Would you eat dogs?

[Birdsandbeez]

If dogs were farmed and slaughtered in properly regulated premises would you eat them?

I can understand a lot of people keep them as pets and I'm not advocating eating Fido next door but surely eating properly farm bred dogs isn't unreasonable is it?

Personally I wouldn't have any problem with it if it was properly controlled.

I have eaten horse, it’s a very lean red meat like venison. I thought it was delicious. I would probably draw the line at a Labrador kebab, though. There are good reasons why we don’t normally eat scavenging carnivorous animals.

No but I would and have eaten Horse. Won’t eat rabbit though as I’ve had them as pets.

No logic really.

I have a pet dog so no. I am not totally veggie but don’t eat much meat of any kind anyway. Each to their cultural own I guess though

I eat rabbit, no problem, although the bones tend to splinter and need picking out. I have no ethical objection to horse meat but wouldn't choose it for purely sentimental reasons.

As a vegetarian I see no difference, pigs are smart and love just like dogs, as do cows, and all animals. It’s not a weird question.. if you’re going to eat meat at least own that decision and eat all meat.

It'd be quite expensive to farm dogs for food since they eat meat. That's why we were assured that none of the meals we had in Vietnam/Cambodia would be dog passed off as other meat.

Personally I wouldn't have anything against eating them if there was no other option but i'm not a big meat eater so I hope i'd never have to.

@WhatHaveIFound dogs don’t HAVE to eat meat, they can be raised vegetarian too

[quote Bleughbleughbleugh12]@WhatHaveIFound dogs don’t HAVE to eat meat, they can be raised vegetarian too[/quote]
No.
They can't.
Frighteningly cruel.

Please describe to me the humane farming and slaughter process for a fear-aggressive carnivore @Birdsandbeez

@WhatHaveIFound

It'd be quite expensive to farm dogs for food since they eat meat. That's why we were assured that none of the meals we had in Vietnam/Cambodia would be dog passed off as other meat.

Personally I wouldn't have anything against eating them if there was no other option but i'm not a big meat eater so I hope i'd never have to.

This is correct. Dog is significantly more expensive than other meat and usually stolen as farming dogs is v expensive

I have eaten and would eat again horse, rabbit and goat. Of those, goat would be my preferred choice and I can't see why anyone who eats baby sheep would have a problem with adult goat.

I have eaten guinea pig but would probably not again as it wasn't great. That might have been the restaurant though.

Dogs I would have to be starving to eat. I have seen the crap (literally) that they will eat and if I had reached a stage where I even thought it a good idea to eat the dog, I'd probably rather just have it as a companion in my last hours. Obviously it would eat me once I was "ripe" enough.

No slaughtering is 'humane'.

No I don't eat duck either. We have some that visit the house for tea so now I see them as pets

No thank you.

But then I avoid red meat.

I could be wrong here so I'm not speaking with any expert knowledge but I'd have thought if dog steaks etc were pre packed and widely sold along side beef and bacon in the supermarket then far more people would eat them once they became a regular sight.

At the moment in the UK it is illegal to sell dog for human consumption so we never see it and feel uncomfortable with the idea but if a beef steak was say £7 and next to it was a similar looking dog steak for £5 I'd have thought a lot would give it a try.

Yes but not out of choice

No never. I’d rather eat my right arm.

I don't eat meat. I am often intrigued by people happily tucking into cow, pig, sheep or chicken but being horrified by people in other cultures enjoying dog or cat or horse. To me you're all doing exactly the same thing!

Pretty sure I did in Russia in the 80s. Let's just say it definitely wasn't chicken. 🤣🤣 Anyway, blah, yeah I would if it tasted ok. I don't spare animals from slaughter on the basis of cuteness.

Not out of choice as we have been raised to think of them as pets rather than food.

If I was starving then yes but other then that no.

Only hot dogs.

Would you eat lab grown meat? Something without a brain or any CNS at all?

a beef steak was say £7 and next to it was a similar looking dog steak for £5 I'd have thought a lot would give it a try.

I don't think you've costed up farming carnivores vs herbivores, have you?

There's an ecological argument in favour of including grass-fed animals in our diet as they can use land unsuitable for other crops. There's absolutely no case for farming carnivores.

don't eat meat due to it's very high carbon footprint.

I don't eat meat, but never understand why people will happily eat a sausage when pigs are more intelligent than dogs, so undoubtedly suffer more stress if badly treated (which millions of them are). Yet there's always horror at the suggestion of eating dogs.

It's pretty simple really. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with the intelligence of the animal (although some people claim it does). It's just cultural. We have had hundreds, maybe thousands of years of having dogs as pets, companions and helpers, so it's hardly surprising we don't see them as food.

It's often used as a bit of a vegetarian trump card in an argument. "Ha - if it's fine to eat animals then why don't you eat dogs, eh?" Well, because a) it's not culturally the norm in my country and b) I regard dogs as pets. It is the norm to eat pigs - they are raised for that sole purpose. And I don't regard pigs as pets. If I'd been brought up in a country where pigs were pets and dogs were food, I guess I'd have a pig on my lap and a dog in the oven right now!