Africa: Monkey Brains
(the Zaire and Zambia
source of other spongiform
encephalopathy diseases
such as Mad Cow, Mad
Pig, Mad Fish
 http://trifter.com/practical-travel/the-eight-most-cruel-and-controversial-world-delicacies/
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Canadian lobsters dropped alive into boiling water?  http://www.lobsterlib.com

German and French goose liver (pate de foie gras) made
by forcefeeding geese with tube plungers in their
throats?
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Japanese dishes of whale meat?
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Japanese loach (eel) The living eels are put into hot water. Then a block of cool soft tofu is put into the water. The eels swim into the cool tofu to survive. The tofu is taken from the water, and chopped up for human eaters.
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French ortolan... tiny songbirds.. not big enough for
a meatball... trapped and murdered
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Japan: Fish flopping around put on plate
 http://www.cracked.com/article_16951_the-6-most-sadistic-dishes-from-around-world.html
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Korea: Dogs beaten..
or skinned alive before
slaughter.. sadistic
humans wanting the
adrenalin of suffering
to soften the dog flesh
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KFC: Chickens dropped alive into scalding defeathering tanks
 http://www.kfccruelty.com

Is the consciousness of the animal a factor?

Is it
worse to eat a mammal than a bird? Is a bird dish worse
than that of a fish worse than that of a reptile worse
than that of an insect?

Is it worse to eat a pet species?

Is it rude to eat pig flesh in front of a Muslim?
cow flesh at a table with a Hindu?

Does an animal's right trump human appetite?
Is it worse to eat a baby animal (calf, lamb, e.g.)
than an adult? Is that age chauvinism?

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Topic B
China: Another link on
the mother bear who killed her cub and then herself to escape bile farm torture
 http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html