and meat, just not the specific milk from the same animal with the specific meat from that same type of animal. Their response apparently when asked why they did not follow what everyone else did in not mixing any milk and meat... Moses said not to cook the kid in its mother's milk, it is only the Talmudic scholars who say to not mix any milk and meat. So who is greater Moses or Talmud?
Its all traditions, responsa and argumentation :)
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Date: 2008-11-01 02:48 am (UTC)So, I bet it's the same for any animal of that clade. Meaning, all the bouncy tropical ungulates (antelopes) are OK. Hello ibex broth! Yummm, springbok steaks!
I'm sure you can continue this better than I could. :)