I have to admit that I have never eaten dog and I don't fancy the idea. However provided the dogs have a reasonable and are humanely killed, I don't think its any worse to eat a dog than to eat a cow or a sheep or pig.
I feel that rescuing animals which suffer cruety in Thailand like this woman has done
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23785231
is a poor use of money. She has done nothing to improved the lot of dogs in Thailand.
In the UK there are lots of healthy dogs which get put down every year because no one wants them. Why could she not have given a Scottish dog a home? Sadly there is plenty of animal cruelty in all parts of the British Isles. The costs of paying for animal from Thaliand to fly to the UK and be quantinened would have saved numerous dogs in Scotland.
Rather than trying to stop dogs being eaten surely it would be better to set up farms and humanely kill dogs that are destined for the table just like sheep in the UK. (Ie. with similar hygiene standards to the UK.) Saving one dog by bringing it to England is not going to improve the dog meat trade in Thailand.
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ReallyTired · 20/09/2013 15:01
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I can't work it out if you are for or against. so I'm watching my fingers!
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Not sure unpasteurised human is allowed when preg.
On things that eat mainly meat, I once ate (reportedly) alligator.
And frogs, and camel (also reportedly).
Meat is meat. I think I'd be able to eat any cooked meat, just not kill the animal or human.
I'm more averse at some vegetables. 
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Olivia did a bit of person get stuck in your throat?
Sanity, I forgot about goats! I've eaten plenty of goat, and they eat ANYTHING. A goat ate my belt once, while I was still wearing it. It wouldn't let go, so I ended up cutting off the belt and leaving the goat to enjoy it as antipasto. I bet it was a Mumsnet benefits goat 
I know several people who've eaten their own placentas, post-delivery, obv. I guess eating your accidentally severed finger's just one small step beyond that; at least no other beings were harmed in the process! Meiwes & Brandes were just weird.
Domestic, the mercury's in the sea, thanks to pollution by humans. It doesn't leave the body so gets concentrated in the fish's tissue. I'm not sure whether eating other (polluted) fish makes carnivorous fish's mercury levels particularly high? It might, but then the algae & stuff that veggie fish eat would also be polluted. Anyway, you're right that we're only supposed to eat fish twice a week because we poisoned the bloody sea.
River fish don't contain much mercury :)
I think your campaign makes sense, ReallyTired.
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excuse the typing i've got my lairy little guinea-pig and he's wondering if he really does taste like chicken. anyone eaten guinea-pig.
as a vegetarian of many years - over 33 years- i view all animals as potentially edible , just that i choose not to.
as an aside though. this woman bringing all these dogs to the uk.
why
i can't 'get' why people rave about these charities , i think k9 angels or similar who rescue dogs abroad and rehome to the uk.
yes, because we have no dogs in rescue in the uk do we.
we don't have 1000s of dogs waiting and being pts.
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