This is one of those very cultural bias taboo type topics.
This is one of those very cultural bias taboo type topics. I'd guess that just about anything that is even remotely edible has been ingested by some culture somewhere on Earth at some time.
As far as pets are concerned, some people keep pet tarantulas and some of the native peoples of the South American rain forests eat them. Some places crickets are pets, other places they are food. If my choice was eat a spider or a cricket or starve, I'd probably starve, my cultural bias is so deep.
In our own culture, horsemeat is still eaten some places and was historically one of the proteins available to poor people. People have kept bunnies, birds of all sorts, lambs, pigs, etc. as both pets and eaten them as food. So if dogs were raised as a food animal (not stealing someone's pet), how is that different?
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/22/533691351/chinas-doggy-debate-dog-meat-lovers-vs-dog-lovers
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/22/533691351/chinas-doggy-debate-dog-meat-lovers-vs-dog-lovers
As far as pets are concerned, some people keep pet tarantulas and some of the native peoples of the South American rain forests eat them. Some places crickets are pets, other places they are food. If my choice was eat a spider or a cricket or starve, I'd probably starve, my cultural bias is so deep.
In our own culture, horsemeat is still eaten some places and was historically one of the proteins available to poor people. People have kept bunnies, birds of all sorts, lambs, pigs, etc. as both pets and eaten them as food. So if dogs were raised as a food animal (not stealing someone's pet), how is that different?
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/22/533691351/chinas-doggy-debate-dog-meat-lovers-vs-dog-lovers
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/22/533691351/chinas-doggy-debate-dog-meat-lovers-vs-dog-lovers
I didn't realize that. That seems entirely unnecessary and wrong. That said, I've eaten lobster and I am bothered by the fact that they are cooked alive. But I've still eaten them. So I guess that makes me a hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteMy main objection to eating dog is that they're too damned smart (along multiple axes). But I too am a hypocrite, because I happily eat pig.
ReplyDelete(But not horse, or octopus, or whale/dolphin, or indeed dog.)
((Or cats, of course. Or elephants, not that that's even legal anywhere remotely civilized.))
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