I can certainly understand Italy, Greece and China being in the top... I don't really do sushi, so I don't get Japan being in no 2 (but i can understand the artistic aspect to it though).
Croatis, Serbia and Hungry are all in the same place for good reason, they all do nice roasted meat. Scotland and Australia at the bottom is lol... Scots have Haggis, aussies have roasted kangaroo I guess. 🤣
#food #lol
Thailand has really nice food....
Very strong food as well! 🥣😭
I like spicy 🔥😋 not too much but mild
And btw, Japan cuisine is not just about Sushi or sashimim..sushi is what usually the restaurants in occident serve. They have many other dishes that we are not familiar with.
https://www.japancentre.com/en/page/156-30-must-try-japanese-foods
The idea that it's just fine and dandy to kill a sentient, feeling, conscious being because you "like the taste" is repugnant to me.
Does this notion extend to the killing of animals by other animals as well?
What is repugnant to me is, as far as I can tell, not binding on a spider, tick, or scorpion. Nature, as the poet noted, is often "red in tooth and claw," but we need not be so, at least not gratuitously (as in "I like the taste"), and at least not to innocents.
I'll say as much that I wholly agree that unjustified or unnecessarily killing / taking life is bad, or in your word, repugnant. What justifies or necessitates killing is a matter for another day; it's a surprisingly nuanced topic.
Yes, nuanced -- i believe that that is the right way to look at it. I suspect that unnecessary routine or industrialized killing inures us, not only to the drama and seriousness of ending a life, making us more likely to become brutal and ignoble in general, but also blurs our vision of the act to the point where we can't see when it really is justified or necessary.
To give one little example: I love Nature, and go out of way not to kill any animal, including insects. I hate poisons, and do not use them in my home. But if a swarm of bees were attacking my child I would kill them all -- and my conscience would still rest easy, and my kindness to all animals would continue unchanged.
And, further: If, say, some kind of alien creature arrived here that could mate with us and produce fertile offspring, and there was a real danger that such matings would result in our permanent replacement or hybridization, and the disappearance of our kind, then I -- who hates nearly all killing, far more than the average person -- would say that a time for extreme nuance had arrived.
