They just slaughtered an entire industry (and part of their cuisine), no doubt the farmers'll be hounding for weeks.
You're barking up the wrong tree with these puns.
As long as the farms are raising the animals properly, why would it be such a big deal to eat dog meat? If this was done on the grounds of “dogs are pets, not food” then that’s kind of dumb
This is fucking stupid. What about all the other animals? A dog is worth just as much as that cow I ate for dinner. Just because you have a soft spot for cats or dogs doesn't mean other people can't eat them.
The only question is whether they engage in the Chinese practice where they are tortured for extended periods under the belief that it makes them taste better (though of course they deny this still occurs). https://www.animalsasia.org/us/media/news/news-archive/chinas-yulin-dog-meat-festival-what-we-know.html
If it's just being raised for meat, it's whatever as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't eat it myself, but see nothing wrong with an industry based on it. No more than any other meat industry at least.
why are so many traditional practices involve being shit to animals for benefits.
where's a tradition of, idk, humanely raising the animals so they taste better?
Because no other animals would emotionally care for you as dogs would do. You wouldn't kill your best friend, so why would you kill another animal that cares for you just as much?
Classic post of ignorance.
the mongolians/khans
An unfortunate reality in places like China is people kidnapping pet dogs from people to slaughter which is honestly horrific. It's made even worse considering the practice of torturing them due to the critically retarded belief that it makes the meat tastier, nobody should have to worry about people breaking into their home to kidnap, torture, and butcher their pet for profit.
While it's not exactly a bulletproof argument I also feel like it's kinda a dick move to eat animals that could have been critical in getting humans to where they are. I'm not enough of a historian to say how much it affected human history but dogs have been defending/hunting with humans and cats have been providing pest control on farms since before the wheel was invented, I feel like that should probably count for something in the decision for whether you should slaughter them for food when it's not necessary or even efficient.
You have to take into consideration the cultural cross. In general though, the domestication of animals have been INCREDIBLY potent in human history and the ability for humans to survive and prosper. How they use said tamed/domesticated animals across each geographical/cultural location depends on a variety of factors. For example - The Chinese did not domesticate many dairy animals and often did as we see now (eat dogs) whilst the Mongolians whom lived primarily off the land have a heavy lactose/dairy diet. They domesticated horses and treated them as equals, while the Chinese did not unless they were owned by the gentry. (Even then it was not much of a thing till the Manchus)
The only reason that the first one is an issue is because dogs are a popular pet. If cattle or chickens were popular pets, you'd probably see the same issues.
Cattle have been used for farming, plowing, and other tasks for a long time, yet we happily eat them en-masse. A lot of the meat we eat isn't isn't necessary for survival, but we still eat it. While I can agree with that point,that metric has to be applied to nearly every other animal, or it would be unfair.
Those are a good size for my oven.
At the first half: yeah, that's true, but they're not so it's kind of a moot point? At the second half: it's pretty much just plowing, isn't it? Plowing is part of farming, and the whole point of what you were replying to is that dogs/cats were helpful for reasons other than us raising them for slaughter. I will concede that plowing is definitely something that cows do but it's not something they willingly did for mutual benefit, it's just something we used them for (same as milking). I did concede in my original post that this isn't exactly a bulletproof logical reasoning, but it is technically something that sets cats and dogs apart from most animals.
My point was there's always going to be a worry as long as people are scum enough to do it.
Cows do it for the same reason dogs and cats do stuff for us. Food and love. Cows actually operated a number of other mechanical objects such as mills and presses, where streams are sparse, but were gradually phased out once the industrial revolution really kickstarted things. Not to mention milk. I did also agree with the point, but other animals have been as useful to us to the extent of dogs and cats as well, yet we still eat them.
Indeed they are.
(content note: roasted piglet)
over my fucking dead body.
Fifteen thousand years of protecting humans, of hunting with humans, of raising our young, of unyielding loyalty, and you can't find a reason to justify taking them off the dinner plate?
Seriously?
Looks tasty.
its almost as if human cultures had varying views on dogs as both pets and food.
I like that most of these come with a blanket so you can just pop them in the oven for a cheeky snack later.
Except that is just it. Mostly we didn't. Dogs as companions was so universal, that it is thought that they had an impact on our evolution. Humans with no fondness for dogs just straight up dried thousands of years ago, leaving most of humanity with this weird love for dogs in our genetic code.
Dogs obviously went through far more significant genetic changes. Dogs bark almost exclusively to communicate with humans. Dogs are one of the only species of animals capable of recognizing human emotions.
Dogs are a whole different league of bonded with humanity.
this is some broscience tier garbage lmao where the hell did you get this from
You know abuse against dogs happen right
Dogs have literally evolved alongside us as companion animals, it's not really a dumb reason.
Eating dogs is mega fucked up
In your opinion, and my opinion, and many others, but not in the opinion of cultures who were raised on it.
Well those cultures can get fucked cause doggies are amazing animals we should cherish
I'm on the fence really. I would never eat dog, but I'm not really against other people doing it if they were not raised to see them as pets.
Logically you're right, it is similar to eating pigs or cows because end of the day they're all animals, and the only reason the western diet doesn't have dog is because we view them as pets.
But I think my dog was one of the reasons (along with environmental, ethical and health reasons) why I stopped eating meat. He brings me so much love and happiness and I started thinking of other animals, such as pigs, as being just like him because pigs and dogs are very similar in a lot of ways.
Justifying eating meat sort of became a thing where I would need to justify eating my dog, and that's all kinds of fucked up. But look that's just me and my logical thinking of it
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