Honestly don't see a problem if it's killed humanely and then for consumption, as it's exactly the same as a farmer breeding cattle and then slaughtering them. A bit pathetic, though, that people are so poor they have to eat their family pets. Come to think of it, when are you ever too poor to buy a burger, but can afford charcoal and a barbeque?
No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Very gamy, and kinda dry, as I recall. I didn't like it too much, but they said it was past its prime. -Kayin, who knows that sometimes eating what is set in front of him so as not to offend can be dangerous.
I'm fond of most animals myself, but I've developed a sort of double-think attitude that allows me to comfortably kill and eat them. I find most mammals and birds fascinating and beautiful, but at the end of the day they taste great, too; so my concern is not that they shouldn't be killed (after all, that's sorta natural, for food) but that they shoudn't suffer unnecessarily. In the case of this story, it would appear the dog didn't...although admittedly we've only the culprit's word on that. I'm not sure dog IS worth killing for, though - like Kayin says, it's pretty gamey dark meat. Not exactly lamb chops. Besides which, given their loyalty, devotion and territorial aggression, a dog's almost always worth more to a household alive, as a guardian and companion, than dead. So i.m.h.o. these people are idiots for cooking theirs.
saw this on twitter. passed it by. koreans eat dog as a delicacy. bit of an expensive meal no? a few grand (that's NZ currency) to buy the dog and feed it.
I love my dog, but at the end of the day its still an animal. While I wouldn't kill and eat MY dog (its about the emotional attachment, not the fact its a dog), I wouldn't have a problem eating dog meat. I'm generally more concerned with how its treated than with what kinda animal it is/was.
Because the long term cost of keeping a pet it much more than the cost of the BBQ? I don't think I'd have a problem eating meat from most animals... so long as it tastes good and isn't going to kill you then why not eat it!! (p.s. I do like animals and am no completely heartless, but the preferred place for a nice bit of ribeye is definately in my stomach). I concur.
If civilization ended tomorrow, and food sources were scarce, your dog would not hesitate to eat you. And he would have no problem digesting the moral implications. He's only man's best friend because we domesticated it and continue to feed it. To be clear, I'm saying this as a fellow dog owner. Here in the west, in our comfy living rooms logged into our fast internet connections, we get appalled when people dare to eat our anthropomorphized friends. But when food sources are scarce, people will resort to eating just about anything. Seeing this thread just now makes me wish I hadn't just eaten waffles for dinner. I could have gone out for a nice juicy burger. -monkey
Amen. There's nothing unhealthy about a pragmatic attitude toward other species (and even our own, depending on the culture you live in). It's compatible with humanitarian empathy. An ongoing point of contention is that, when my cat dies, I'd like to use his fur to make something. Apparently, as many people wouldn't hesitate to tell me inbetween bites of a Big Mac, this makes me a sick individual. Personally, I think it just makes me slightly less wasteful than most.