Poll: Is it morally wrong to eat cats and dogs?

[eruwenfuin]

Morals are relative things, not absolute, really it depends on your individual stance regarding these types of issues. So really, what up with this question?

 

[Akalistos]

Morally wrong? no. But they taste terrible.

I don't like the idea of people eating my furry friends, but I don't object to it either. Heck, I eat cow and some people consider them divine.

As long as its not harmful to them, who am I to judge what people eat?

Do you think it's not harmful to their life to get eaten? Tho, I have to commend you on having the balls to try some. I'm one of the rare people that did try fried bugs when the insectarium (aka, the bug zoo) decided to give sampling. I loved the chocolate coated worms.

Actually, I meant the people eating it, not the animals themselves. I object to people eating, say, poisonous mushrooms, or rotten carcasses, or rocks.

Besides tasting really bad (sort of like raccoon, if you've had that. Very gamey and not a lot of flavor. Beef is so much better its not even funny.), Dogs and Cats serve much greater purposes than nourishment. Cats eat mice and rats, which can destroy grain crops. Dogs can aid in hunting and will chase and eat larger pests like squirrels and raccoons. Dogs especially are very good at self defense, and can protect you from snoopy predators. These extremely useful behaviors and general friendliness toward humans are why we domesticated them in the first place. Quite simply, they're far more useful to us alive than food.

Yeah, if the dog is domesticated and you need to find your own source of food in a civilization free area, he could be a precious ally. As for the cat, No. Still only worth is food in that case.

As for preference... Well, it depend on taste. Like I mentions, I had one a muskrat pepperoni pizza. Tho the meat tasted a bit salty but still pretty good, it tasted pretty similar to any other meats. If I were to find the recipe, you wouldn't even tell the difference until it was too late. I sure couldn't. This is what led me to believe that the taste will only slightly vary between species (depending what you do, cook and serve it of course). The only thing that get to me is humanizing my food. I tried fried octopus tentacles* and the only time I had a hard time swallow was when I spotted one shaped like a actual baby octopus. I almost threw it up a couple of time before could muster the courage to swallow.


(*If you giggle at that, you are sick and need medical treatment... NOW)

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

It all depends on circumstance.
In standard circumstances, morally wrong, no, ethically wrong, yes.