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Dr.Walt Fair, PE wrote: In Venezuela, iguanas were running all over. I was invited for some iguana stew and it was terrific, but I don't know if that counts as a pet.
I'm so glad you provided a reasonable answer. This web forum has members that span the world. I'm pretty sure that eating a pet is illegal in the U.S., at least at the federal level AFAIK, but honestly... What constitutes a "pet" versus an animal raised for the purpose of consumption as sustenance?
I once ate alligator nuggets back when I lived in Phoenix. You know what? They tasted like chicken. If there is at least one human being who owns an alligator as a pet, then I must confess. I've actually eaten an animal that people keep as pets. 
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Steve Raw wrote: then I must confess. I've actually eaten an animal that people keep as pets.
I just realized I once ate rabbit while living in the UK. My niece owns a pet rabbit... 
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Reminds of scene from "Local Hero"
Reaction to eating a rabbit.
"It was a pet, not an animal.
It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!"
Great movie. Music score is Mark Knopfler (sp?) inspired.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Great movie.
Up to that point I thought "Local Hero" was a restaurant, and you were describing someone's reaction to someone else's ordering that off the menu. 
In my defense, there are a few bar & grill type of restaurants in my area called Local Heroes. I don't think they serve rabbit however.
I've always said, the cuter the animal, the tastier it is.
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General Melchett: Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?
Lieutenant George: Flossie.
General Melchett: That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?
Lieutenant George: You shot him.
General Melchett: That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car.
Lieutenant George: By *your* car, sir.
General Melchett: Yes, by my car. But that, too, was an act of mercy when you remember that that dog had been set on him.
Lieutenant George: *Your* dog, sir.
General Melchett: Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre, is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now: if not very nearly dead, then very actually dead!
Lieutenant George: Permission for lip to wobble, sir?
General Melchett: Permission granted.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Steve Raw wrote: I'm pretty sure that eating a pet is illegal in the U.S., at least at the federal level
Actually I doubted that. I could see at the state level though. Apparently it is though. But only since 2018. Only applies to cats and dogs.
Apparently legal to eat your own horse in most states. Rabbits, chickens definitely. I presume other birds also.
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You've never had a farmer as a friend?
Decades ago, friends of ours invited us over for dinner. He farmed peanuts, wheat, huge vegetable garden and he was really working on breed stock for beef. At the time, he had one tied up near the house. So, about a month later, we had been invited again for dinner and while grilling I asked where the cow was... he smiled at me and lifted one of the steaks off the grill.... "don't tell the kids..."
If you can grill it, you can eat it. It's all perspective. There was a book written years ago "Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman" that will give you a real clear perspective on the insanity rampant in Soviet Russia. He survived by eating rats. Most people were grossed out in the gulag (and died). Toward the end of the book, he mentioned that to this day, if he sees a rat, his mouth waters.
Would I eat my neighbor's pet? Not willing? Would I eat a rabbit, cat or dog if I was starving or my family? Absolutely.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: You've never had a farmer as a friend?
My grandfather was a farmer. Some of his brothers were too.
I've always found farmers were the most down to earth people (quite literally) you'll ever meet.
They also eat well.
I remember one of my uncles saying he worked on my grandfather's brother's farm as a kid. Dirt poor, but his table was always full, and the rule was - help yourself to anything you want, as much as you want, but you have to empty your plate.
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points.
I think Disney's Bambi was the beginning of the end of reality. Meats meat.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Years ago when the kids were little and we lived in the country on a lifestyle block, the kids had pet lambs for training for school agriculture events.
They didn’t end up in the deep freeze but we had to find homes for them to live out their days living on green fresh grass.
So the theory went! Probably ended up in someone’s else’s freezer.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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my mother in law to this day will not eat lamb..
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Because it hasn't come to that - yet.
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I hear the Pete' is pretty good, but haven't tried it myself.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My brother-in-law held back his children's demands for a pet rabbit for years, by stating, 'OK, as long as you will let me prepare it for the meal'.
A few years later, they did have a pet rabbit, and I never heard anything about him planning to prepare it. I guess that the kids had grown old enough to take the full responsibility for the pet.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Never.
- Most animals kept by my neighbours are not kosher.
- Meat from the butcher is much less hassle.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What is a pet in a land is a typical dish in another one. So... yes.
Not the one of the neighbour, but the same animal that the neighbour had as a pet.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The next question is about Neighbor's children?
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Technically, no. However, I have eaten chicken, pork, and beef that came from animals that I knew, most notably a Yorkshire pig that I raised for a school project...his name was Wilbur...yes, I cried like a baby when we shipped him to the slaughterhouse...and yes, I did enjoy the bacon! 
The others were animals (all but the chickens had names) that came and went on my grandparents 100-acre farm where I used to spend my summers. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Damn this KSS rule. I had a few hot neighbors... complete the sentence.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Yeah, I have... Wait, you said "pet", nevermind 
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I was 10 years old and lived next to a farmer.
At 10 I never wondered where the food we ate came from.
One day the farmer said he was going to butcher some chickens for dinner.
Did I want to help SURE When the Ax dropped one of the candidates got loose.
I was horrified but now I knew where the food we ate came from
And How It Got To The Grocery Store
One of my stepchildren at 10 wanted to be vegetarian.
I totally got it.
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Linux From Scratch!
So, I'm making an app (huge shock), and this app will be the only thing hosted on a dedicated VPS when all is said and done. It doesn't need much umph right now during development, so I'm putting it on a cheapo VPS with one VCPU for now. Ok cool, but that's essentially one core with no guarantee it'll be hyper-threaded. I mean, lscpu reports more than one, but it's a cheapo VPS I've had lying around for years that I never used. So, there's gotta be throttling.
These days, every dependency is built with multithreaded support by default, say if you use system packages from Debian or Ubuntu. And that makes sense, BUT... If your machine is only rocking one core, multithreading is actually slower. So, it would behoove me to rebuild the dependencies like libcurl to only use a single thread. Or, just get a beefier VPS for this app, but I got this VPS for another year, so may as well use it for testing.
Dunno if anyone has ever built libcurl from scratch but it's a long, painful process if you want proper support with protocols and whatnot. However, dun dun dun...
The folks at LFS (Linux From Scratch) pretty much give you step-by-step instructions on building curl... which in turn means building libcurl. And it's kept up to date every six months. These folks are awesome and this and Gentoo are the only distros of their kind.
Note: Ok, realistically I'll just pay more for a better VPS when this thing is ready to go live and the performance delta during testing is acceptable. Which means its back to multithreading any way I slice it. But... but but but... there's still the cool factor of building your own deps for static linking. Never forget the cool factor.
Jeremy Falcon
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Gave up on Linux awhile back.
This has renewed my interest.
Thanks.
BYW, somewhere in my pile of distros over the years,
I have one the first Linux mass distros.
Now I am inspired to find it.
On CD, floppy?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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