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Alexander Theroux

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

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When you give a pet a name, you form a personal bond that makes it impossible to treat the animal as food. This connection is compared to a ventriloquist eating his dummy, which would be unnatural and disturbing because the dummy is an extension of the ventriloquist’s identity.

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