Delicious
04-05-2006, 08:48 AM
In my Psychology class on "Learning" we are discussing "Taste Aversions". I responded to the below quote as follows and will post when I hear the responses I get:
My classmate:
"2) Taste Aversion:
I was raised on a farm. When I was twelve years old, my mother made me go out and catch a duck for dinner. She made me slit its throat and dunk it in the hot boiling water before plucking its skin. I cried the whole time. That night we had duck soup. I protested and refused to eat the soup. My mother was very angry with me and made me tasted it. I gagged and vomited. After that, I refused to eat duck. My mother said, that after that event, she too stopped killing our ducks. Now we have too many on the farm. "
My response:
Thank you for sharing. I grew up in an area of National City that was zoned for farming and woke to the sound of pigs throats being slit on many a morning prior to Quinceneras, birthdays and weddings;there is no sound on earth like the screams they make and no sight like seeing them hung upside down, the blood dripping from thier throats as they struggle to keep breathing. It's so sad how people selfishly use and abuse animals.
I am interested in knowing if you had seen animals killed before or had participated in that act and if this event inspired you to become a vegetarian or just avoid consuming that particular animal. I also am curious as to what other changes-if any- your mother made besides avoiding killing and eating ducks.
I find that most people don't think about the fact that a living, breathing being is slaughtered to make the "burger" or "fillet" they so enjoy. I doubt as many people would eat animals if they had to murder them directly themselves.
It takes a special kind of denial, a disconnect and a form of cognitive dissonance occurs to "allow" most people to continue doing something they innately feel is wrong, gross or sad such as killing another living creature just to satisfy thier desire for the taste of flesh.
When it has been scientifically proven that humans do not need to eat animals in order to survive and thrive and when we live in a country such as the USA where we have an overabundance of healthy, affordable, ecologically sound and ethically superior choices available as food sources it really seems crazy to me that people continue to come from a place of cognitive dissonance and refuse to make rational, informed choices about such issues once they are made aware of the facts about the animal industry in realtion to health, ecology, ethics and even Spirituality.
This is an area of Psychology I am continually exploring and intend to keep at it as I find it both puzzling and fascinating
My classmate:
"2) Taste Aversion:
I was raised on a farm. When I was twelve years old, my mother made me go out and catch a duck for dinner. She made me slit its throat and dunk it in the hot boiling water before plucking its skin. I cried the whole time. That night we had duck soup. I protested and refused to eat the soup. My mother was very angry with me and made me tasted it. I gagged and vomited. After that, I refused to eat duck. My mother said, that after that event, she too stopped killing our ducks. Now we have too many on the farm. "
My response:
Thank you for sharing. I grew up in an area of National City that was zoned for farming and woke to the sound of pigs throats being slit on many a morning prior to Quinceneras, birthdays and weddings;there is no sound on earth like the screams they make and no sight like seeing them hung upside down, the blood dripping from thier throats as they struggle to keep breathing. It's so sad how people selfishly use and abuse animals.
I am interested in knowing if you had seen animals killed before or had participated in that act and if this event inspired you to become a vegetarian or just avoid consuming that particular animal. I also am curious as to what other changes-if any- your mother made besides avoiding killing and eating ducks.
I find that most people don't think about the fact that a living, breathing being is slaughtered to make the "burger" or "fillet" they so enjoy. I doubt as many people would eat animals if they had to murder them directly themselves.
It takes a special kind of denial, a disconnect and a form of cognitive dissonance occurs to "allow" most people to continue doing something they innately feel is wrong, gross or sad such as killing another living creature just to satisfy thier desire for the taste of flesh.
When it has been scientifically proven that humans do not need to eat animals in order to survive and thrive and when we live in a country such as the USA where we have an overabundance of healthy, affordable, ecologically sound and ethically superior choices available as food sources it really seems crazy to me that people continue to come from a place of cognitive dissonance and refuse to make rational, informed choices about such issues once they are made aware of the facts about the animal industry in realtion to health, ecology, ethics and even Spirituality.
This is an area of Psychology I am continually exploring and intend to keep at it as I find it both puzzling and fascinating