Chinese Man Eats New Born Mice and Mixes It With Sauce.

[Tarkatower]

kool.

 

[Mellow]

needs more Mice, less sauce

 

[Your Creepy Stalker]

Not specifically worse than eating anything else, but seriously, why would anyone want to eat that?

 

[kimb]

I am not playing. OMG.
I don't think if should be illegal because that is animal-est. You guys eat meat. But you should at least kill it, it's inhumane

Because killing animals for consumption is humane. The irony of meat eaters. lol

@poll, it should be illegal to eat meat imo.

 

[Sagebee]

Ewww he should ate it raw

 

[ArabianLuffy]

I've seen worst.

 

[Sasuke tyeezy]

The North-East Asians (the Northern Mongoloids) seem to be the most carnivorous sub-species of homo-sapiens. They also happen to be, contrary to popular imagination, the most cold-evolved and cold-adapted sub-species of man - they are, in fact, much more cold-adapted than Europeans.

I have a pet theory that their ancestors underwent evolutionary selection pressure for a significantly increased sense of taste for meat - in arctic conditions there are few edible plants but animals/fish are usually around - and that this is the reason why they are able to have all sorts of strange animals and aquatic life in their diet.

Taste preferences have already been shown to be highly genetically influenced. No amount of cultural conditioning is going to make you develop a taste for insects and dog meat. And most people outside of East Asia are unable to consume those things without vomiting or a negative reaction. Therefore genetic factors are likely to be involved.

This is an interesting issue that the field of genomics will be able to shed light on in the near future.

Actually I think cultural conditioning can do the trick if it starts from an extremely young age.

 

[Sasuke tyeezy]

Because killing animals for consumption is humane. The irony of meat eaters. lol

@poll, it should be illegal to eat meat imo.

Meat was part of our ancestral diet.

 

[Narushima]

I think culture has an enormous impact though.

Just like in London (esp. South London), jellied eels are, or at least used to be very popular and loved. Go even a few miles out and most people would gag at the prospect. I know I wouldn't touch them within an inch of my life.

Actually I think cultural conditioning can do the trick if it starts from an extremely young age.

Even the most rudimentary biological processes inside single cells are influenced by environmental factors - that doesn't mean those cellular processes are not encoded in your genes.

There is overwhelming evidence spanning decades of research from many different types of methodological approaches that demonstrate most behavioural traits e.g. introversion/extroversion, let alone something as basically biological as taste preferences, have strong genetic underpinnings.

There include twin studies where you look at identical twins (these guys share 100% of their DNA) and compare them to fraternal twins (they share 50% of their DNA, on average). It turns out that the identical twins are much more similar on virtually everything you can measure. You can also track down rare identical twins that were separated at birth and raised apart and guess what? Despite having a completely different upbringing, those identical twins grow up to have virtually identical favourite foods and identical disliked foods.

Adoption studies look at individuals adopted as infants and raised in adopted homes and compares them to both their adoptive parents and their biological parents (whom they often don't even interact with), and guess what? People are more similar to their biological parents in their food preferences than they are to the adoptive parents that cooked for them all their childhood and teenaged life.

These days we do studies that examine the genome. In GCTA studies you can take a population of completely unrelated individuals, for example the people that posted in this thread, and then examine how genetically similar we are before looking at how phenotypically similar we are. And guess what? The people in this thread who are more genetically similar will, on a statistical average, have closer taste preferences.

None of this means that culture is completely irrelevant. Think of the genetic aspect of a trait as a rubber band. The environment and culture can ONLY stretch that rubber band - it cannot magically change its type etc.

Yes, cultural conditioning can change our food preferences - but some people are genetically more prone to tolerating meat than others. And the idea that different populations that evolved in completely different climates with completely different diets will have identical genetically based food preferences is about as likely as the idea that peoples in different climates will evolve identical skin colour.

 

[king madara]

They even eat cats and dogs in china.

 

[Don Drama]

..they is in China, they will eat anything that moves on land except cars, anything that flies except airplanes and anything on / in water except boats.