Explain the cultural universal of food taboos with examples.
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Answers will vary. There are many cultural universals, but specific behaviors vary across cultures, from one group to another in the same society, and over time. For example, all societies have food taboos, but they differ across societies. About 75 percent of the world's people eat insects. In Thailand, locusts, crickets, silkworms, grasshoppers, ants, and other insects are a big part of the diet (Stolley and Taphaneeyapan, 2002). Vietnamese restaurants offer cat on the menu, and many poor people in rural China eat dog meat because they can't afford poultry, pork, and beef. Increasingly, however,asurban, middle-class Chinese households "have learned to love dogs at the end of a leash rather than on a skewer" ("Dog-lovers . . .," 2015:46; see also Wan, 2011).
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