I eat chickens, cows, and pigs & I have a question for others who eat chickens etc

[Keltron]

Why don't you also eat dogs and cats?
What is it about dogs and cats that keeps you from eating them the way you eat cows, chickens, or pigs?
I personally can't really answer this question for myself if I really think about it.

[mtpockets]

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It‘s just a matter of tradition. There is no logical or ethical reason for not eating any kind of animals when you decide to eat one kind. It‘s e.g. not allowed to eat dogs where I live, however you can eat horses. Doesn‘t make any sense.

[mgftp]

Well if you ignore the fact society looks down upon it, you can't get it easily, and I think it's illegal. Because dogs and cats are more domesticated. I'd prefer not to but I could probably eat a cat as I don't care for them much or think they connect with humans like dogs, but I'd rather kill myself than eat a dog.

[ajdahlheimer]

Why don't you also eat dogs and cats?
What is it about dogs and cats that keeps you from eating them the way you eat cows, chickens, or pigs?
I personally can't really answer this question for myself if I really think about it.

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[Bigdumogre]

I have traveled throughout China and eating dogs in some parts is very normal. Also in fewer regions they also eat cats. Nothing wrong with either meat and they are tasty ( just the way they are killed is horrible but I’m not gonna go into that here). Also insects and reptiles are more readily eaten in other countries along with rodents like rats and guinea pigs.

[dazlittle]

The simple answer is that they are not for sale in the shops that I frequent.

[MrCarrot]

Part of me thinks the intelligence of the animal plays a part, which is why I don't understand why we eat pork.

Cows are dumb and chickens are even dumber, which I guess helps a lot of people in their justification for eating them. Whereas cats and dogs are pretty intelligent. What a lot of people don't realise, is a pig is on par with a dog in terms of intelligence, so I believe.

[mgftp]

Part of me thinks the intelligence of the animal plays a part, which is why I don't understand why we eat pork.

Cows are dumb and chickens are even dumber, which I guess helps a lot of people in their justification for eating them. Whereas cats and dogs are pretty intelligent. What a lot of people don't realise, is a pig is on par with a dog in terms of intelligence, so I believe.

People have pigs as pets now. They seem like much more of an animal than a dog which seem humanlike to me, but they surely do seem smart and affectionate, kinda makes me feel bad about eating bacon every day.

[StainlesSon]

The fact that we breeded them for centuries for companionship

While we breeded other animal races for consumption

Also, a pig will eat your cadaver the second you die, if he can, a dog would stand vigil for days

You are not right in the head if you keep a pet pig

[MrCarrot]

People have pigs as pets now. They seem like much more of an animal than a dog which seem humanlike to me, but they surely do seem smart and affectionate, kinda makes me feel bad about eating bacon every day.

Same here :-(

I guess pigs aren't as fast and nimble as dogs, but I think they're as intelligent as dogs, and I also heard that (like nearly all animals) they're actually clean and it's a misconception that pigs are dirty. Like you say people have them as pets now, and I think they're affectionate, can be toilet trained and taught "tricks" and such like.

[sy2502]

Why don't you also eat dogs and cats?
What is it about dogs and cats that keeps you from eating them the way you eat cows, chickens, or pigs?
I personally can't really answer this question for myself if I really think about it.

In some parts of Italy they ate cats until fairly recently. We also eat horse and donkey. It all comes down to what you were told as a child was proper to eat or not.

[Mark1T]

In some parts of Italy they ate cats until fairly recently. We also eat horse and donkey. It all comes down to what you were told as a child was proper to eat or not.

Sy, please. I told you before, that we will not have horse meat at our wedding

[Cass40]

Sy, please. I told you before, that we will not have horse meat at our wedding

No but there will be a special "gatto fondue" -appetizer.

[Mark1T]

No but there will be a special "gatto fondue" -appetizer.

(special thanks to Chazzy)

[Karl_Hungus]

The fact that we breeded them for centuries for companionship

While we breeded other animal races for consumption

Also, a pig will eat your cadaver the second you die, if he can, a dog would stand vigil for days

You are not right in the head if you keep a pet pig

^^ This is the answer. We breed dogs for companionship and therefore domesticated dogs have evolved specialized personality, behavior, and even cognition to be compatible with humans. Chimpanzees have larger brains and higher general intelligence, but tests with dogs show that they are more capable of interpreting human emotional states and are more adept at reading human nonverbal behavior than are our closest living genetic relatives. They have essentially been bred to have a symbiotic relationship with humans, and from this, strong emotional bonds are developed. Therefore, killing dogs and eating them feels more like a cruel betrayal than does killing and eating a chicken.

[Cass40]

Cats are *******s, though. We can eat them.

[7Seconds]

Cats are *******s, though. We can eat them.

Yep. Dogs are wolves that kinda figured out a way to get more calories out of a single human. Cats showed up later and just take small tributes of food in the expectation they can eat your corpse when you die.

[OldFartTom]

The simple answer is that they are not for sale in the shops that I frequent.

Never been to KFC?

[OldFartTom]

In some parts of Italy they ate cats until fairly recently. We also eat horse and donkey. It all comes down to what you were told as a child was proper to eat or not.

The only person I've actually met who had a story about eating cats (in a pie) was an elderly (Northern) Italian guy, now passed away. The story was just after the end of WW2 so I'd assumed it was just extreme hunger, maybe not just that after reading your comment?

Edit: before you ask.. similar to rabbit, but not quite the same.

[TCWoody]

A wet cat looks similar to a squirrel.
On the other hand they look like wethaired rats.

Cant, wont.

[deadwoodgregg]

Cats are *******s, though. We can eat them.

No problem with that...……………...I am a giver.



So can I assume that cats are on your menu?

[sy2502]

The only person I've actually met who had a story about eating cats (in a pie) was an elderly (Northern) Italian guy, now passed away. The story was just after the end of WW2 so I'd assumed it was just extreme hunger, maybe not just that after reading your comment?

Edit: before you ask.. similar to rabbit, but not quite the same.

I heard people talking of having eaten cat, usually as someone else's house, who passed it for rabbit while they were eating only to tell them afterwards that it was cat. Whether those stories were true or not, I can't really say. The city of Vicenza had that specific reputation, you couldn't say you were from Vicenza without somebody snickering and saying under their breath "cat eaters".
I don't doubt people ate cats and probably worse after the war, but when I was growing up, cat was considered more if not a delicacy, something unusual or adventurous to eat. Now where those cats came from is another matter, I suspect stray cats, which means they were probably riddled with parasites and whatever, so I wouldn't think it's a good idea to eat it.

[Cass40]

No problem with that...……………...I am a giver.



So can I assume that cats are on your menu?

Nah, I love cats. I was just kidding.

[weiss1967]

the real reason (hello Cass long time no see) why we don’t eat cats, dogs, and other predatory animals is that they are not very nutritious. That is where the tradition someone mentioned earlier, came from. We also do not eat sharks, because they are higher on the predation chain, I think fourth if I remember correctly. Fourth from plankton. All other explanatiions are superficial, if cats or dogs were a good food we would be eating them.

[JediRN]

Has no one mentioned that dogs and pigs have personality?

[Cass40]

Has no one mentioned that dogs and pigs have personality?

Yes and that pigs will eat as soon as you stop breathing. Those piggies ain't loyal.

[grubman]

I’m not sure how many of the posts on this thread are serious...but the most practical and high yield stock animals have been breed speceicially for consumption for thousands of years. Dogs and cats have been specifically bread for companionship for thousands of years. It’s really pretty simple, both of these procedures have been towards the goal of adding the characteristics desired, and taking away the undesirable ones.

But on a tangent, when I was a younger, more immature man in the army, we used to play this “game”. Ask a straight man if he would let another man have anal sex with him for a million dollars. Once the answer is “yes”, and you’ve determined you WILL do something undesirable for the right amount of money...the question becomes, “well how low will you go then”.

Point being...once you start characterizing every living thing as “meat” where is the line drawn? Mans best friend, loyal companion animal is ok to eat? What about primates, intelligent closest relative of man?...why not humans?

We’ve spent a long time crawling out of savagery up to the (still) pathetic position we are currently in...why take a step backwards? The fact that someone had to ask the question (if serious) is disturbing.

[Mark1T]

Piggies are social, smart and can be domesticated to a point, but not like a dog. Piggies will eat you and then destroy your home, yard, land and garden. They are very destructive.

Meanwhile...

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I’m not sure how many of the posts on this thread are serious...but the most practical and high yield stock animals have been breed speceicially for consumption for thousands of years. Dogs and cats have been specifically bread for companionship for thousands of years. It’s really pretty simple, both of these procedures have been towards the goal of adding the characteristics desired, and taking away the undesirable ones.

But on a tangent, when I was a younger, more immature man in the army, we used to play this “game”. Ask a straight man if he would let another man have anal sex with him for a million dollars. Once the answer is “yes”, and you’ve determined you WILL do something undesirable for the right amount of money...the question becomes, “well how low will you go then”.

Point being...once you start characterizing every living thing as “meat” where is the line drawn? Mans best friend, loyal companion animal is ok to eat? What about primates, intelligent closest relative of man?...why not humans?

We’ve spent a long time crawling out of savagery up to the (still) pathetic position we are currently in...why take a step backwards? The fact that someone had to ask the question (if serious) is disturbing.

Why not humans is simple. Humans are animals only in a biological sense. Obviously, human beings are on a completely different level than animals, including primates, widely accepted in just about any existing culture today. How certain animals have been bread and what characteristics have been assigned to them is not an objective measure of their worth and whether it is ethically OK to kill them. For me, no animal is only meat, just as no plant is only food. Still we have to eat.