Taboo Food or Not  

Posted by Ezequiel Leversee

When it comes to this topic, I suddenly recall that one of my colleagues had once told me there got some people like eating taboo food such like squirrel, rat and etc. 0_0 Another colleague who is from Sabah admitted he did and he ate those animals for real. He said he is used to eat those because it is the common traditional in his hometown. People in his hometown would capture whatever they've spotted any animal in forest and bring them back to home and eat..

Have you heard or read about taboo food before? What do you know about taboo food? Why such taboo food exist in this world? What kind of animal or insect we can eat or cannot eat? Are taboo food really safe and clean to be eaten? What are the advantages or disadvantages of eating them? We really exactly don't know about them so much. However, one thing we only know is taboo food is against certain religion for sure.

As you know, the muslims are not allowed to eat pork as the chinese do eat. Indians and chinese are originally not allowed to eat beef but nowadays beef has become common food to them. As I know the reason why the chinese are not allowed to eat beef, in old times where old people feel its wrong to eat cow that was really so useful in agriculture. While the Indians serves cow as their own sacred god, they consider killing or slaughtering a cow as a grave sin. Mostly in western country, they who are not really religious would hunt and eat anything and anything they want or like.

Alright, have you seen people eating rattlesnake, crocodiles or some insects? Didn't you find it is so really gross or disgusting to eat or see people eating such like? However to those who eat those, they consider those as healthy food or preferably a medicine to their "personal" desire. Some would say it's great for those who has a low sex drive and call it as the best aphrodisiac. Some say a result of health considerations or other practical considerations. Some say a result of human symbolic systems.. I don't know it's really true and am kinda scared wanna eat those hehe..

In China and Bangkok, there are a lot of stalls selling insects everywhere on the street. Commonly eaten insects and arachnids include grasshoppers, crickets, termites, ants, beetle larvae (grubs), moth caterpillars and pupae, spiders, tarantulas, and scorpions. Fried insect… Lollipops with insects… The reason is protein production for human consumption would be more effective and consume fewer resources than animal protein. This makes insect meat more ecological than vertebrate meat.

Old times in Africa, there were some tribe doing cannibalism which they have to kill human and eat its human flesh… It were not their own wish but the Englishmen who came to their place to make drugs and disturbed their peace by enslaving the African males to help making drugs while raping and killing African women for their own pleasure. It caused the anger and hatred among the African tribe. Of course it do sounds scary but whose is at its fault? They are just humans like us, got feeling and emotion.

In this world, there still a lot of mysteries being unfolded and need to be discovered hehehe…

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3 comments

I think that it just become their family's traditional foods. I heard that chinese people in China can eat anything like snakes, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, and others because they believe it is health foods for their body.

I am chinese but never want to eat dogs! Cus I have my pet, dog~! My dog, Nikki treated as my part of family. Nikki also give love and comfortable for my family! Why people wan eat dogs? T_T it is wrong to kill the animals who alive..

Haha... yuppie..that cruel wan... I got read one website where they show the pic Chinese people getting monkey drunken then open its skull and eat brain directly.. The brain still alive but they still enjoy eating... >_<

Anonymous  

its so unique that we have our own 'kind of foods' to eat.its up to the tradition,religion etc.
neway,enjoy ur foods and apreciate it coz not everyone has foods to eats like some part of africa and other poor country.

ps:.great article.hope u do more n more.tq