Eating Dog Meat: Objectively Wrong

[Bobby Martnen]

Eating dog meat is disgusting and vile.

Dogs are pets, and beloved members of our family, not livestock.

If I had to chose between starving to death or eating a dog, I'd choose to starve to death. My feelings on this issue are that strong.

[AK-47]

Dog eating societies are riddled with subhuman vermin.
No surprise that an obese and mentally challenged despot runs North Korea.
Dogs have been bred for 1000s of years as companion, herding, and guard animals, they're not livestock.
A civilized person only eats their dogs in times of desperation, like a failed Arctic mission, and they must eat their sled dogs or perish.

[1R0N M4N XL]

it should be a global law passed by the united nations to banned using dogs/cats for meat..

unless the tribal village is starving to death.

[Peterski]

Dog meat is said to raise the internal heat, and therefore be a good warming up meal in the winter. In some parts of China it is also seen as good luck during certain times of the year. In Vietnam and Korea it is seen as an affordable and plentiful food source. Even in the rural Swiss cantons of Appenzell and St. Gallen are known to have had a tradition of eating dogs, curing dog meat into jerky and sausages, as well as using the lard for medicinal purposes.


For those of us who are taken aback by this, the question is; Is it simply our own cultural bias, or is there something inherently wrong with eating Lassie?

The answer I argue is this. Due to the way that the dog came into existence eating them is not only wrong, but can perhaps be deemed immoral. Let me explain. It is thought that the current lineage of dogs was domesticated as early as 15,000 years ago. They were our first domesticated animal. Did we domesticate them for food? The canid is a carnivore, so domesticating an animal you will have to feed with meat, for meat, would certainly be counterproductive. And the evidence does not point to this. Many early human burials are found to be besides those of their beloved dogs.

What this means is that, the current dog itself would not exist had we eaten its ancestors early on. Our relationship and bond, has literally molded them into the animal they are today. We (or perhaps evolutionary pressure) favored those dogs which were more docile, loyal, trusting and intelligent. For thousands upon thousands of years we have through our mutual relationship developed the animal it is today. Since they are born it is in their DNA to seek affection, approval, and interaction with human beings. To take advantage of such a history, or to simply disregard it is, I argue objectively wrong.

But would your dog eat you? It has been observed that when a dog owner dies alone in his/her home and there is no one notified, the pet dogs will not eat the human until the brink of death by starvation is a very real threat. This, is akin to what humans who are faced with survival situations are often forced to do.
Of course Not all humans would go that route, and neither too would all dogs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1782603.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...six-weeks.html

I agree.

[rhiannon]

I find eating dogs to be quite revolting, because not only they're not good for you, but also they're man's best friend. Yes, i do love dogs more than cats, mainly because dogs can feel emotions and affection towards their human companion than cats, and they are more intelligent than cats or any domesticated animal(with the exception of the pig).

Gonna have to disagree with you on this.

People don't think cats feel emotions or affection towards their humans because cats don't act like dogs

Ask any cat person though and we'll tell you how wrong you are.

Moreover, a cat's brain is wired more similarly to a human's brain than it is to a dog's brain. That would lend itself to the very real possibility of cats being smarter than dogs.

Nevertheless, both are companion animals and are thus not up for eating in Western Societies (Swiss are bizarre in this custom).

I couldn't eat either one.

[Dandelion]

Yes. Economically nor ecologically dog meat even makes no sense. You have to use meat-based feed to get far less meat out of it. We already use 90% our crops to produce feed and not food. The industry on herbivore meat is already an ecological burden.

[Ülev]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ay-every-stray

[Purohit ji]

Too many hypocrites in this thread.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

A dog is an intelligent animal. So we shouldn't kill it for food. A deer is a dumb animal. So cook me up some deer. Also, there is no such thing as an old deer. They're killed by a predator eventually. That predator might as well be man.

Dogs also serve a purpose in society that other animals do not. They literally have jobs (guard dog, hunting dog, etc.) and so that makes them useful. That places them in a different category from other animals.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

If pushed to the limits of survival I'd have to eat dog and anything else, including... you. If society crumbled people would be at each other's throats. If you tried to kill me, I'd have to kill you. I might as well eat you afterwards. Also, if I have a generator, you could last me months (depending on your weight) in the freezer. I'd be okay with food for awhile.