Poll: Is It Ok To Eat Animals Considered Pets? (Please Read The Post First lol)
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Its based on your culture. We don't eat dogs and cats because they serve a purpose to us.
Cats are useful in farms because they eat pests that would damage crops and scare farm animals.
Dogs are useful for herding, hunting, and defending your home.
Its the same reason why we don't eat horses. They are more useful to us as work animals the food. If we never realized how useful dogs were for hunting we probably never would have domesticated them. Same with cats.
Our culture has stuck to these principals. We keep dogs as companions and some people do take them hunting. Cats are company along with a way to discourage rodents from moving in.
I'm not trying to make a case of unfeeling robot nature. I spoil the hell out of my cat for no other reason then i think she's awesome. It just in context of eating pets or not that's really a big reason why our culture doesn't do it.
I can almost guarantee you that if cats and dogs were never decided to serve us a purpose we would have some food made from them.
Cats are useful in farms because they eat pests that would damage crops and scare farm animals.
Dogs are useful for herding, hunting, and defending your home.
Its the same reason why we don't eat horses. They are more useful to us as work animals the food. If we never realized how useful dogs were for hunting we probably never would have domesticated them. Same with cats.
Our culture has stuck to these principals. We keep dogs as companions and some people do take them hunting. Cats are company along with a way to discourage rodents from moving in.
I'm not trying to make a case of unfeeling robot nature. I spoil the hell out of my cat for no other reason then i think she's awesome. It just in context of eating pets or not that's really a big reason why our culture doesn't do it.
I can almost guarantee you that if cats and dogs were never decided to serve us a purpose we would have some food made from them.
Yeah, watch your facts, bro. Most Koreans do not regularly eat dog (most Koreans have never even tried dog), selling dog meat is illegal (although some people do it anyways), and nureongi are essentially mutts and mongrels, not some super-special cowdog (seriously, wtf?).AccursedTheory said:
As for eating pets in general -- some people have pet lambs, goats, rabbits, horses, and birds, all of which are or were commonly eaten. My mother had a pet rooster when she was younger; she still eats chicken. The difference between companion animals and food animals is entirely arbitrary.
If you have no problem eating a cow you should have no problem eating a cat. They have exactly the same capacity to suffer. Personally, I'm vegetarian so I've got a different view on the matter than most here.
On a side note, most pet adoption agencies actually make you sign a form stating you do not intend to use the animal you're adopting for food. I remember reading it when I got my cat and thought it was weird at the time but I guess there's a reason for it.
On a side note, most pet adoption agencies actually make you sign a form stating you do not intend to use the animal you're adopting for food. I remember reading it when I got my cat and thought it was weird at the time but I guess there's a reason for it.
Surely. As an individual who has had the choice of eating an animal under those specific circumstances (cat and dog both). They are quite edible, and very delicious when prepared as they are for the appropriate custom. I'm still waiting to find a place to try Horse, personally.
A bit, yeah. Usually about chicken tender sized meat pieces, too.Pimppeter2 said:
I was in Korea. They eat dogs in there shopping malls. I've been to the dog farms, which are in populated, easily found areas.atalanta said:
While it is illegal, the laws are simply not enforced. South Korea is HORRIBLE about things like this. Hell, they have an entire street that is nothing but a quarter mile of prostitution houses where the majority of the women are SLAVES, and they honestly don't care.
Look it up, they don't care.
here's the thing... we don't eat dogs and cats because they're more useful to us as hunters. cats eat mice, dogs attack intruders and other rodentia (at least the good ones do). Lamb/sheep is less common because it's more useful for wool. goat and horse are even less commonly eaten because of their uses as pack animals, etc. It societal evolution.
We also don't consider eating them because most of them are cute, or at least bred over the generations to be cuter and better companions.
Anything else, that serves no useful purpose, I say chow down just like our ancestors did. just as long as it was a relatively humane kill.
And no, cat does not taste like chicken. wild cat tastes a little like squirrel.
although... I am against kidnapping house pets or stealing from PETA or the Humane Society just to eat them. that's just dick. you're better off eating rat, snake, or squirrel. they're healthier for you anyway. (saw that on MANswers)
We also don't consider eating them because most of them are cute, or at least bred over the generations to be cuter and better companions.
Anything else, that serves no useful purpose, I say chow down just like our ancestors did. just as long as it was a relatively humane kill.
And no, cat does not taste like chicken. wild cat tastes a little like squirrel.
although... I am against kidnapping house pets or stealing from PETA or the Humane Society just to eat them. that's just dick. you're better off eating rat, snake, or squirrel. they're healthier for you anyway. (saw that on MANswers)
chinese eat cats and dogs..we eat cows..chickens are also pets to some people.
we have a saying here "whatever flies is eatable"..so yeah, knock yourself out.
we have a saying here "whatever flies is eatable"..so yeah, knock yourself out.