To see nothing wrong with eating dogs in principle

[ReallyTired]

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.

[burningbrightly]

I am suggesting setting up a dog farm in Thailand and lobbying the Thai government to make it law that only farmed dog meat can be sold. Its terrible to think that people's beloved pets are stolen for the meat market.

Whaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!

What do you think life would be like for the farmed dogs? Or is it that, for you, value is linked to how much you are loved?

Are are you joking and I need another glass of wine?

[burningbrightly]

A dog is not like a cow at all . Cows only eat grass, dogs eat everything including their own shit and vomit.

[FreudiansSlipper]

i have eaten dog

i did not know at the time i thought it was beef

i can not see the big issue with it or eating horse just i choose not to.

i would prefer money to go towards the many young boys and girls trapped and abused in the sex industry that is mainly for western customers

[Smartiepants79]

If you eat meat, you eat meat.
All domesticated animals have evolved (or been bred) alongside humans. That includes cows, sheep, chickens, goats and pigs.
I wouldn't choose dog particularly. Not sure it would taste that wonderful.
However, as a meat eater I can't come over all sanctimonious about people that do.
People who eat meat but get all squeamish and holier than thou about certain foods irritate me intensely.

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

I read a story recently about a man who had his finger amputated for medical reasons, took it home and ate it. He said he'd always been curious about the taste.

So, if there was a person who was happy for you to eat a bit of them (either post-death or post amputation) and there were no contagion/poisoning risks - would you?

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

Consensual cannibalism en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

[thanksamillion]

People do apparently eat dog where I live, although mainly due to hunger than any particular taste for it.

Our dog (which we'd found and nursed back to health) disappeared and local friends think that someone took it to eat because it was unusually well fed for dogs here

[ReallyTired]

"Whaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!

What do you think life would be like for the farmed dogs? Or is it that, for you, value is linked to how much you are loved?"

What makes you think that life is picnic for farmed cows, pigs or sheep in the UK? Why is it so terrible to farm dogs for the dinner table?

It must be awful when a much loved family pet disappears. I suspect that stolen dog suffer a much worse death than any animal bred for the dinner table in the UK.

People on this thread who compare eating dog to canibalism are nuts.

[Bubbles1066]

I agree too OP. No difference between eating a dog or any other animal. Whilst I would love a veggie world unfortunately people want to (but only a few need to) eat meet so we should concentrate on the welfare of farmed animals.

[OliviaMMumsnet]

Ahem

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

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.

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

Olivia did a bit of person get stuck in your throat?

[ZingWantsCake]

burning much like pigs and chickens then

[ReallyTired]

"Haha we've had threads about eating people I've only just remembered "

I've never had a thread of mine deleted before...

[LesserSpottedNeckSnake]

In theory, I can see your point. But as I type this I have a very cute curly puppy asleep next to me and an adorable spaniel laying on my feet. So it makes me feel a bit queasy. I could perhaps get with a cat casserole, though.

[PrincessFlirtyPants]

Yes, YABU.

I don't eat any animals, so the idea of eating a dog is frankly disgusting to me.

[garlicbaguette]

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.

[MalcolmTuckersMistress]

No, I'm afraid I have a rule that I won't eat anything else that eats mainly meat.

[ZingWantsCake]