Rats, city pigeons, and tabby cats, on the other hand, are wholesome enough. One student struggles to verbalize her aversion. It's the whole psychological aspect. It's just, like, you encounter city pigeons, and you encounter rats. You have a whole perspective on them.
Rats are nasty .
I'm sure if you go somewhere else where there were, like, Eskimos or something, and you gave them city pigeons, they would eat it. Our society tends to see rats as dangerous and diseased, and therefore inedible, adds another student. And with cats, we've been taught it's not humane to eat domesticated animals. There are values we attach to this, he agrees. I could name half a dozen societies where dogs are routinely raised as food.