Today, I have learned that reindeer is a basic meat in Alaska through the VOA Special English program. At first, I could not understand this part in it, "children might want to cover their ears for this part", but later I found out it.
"Why do children want to cover reindeer's ears?", first I thought. After considering it, I got to an idea that means "子供たちは、この部分については、耳を覆いたくなるかもしれない。＝子供たちは、このことは聞きたくないかも知れないが".
There are similar stories in the world. Those include that some people in Japan eat a meat of dolphin and some Korean eat dog's meat. And I have heard that people in Britain usually eat a meat of rabbit. They look very similar things to me, but there are many critics against eating dolphin and dog. I do not know why those differences happen on those issues.
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I've never quite understood people's dislike of eating cat and dog meat as compared to other animals' meat. I'm assuming that it is because humans are just closer to these animals.
I did find a Wikipedia article on the subject, though, if you're interested. (There's a Japanese one too.) I don't have time to look at it in detail right now, but religious factors play a role too, it seems.
Jon-san
Thank you for good information. I have not read the article completely because of large amount of words. But, I have learned that some European eat dog through it. Thank you.
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