Unclean Animals - Cultural Animal Taboos

Cultural Animal Taboos

In many societies there are strong cultural (but non-religious) taboos about eating or having contact with certain animals. For example, in most Western countries there is a strong cultural taboo against eating dog, cat, or monkey meat.

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