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Originally Posted by Fast Forward
... or a cultural one. Anyway, I agree. One might just as well argue that "meat is meat" but "poultry" is something else.
In the end it's all about the "historical thing" you mentioned and it's the same thing with geography .... what divides Europe from middle-Asia and who's decision is (was) it to make that distinction?
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Yeah, I think in the end people "call it by another name" to justify or ritualize what they eat. It's basically using language to help make exceptions for actions.
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