This work first appeared on Sapiens under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here. “Do you eat guinea pig?” I asked Leonardo. We were perusing the menu in a restaurant in Lima, and I wanted to know what my Peruvian friend thought of the practice of eating cuy (the Spanish term for guinea pig used in parts of the Andes mountains). “The guinea pig is not a pig!” he replied, shaking his head in disgust. “It’s a rat! Would you eat a rat?” I took that as a…
