Throughout watching the Pokemon television series when I was younger and sometimes today when I have nothing better to do, I am constantly reminded of things that bother me about the world in Pokemon. While I know that suspension of belief is required to watch those shows, I think this is beside the point. Even though there are creatures with powers, this is meant to be a separate world and as such, a different set of rules than compared to our world can exist. So, when I see a main character eating a hamburger, it makes me think. What the hell did they kill for their meal? Especially in the first generation when the amount of Pokemon was limited, did they slaughter a Tauros?
That, and other meat Pokemon come to mind - Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot, etc. (basically all the birds, snakes, rats, cats, etc. I don't know, this is a pretty !@#$% up show, I would bet they would eat anything). There is also the crustaceans and the mushrooms.
But they this brings to mind more disturbing questions. Would the purely grass Pokemon be considered vegetables? Would it be acceptable to gut a Bellsprout for sustenance? In today's era of the possibility of cloned foods, if Ditto in this world transformed into one of the aforementioned Pokemon, would it be edible.
But the even more disturbing question is - are there lesser creatures than Pokemon in the world of Pokemon? Why are humans the only creatures that are carnivorous in the series?
I am so disturbed by all of this.
