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.

Objectively I don't see any difference between eating dog or sheep or cows but hypocritically I couldn't eat dog because I'm such a dog lover.

Also I think there's likely a reason we eat sheep and cows and pigs rather than dog, which is that dog just isn't particularly nice.

@Suzi888

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

Apparently there is lab grown human 'meat' now. Do you fancy trying that if it's approved for human consumption?

Like fuck would I.

@WhatHaveIFound I’m actually vegetarian, that sounds disgusting! What’s the purpose of lab grown human meat?

Tried it before. And other different animals.
I'd eat it again if nothing else was available. But out of choice again. No.

No. Would rather starve.

I'll eat anything.

@jennie0412 nothing cruel about it. Dogs can be vegetarian. A good vegetarian diet is just as good as carnivore if done correctly, a very quick google will tell you that.

And @TeddyIsaHe you are exactly right! I don’t mind meat eaters that own the fact they are meat eaters, ignorance is wrong. I feel the same as you except it made me vegetarian.

[quote Suzi888]@WhatHaveIFound I’m actually vegetarian, that sounds disgusting! What’s the purpose of lab grown human meat?[/quote]
If lab grown human meat was palatable and resembled the meats we already eat I'd try it.

As long as it was only ever an inanimate meat and not a sentient human I can see anything wrong with it. Surely it's just another meat product isn't it?

Assuming it was tasty wouldn't it give vegetarians who refuse meat for animal rights reasons a viable product?

Dogs teeth are adapted for a mainly meat diet although they will eat anything. Look at the difference between a dog's teeth and a horse's.

@AlwaysLatte

Omg never. 😭 Pulses are easier and cheaper to get anyway, so you would never starve!!

I honestly read that as pussies are easier and cheaper to get anyway

This reminds me of a joke that Stoic philosophers are the only ethical meat because they have accepted their death and are good with it.

@CaptainMyCaptain we have teeth for meat and again, are very healthy vegetarians. Anyway I personally wouldn’t bring up a dog vegetarian I’m just saying the cost of raising dogs is high as they eat meat is irrelevant because they don’t have to

I've rated kangaroo, crocodile and turtle before ... I'd eat dog. I draw the line at insects

[quote Bleughbleughbleugh12]@CaptainMyCaptain we have teeth for meat and again, are very healthy vegetarians. Anyway I personally wouldn’t bring up a dog vegetarian I’m just saying the cost of raising dogs is high as they eat meat is irrelevant because they don’t have to[/quote]
That raises the question would a vegetarian fed dog taste any different to a carnivore?

Since dogs are relatively easy to selectively breed to get the traits you want presumably if there was a market for them as food you could develop a herbivorous one. I'm not suggesting it could be done in a few generations but I'd have thought you could eventually breed a dog that was a viable food source.

[quote Suzi888]@WhatHaveIFound I’m actually vegetarian, that sounds disgusting! What’s the purpose of lab grown human meat?[/quote]
I'm guessing this is a reference to growing human organs for transplant, not actually for dinner.

If humans were bred in the same controlled environment that you're talking about op, would you eat them too?

@Twizbe See, I wasn’t a fan of crocodile- bit chewy.

Love Ostrich though, absolutely delicious.

@EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide

If humans were bred in the same controlled environment that you're talking about op, would you eat them too?

No.

No, though I’ve lived in places that do and actively avoided it, because I think domestication is different for farm animals and a species we have selectively bred to work for us, live with us, and be companion animals.

I had a pet pig once. She was delightful. Nuzzled me if I was sad, rolled over, could fetch. Her hip gave out occasionally after an unfortunate birth- when in pain she'd hobble to me and nuzzle her head in panting and panicked just wanting cuddles and shushes from me. Walked lovely on the lead. Would wake and squeak if someone came into the front garden, She was the best dog I ever had. I still eat pork. So I guess I would eat dog- but I am hugely selective of the pork I eat, and don't think dog farming could possibly meet the same standards- of roaming, of feeding or farming, because of logistics mentioned by many other posters.

Generally we don't eat things on the same rung of the food chain do we? So mammalian carnivores generally not. Is it because of the livers?
However I have eaten carnivorous fish, crocodile, snake, some weirdy worm things in China that could have lived on anything, shellfish, and they are all essentially carnivorous, and pigs and poultry are omnivores, so my view is logically inconsistent.
I haven't eaten dog and wouldn't choose to at home, no matter how humanely it was farmed. If offered it as part of a hosted dinner I'd manage to get it down more elegantly than a bush tucker trial (I did with a lambs eye once!!).

Yrs because I am prepared to eat pigs and fish. I dont have a hierarchy of sentient beings. Travelling I will eat anything if eaten within that culture. I love my cat but would eat her if my survival depended on it

I think like a lot of humans I can delude myself well, ie taking the face off fish, mincing meat so it doesn't actually look like an organ etc. I do think I am a hypocrite though as I eat animals yet claim to love them

I believe carnivores taste stronger & more 'gamey' - was told this in Cambodia by our guide who reckoned dogs & cats were both tasty, but Westerners who weren't brought up to eat them generally disliked the flavour.

Plus all the arguments about it being uneconomic to raise carnivores as food - & whilst I'm sure farmed dogs could survive on a veggie diet (maybe if slaughtered as barely weaned puppies, poor things), I don't think you could argue that that was any sort of humane farming practice.

When I ran a pub, many years ago, an elderly regular used to bring me wild rabbits he'd shot. Rabbit pie was a popular choice on our menu. Said regular used to like to wind me up by saying he'd successfully sold cats by passing them off as rabbit, as a teenager in WW2. Apparently in order to fool people you just need to remove the liver (it's bigger in carnivores) once you've skinned puss, & they made a nice stew 🧐.

But no, I wouldn't fancy dog or cat meat much.

Cannibalism I'd be ok with - people could have donor cards - but I reckon by the time one had popped one's clogs we'd mostly be a bit old & stringy.

I read an autobiography of a man who went to Sandhurst in the 20s or 30s and part of officer training was how to identify meat. All officers had to be able to ensure that the meat that was delivered was what they had ordered, and that they bought the correct meat in the first place. It was apparently not unusual for unscrupulous traders to substitute horse or donkey for beef, and cat for rabbit.