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Canada11510 Posts
On April 15 2012 08:54 Rice wrote:
someone needs to make a graph with animal cuteness to human care as a ratio
Oh that's easy. Just tally how often Green Peace or PETA use each animal for there ads. Whatever you may think of their goals and methods, they know what they are doing in their ads.
On April 15 2012 09:00 Rice wrote:
could someone describe what dog meat is like to us who arent familiar with it?
Hard to describe as I only had it once and I imagine it would taste different depending on how it was prepared. Mine was in a sort of stew/ soup. It definitely did NOT taste like chicken. Kinda sweet I guess? It's hard to describe tastes.
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I'm not picky, I've tasted all sorts of meat. I don't see anything ethical wrong with eating dog, it seems a bit odd if it's a pet, but as a source of meat it seems legit. Honestly, people should slow down on the their meatconsumption altogether though.
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I have no problems with people consuming dog meat. Just don't eat your own pets. I know some people raise dogs (not farm, raise) and eat them. That's a little cruel in my opinion.
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How are they any different than any other animal? Are they inherently better? Leads me to question if humans are just animals or if we are any better, if so eating other humans would be perfectly fine too. idk and I don't have to becauseit really doesn't affect me at all.
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I have no problems with people eating dog meat,I just don't understand why you would do such a thing when there is stuff like roasted pork around,unless your starving and have no other option.
I just don't believe that a dog tastes better than cow/pork/etc.
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I ate dog meat myself and it tasted good. Very soft meat. The only thing I dont like is how most of "dog farms" have really bad conditions. I always had the question: Do you need to treat animals good/right if you want to kill them? Like the animal should live their life comfortable to get killed?
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On April 15 2012 08:38 babylon wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 08:29 yeaR wrote:
I don't mind people eating it, I just don't like the way it's being bred.. etc.. Look up the details of egg-farming (from chickens in particular, though I'm sure the conditions are just as bad for ducks, quails, etc.). The treatment's inhumane. I would say that most animals that provide food for us are treated poorly.  Anyways, lots of people keep fish and birds but have no issue eating salmon/tuna/etc. or chicken/quail/duck/etc., so it's kind of funny that some claim that eating dogs is barbaric or w/e just because they own a dog. I'm kind of ambivalent to it myself, but I wouldn't be horrified by the prospect of eating dogmeat. I'd take it over escargot any day of the week ...
and then theres veal
there stuck in a cage where they literally have no room to move and fed until there jsut the right age then killed
and theres foie gras (gah i know i butchered the spelling) where they put a duck in a box essentially and forcefeed it until its liver is like 90% fat
but dam does it taste good, im pretty sure theres a positive correlation between the inhuman rearing of an animal and how good it tastes
nah but msot meat taste best when its owner got to run around and be more natural
aside from Veal
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Personally ca't get myself to do it. Just thinking of how the dogs are killed disgusts me. But theres nothing wrong with it of course..
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reading this made me feel sick, sorry if that is offensive to anyone.
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Nothing wrong with it and animal used for meat is not a problem at all i don't think . I would eat dog or cat it wouldn't bug me but the dogs they are using aren't Fido its food where they use dog meat can't be picky.
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On April 15 2012 09:00 Sky101 wrote:
I have no problems with people consuming dog meat. Just don't eat your own pets. I know some people raise dogs (not farm, raise) and eat them. That's a little cruel in my opinion.
The opposite is true. If an animal is treated decently before it gets slaughtered I am fine with it. If it is tortured in the process, that is not ok.
And mass farming of dogs will often amount to torture. Same with some other animal species that are simply not suited for that.
Some here are thinking way too simple when they assume it is only about "cuteness" that dogs are generally not farmed. Bunnies are cuter than dogs yet farmed without hesitation.
Another aspect is the ecological one. To eat dogs you have to feed them meat first, which you have to gather from other animals. The process is overall much more wasteful than eating animals that feed on plants instead of other animals.
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no i wouldnt eat a dog, and i would judge people who do so negatively so sorry if you're offended but i was raised not to bite into snoopy
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Blazinghand
United States25559 Posts
Given that I eat pigs, which are substantially smarter than dogs, I think the dog meat is not unethical. However, I find dogs to be cute and likeable companions, and would be uncomfortable eating dog-- I have never eaten dog and unless there are some drastic changes in my life I don't plan on it.
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On April 15 2012 08:27 NtsenG wrote:
so you think its any more or less ok to eat cows or pigs just because they are less cute? lol
No. It isn't necessarily because dogs are "cute", but more to the fact that humans have kept them as pets for thousands of years for their obedience and loyalty. Cattle and live stock have always been a food source and not pets. I do have a biased viewpoint being that my mother is a veterinarian and I work in an animal hospital myself, but our society accepts cats and dogs as companions and not food. Thankfully, our world is changing and people are stopping these old traditions.
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Mentioned in half the posts already... But why should dog meat be any different from other normal animals as chicken, pigs, cows or even horses?
I've never tried it. But if one day I had the option of tasting it, I'd most likely try.
I'm curious why people say no, though? Dog owners or some ethics around the dog they see in another way than myself?
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On April 15 2012 09:11 askTeivospy wrote:
no i wouldnt eat a dog, and i would judge people who do so negatively so sorry if you're offended but i was raised not to bite into snoopy
The dogs they use are not snoopy. They are not usually domesticated ( usually) people and dogs have had this relationship for as long as humans can remember food , pet , protection and companion. Humans and dogs are intertwined humans feed the animals sometimes they feed us.
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On April 15 2012 09:11 Redox wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 09:00 Sky101 wrote:
I have no problems with people consuming dog meat. Just don't eat your own pets. I know some people raise dogs (not farm, raise) and eat them. That's a little cruel in my opinion. The opposite is true. If an animal is treated decently before it gets slaughtered I am fine with it. If it is tortured in the process, that is not ok. And mass farming of dogs will often amount to torture. Same with some other animal species that are simply not suited for that. Some here are thinking way too simple when they assume it is only about "cuteness" that dogs are generally not farmed. Bunnies are cuter than dogs yet farmed without hesitation. Another aspect is the ecological one. To eat dogs you have to feed them meat first, which you have to gather from other animals. The process is overall much more wasteful than eating animals that feed on plants instead of other animals.
dogs are generally fed with meat from cows that are past the age of sexual maturity, generally these cows arent fit for human consuption since there so old so there fed to dogs instead so basically the dogs are jsut eating what humans throw out anyway
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On April 15 2012 09:13 Ercster wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 08:27 NtsenG wrote:
so you think its any more or less ok to eat cows or pigs just because they are less cute? lol No. It isn't necessarily because dogs are "cute", but more to the fact that humans have kept them as pets for thousands of years for their obedience and loyalty. Cattle and live stock have always been a food source and not pets. I do have a biased viewpoint being that my mother is a veterinarian and I work in an animal hospital myself, but our society accepts cats and dogs as companions and not food. Thankfully, our world is changing and people are stopping these old traditions.
So... because ancient traditions says cattle are for making milk and food... And the dogs are for companionship aswell as help with the livestock. We still see cows as meat/milk only - and dogs as what... companions? What happened to the whole idea of them actually helping out with getting the job done? Oh, right... The world changed... Well, so did the modern perception of the role of animals.
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Humans are at the top of the food chain, and everything else that's edible is for consumption. Killing animals "humanely" is entirely irrelevant, as they aren't human to begin with. Animals kill each other in the wild every day in manners much more barbaric than the average slaughterhouse. It's just the culture brought up through thousands of years that dictates it's fine to eat something and not the other and there's nothing wrong with that.
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