tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748060798655400108.post4624259515603156994..comments2023-11-02T08:55:35.510-07:00Comments on Market Design: Could/should eating rabbits become repugnant?Al Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02232854038397912604noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748060798655400108.post-68403042879662846362014-09-04T09:44:48.101-07:002014-09-04T09:44:48.101-07:00I don't know whether anyone cares, but horses,...I don't know whether anyone cares, but horses, kittens, and puppies are more closely related to cows, pigs, sheep, and goats than to us, while rabbits (and rats) are more closely related to us than to the former. (Once you get to primates per se, some of the repugnance at least seems to be phrased in terms of closeness of relationship to humans, but I don't know that it's likely to change minds on the food/nonfood divide farther away than that.)dWjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072494989829344049noreply@blogger.com