Finnish broadcaster Katja Ståhl has offered a take most people would rather not hear: she could imagine eating her own pet. In a podcast episode she says she does not understand why a dead pet should be off limits when other animals end up on the plate without a second thought. Her reasoning comes down to the blunt question in the title: why not? The animal is dead, she argues, and the squeamishness around eating it says more about human taboos than about the act itself. The conversation pulls at the uncomfortable line food culture draws between animals we grieve and animals we eat. Whether listeners laugh or squirm, Ståhl appears entirely at ease holding her unusual position.