That whole thing falls apart when you find them out in the wild along with needing special particles for it to happen
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Is it ethically wrong to eat Pokemon?
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The Slowpoke tail thing has been handled really weirdly and inconsistently throughout the games. In Gen 2 it's considered this awful, cruel thing that only Team Rocket would do... but then when I recently revisited Pokemon X, there's a restaurant you can eat at, and one of the courses that they bring you is a Slowpoke tail! I guess maybe it could be read as a statement about how tastes and ethical standards for food are different around the world, but it struck me as probably just trying to be a cute reference to Gen 2 while totally missing the point of what Slowpoke tails meant in those games.
Bulbapedia also has a section on this.
Bulbapedia also has a section on this.
I think it's a cultural thing. Can you eat a cat or a dog? Sure. Is it culturally acceptable in America? No.
Since Pokemon are just the animals of the world I imagine there are some that people eat and some that people don't. And just like how people have pet cows and pigs and what not, some of those Pokemon that are socially acceptable to eat can be pets too.
Since Pokemon are just the animals of the world I imagine there are some that people eat and some that people don't. And just like how people have pet cows and pigs and what not, some of those Pokemon that are socially acceptable to eat can be pets too.
People eat Pokemon in the video game universe.
I think it's more that Team Rocket was doing it inhumanely and with Slowpokes that weren't theirs.
Pokemon Sun/Moon rectonned it so that Slowpokes are capable of autotomy. Their tails can break off naturally and by harvested.
Based on the levels of intelligence they seem to exhibit yes
But give me that Tauros meat, I need sustenance
But give me that Tauros meat, I need sustenance
Venusaur on the go. Sharper image is still considering it. George Foreman is still considering it.
Sears said no.
Aren't they genetically engineered, possibly not entirely organic? Created to replace all of the wildlife after an environmental apocalypse?
If you believe that eating animals in real life is ethically wrong, then the same logic would apply to Pokemon.
they have cloning technology and revive-fossils-from-the-dead technology. i wouldn't be surprised if they have some sort of ethical pokemon-based labgrown meat alternative. with that in mind... i don't think most people would eat a real pokemon unless they really had too... or they were some sort of pokemaniac
I think Pokémon in the Pokémon world get treated the same way as animals in real life. A side that has no issues of consuming them while others have varying degrees of tolerance
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There are definitely mentions to real life animals in the Pokémon world. We've even seen it in the anime on occasion.
Animals in the Pokémon world - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
I mean the whole premise is that it's just cockfighting, but with different animals. Eating them feels a lot less problematic.
Time to lose hours of my life browsing Bulbapedia again
Nope, Pokemon and Humans alike were made by God. And by God, I mean Arceus:
Pokedex Entries:
Diamond: "It is described in mythology as the Pokémon that shaped the universe with its 1,000 arms."
Pearl: "It is told in mythology that this Pokémon was born before the universe even existed."
It created Space (Palkia) and Time (Dialga), and also probably Satan (Giratina). Then it created Knowledge (Uxie), Emotion (Mesprit), and Willpower (Azelf).
Humans came long after all that.
Pokemon Mythology is wild.
I think Pokémon in the Pokémon world get treated the same way as animals in real life. A side that has no issues of consuming them while others have varying degrees of tolerance
There are definitely mentions to real life animals in the Pokémon world. We've even seen it in the anime on occasion.
Animals in the Pokémon world - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
Most of the clear examples of real life animals in the Pokemon world are from early in the franchise before they developed the setting more. The further you advance, the less references you have, aside from those legacy ones. Nowadays, the most you get are minor visual effects with butterflies, birds or bees.
That said, Pokemon are divided by categories and even today those are named after real animals, even for new Pokemon. I don't think it necessarily means there are real animals though. Pikachu and Marill can be known as Mouse Pokemon due to some of their shared traits even if there isn't a real world mouse in the Pokemon world.
Self preservation, Pokemon nature be metal.Chansey seems fine with it.
I know that they lay several a day and love giving them away.
If a Pokemon ever got the chance, they'd eat you and everyone you care about!
This is why they never should have introduced humanoid pokemon, besides the fact that they're super ugly.
I feel like this topic comes up multiple times every year. Its wrong if the lore says its wrong because its not our world and isn't very comparable. Most of them are depicted pretty much as having human expressions and emotions, if not intelligence especially in media outside the games so yeah that's fucked if you're arguing for that. Feels almost cannibalistic at that point.
introduced? they have always been a thing, as have aliens, inanimate objects, ghosts, deities etc
introduced? they have always been a thing, as have aliens, inanimate objects, ghosts, deities etc
Half of these fuckin' species are not only just dangerous wild animals that would eat you at the end of the day, but they're capable of stealing your soul, kidnapping children and shit.
Eat 'em. For the sake of humanity.
Even the legendaries.
Eat 'em. For the sake of humanity.
Even the legendaries.
