We are animals.
No matter what trapping we give ourselves, no matter how many gold baubles or techie gadgets or surgeries we perform. No matter how fast we go, how high, no matter what we do, we are animals. And sometimes it is delightful.
I mean that in the same sort of way as if you were watching a dog, growl at the TV because the doorbell rang on a show or how you laugh as a cat chases a laser pointer. Its cute because it is kind of something the animal can't control. It is just... part of them. We are animals. Moreover we are animals driven by our love of food. People go gaga over vittles of all sorts. It's fun to see because we all like to eat and given the chance there are a lot of us that would try just about anything put in front of us provided it was edible.
From Wikipedia:
US Navy captain David Porter declared that, "after once tasting the Galapagos tortoises, every other animal food fell off greatly in our estimation ... The meat of this animal is the easiest of digestion, and a quantity of it, exceeding that of any other food, can be eaten without experiencing the slightest of inconvenience."
This is not an uncommon thing. It seems like history is littered with "oh, such a magnificent creature. Who's hungry? *nomnomnom*" In the past few years I've read about how new and exciting species of animals are found... in the meat markets.
From the WWF:
WWF released the report on World Environment Day, highlighting creatures both bizarre and beautiful. Among the 15 species highlighted is a new species of flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus laoensis), discovered based on a single animal collected from a bush meat market in Laos. With its distinctive red and white fur, the Laotian giant flying squirrel is also the first record of the genus from Southeast Asia.
We love to eat and God help anything that gets in our way.
We are Galactus....
No matter what trapping we give ourselves, no matter how many gold baubles or techie gadgets or surgeries we perform. No matter how fast we go, how high, no matter what we do, we are animals. And sometimes it is delightful.
I mean that in the same sort of way as if you were watching a dog, growl at the TV because the doorbell rang on a show or how you laugh as a cat chases a laser pointer. Its cute because it is kind of something the animal can't control. It is just... part of them. We are animals. Moreover we are animals driven by our love of food. People go gaga over vittles of all sorts. It's fun to see because we all like to eat and given the chance there are a lot of us that would try just about anything put in front of us provided it was edible.
From Wikipedia:
US Navy captain David Porter declared that, "after once tasting the Galapagos tortoises, every other animal food fell off greatly in our estimation ... The meat of this animal is the easiest of digestion, and a quantity of it, exceeding that of any other food, can be eaten without experiencing the slightest of inconvenience."
This is not an uncommon thing. It seems like history is littered with "oh, such a magnificent creature. Who's hungry? *nomnomnom*" In the past few years I've read about how new and exciting species of animals are found... in the meat markets.
From the WWF:
WWF released the report on World Environment Day, highlighting creatures both bizarre and beautiful. Among the 15 species highlighted is a new species of flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus laoensis), discovered based on a single animal collected from a bush meat market in Laos. With its distinctive red and white fur, the Laotian giant flying squirrel is also the first record of the genus from Southeast Asia.
We love to eat and God help anything that gets in our way.
We are Galactus....
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