On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:12:12 +1000, Christian Gerzner wrote: >Viv wrote: >(snips) >> On a stop-over in Taiwan where a couple of my doc friends were >> attending a cleft, lip & palate conference I came across something >> I hope to never, ever see again. I became violently ill after >> accidentally cutting through what I thought was a shopping mall. >> It was actually Snake Alley .. where they slit the snakes live and >> you drank the blood, they threaded live baby turtles on to skewers >> and barbeque them live, etc, etc. > >Without trying to hand out lessons, it's a matter, Viv, of what you're >used to. For example Christians (no, not me for a change) think >nothing of eating pork yet Jews and Muslims would recoil in horror. You missed the point of why I puked Christian - that the animals were still ALIVE. That is what made me ill. Re: eating pork - normally it's long dead by the time someone carves it up ... the snakes I saw being drained of their blood were still alive and twirling around in agony on the meat hooks. Viv