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.

Like Matt Hancock?

(See threads passim.)

Probably, if I was hungry.

@ErrolTheDragon

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.

I take your point but I'm asking as a hypothetical scenario to see what people think about the idea in principle regardless of the viability / economics etc.

That reply was to @unmarkedbythat.

Damn, this thread moves fast.

I’ve eaten dog, cat, rat, python. I go to an African food festival every year where I’ve tried pretty much all big game animals over there. I thinks it’s more weird to not eat certain meat because they’ve been kept as pets. Plenty of people keep rabbits and chickens and still eat those

My assumption is that if dog was delicious enough to eat, they would generally have been eaten and never become pets. At which point, we wouldn't be fussed at all (presuming you're a meat eater obviously). The fact that they haven't suggests that they're not very tasty or worth eating vs the benefits they have either as pets or working dogs.

If only someone had not decided to eat a bat!
I agree it's kind of hypocritical to eat some animals and make a pet of others but that's the way I roll.

@ AngryFishes

No.
I don't eat sentient beings.
Neither would I cook dogs for anyone else to eat.

No, but realise it's purely an emotional response with no real rationale. Never considered the "not eating carnivores" thing and again can't see why it makes a difference but interesting thread OP

Never really understood the bat thing. Must be like chicken wings ie not much meat on them. I guess if you got a bargain bucket sized portion it would fill you up.

Anyway, we are where we are. Apparently.

The fact that they haven't suggests that they're not very tasty or worth eating vs the benefits they have either as pets or working dogs.

Can't comment on the taste myself but they are regarded as a delicacy in some cultures. I'm inclined to think it's the benefits of them as working animals which meant we never really regarded them as food, but upthread pp made a really interesting point about humans not generally eating carnivores, which I want to read more about now.

No, I like dogs. Humans on the other hand, I could definitely be persuaded, especially the rude ones.

Fuck no!!

No, but because they are carnivores/top of the food chain more than any moral issue. I don't imagine we would naturally hunt and eat dog, unless desperate. I'd imagine it to taste pretty awful, does it?

Yes, I would.
I’m not an animal person at all and feel no particular fondness for dogs over and above cows/pigs/sheep/chickens/salmon etc
I’d also eat insects.

I draw the line at spiders because even dead they scare me.

I would. I happily eat lambs and suckling pig and rabbits and have killed many a bird on shoots.

I think if you’re willing to eat one type of meat and then balk at another then you need to question why some animals mean fuck all and some don’t. I don’t get that.

The one that I had (at least I think it was dog, tbf it could have been any fucking thing in that sauce) was not v nice but most food I ate in soviet Russia wasn't v nice so I don't think it was an issue particular to dog meat, per se. Other people I know who have eaten it have said it's fine.

Regarding the point that humans generally speaking don't eat carnivores I'm guessing it is partly one of cost but also an increased risk of infection passing to humans if the animal being eaten has also eaten meat (possibly from a dubious source).

Years ago when we had that 'mad cow / BSE' scare wasn't that believed to have started when cows were fed ground pellets containing sheep brains?

If we ignore for a moment the increased cost of raising a carnivore for food presumably it is viable if you control what the dog is fed?

I thought the bse business was cows being fed other cows' infected brains? I remember having a conversation with a farmer who said they did it in response to consumer demand.

Must have been some funny old banners outside Sainsbury's in the run up to all that.

@Birdsandbeez

Regarding the point that humans generally speaking don't eat carnivores I'm guessing it is partly one of cost but also an increased risk of infection passing to humans if the animal being eaten has also eaten meat (possibly from a dubious source).

Years ago when we had that 'mad cow / BSE' scare wasn't that believed to have started when cows were fed ground pellets containing sheep brains?

If we ignore for a moment the increased cost of raising a carnivore for food presumably it is viable if you control what the dog is fed?

Right so if we ignore the fact there's no humane method to farm dogs, no humane method to slaughter them, no economic way of farming them and increased risk of zoonotic disease....

@TeddyIsaHe

I would. I happily eat lambs and suckling pig and rabbits and have killed many a bird on shoots.

I think if you’re willing to eat one type of meat and then balk at another then you need to question why some animals mean fuck all and some don’t. I don’t get that.

Have you ever seen a dog slaughtered?

Thought not

I'm happy to humanely shoot and kill things. The key is the word humane.

Tbh if you want to worry about cruel and potentially dodgy to human health farming practices in regard to carnivores, you'd do well to focus on pigs.

You only need to have had a dog come over to you when you're crying to feel love for them.

Have you ever interacted with a pig? Given the opportunity to develop (ie space to roam, opportunities to exercise their brains, plenty of interaction with humans - exactly what pet dogs get) pigs connect with humans just as emotionally as dogs.

I don't see how dogs could be farmed humanely - they are predators. The only way to control them would be to cage them like animals farmed for fur.

I would turn vegetarian rather than eat farmed dog. And that's not implying anything bad about vegetarianism. I'm a vegetable-loving meat eater. I'd be far happier eating veg than eating farmed dog. Than eating any farmed carnivore. No, I don't eat pork, either.

Yes I would if it tasted nice ? Never been anywhere that serves it so can’t say.

Absolutely not.