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That's good news. Hopefully, once dog ownership moves beyond the elite and into the mainstream populace, having dogs for dinner will stop.
 
Part of me feels sad for the dogs, but that's just me talking as part of a society that treats them pretty damn good overall. Truth be told, I'd probably try it if a sample was given to me. Of course, I want to try me some fried up tarantula. That stuff looks like good eating.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Part of me feels sad for the dogs, but that's just me talking as part of a society that treats them pretty damn good overall. Truth be told, I'd probably try it if a sample was given to me. Of course, I want to try me some fried up tarantula. That stuff looks like good eating.
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I have a friend who's from Vietnam. We were talking about pets one day and I asked him: "you ever have a dog?"
He replied: "Yeah it was good" Took me a second to realize what he'd said...
 
I agree with @sharkboy1200 here. While I would never eat a dog, I don't think we should necessarily look down upon the people who do from other countries.
 
To be fair, this kind of stuff is born out of poor people eating on the cheap and tends to survive through the ages. Unless it becomes illegal to eat a dog, odds are it'll stick with the societies that eat them. Especially Vietnam.
 
I think it's a matter of how integrated they are into the society as pets, or to put it differently, how many people in the society love dogs. If they were widespread as pets, I don't think they'd be widespread as food. Sounds like it's changing a little in Vietnam, but only among a minority.
 
So hard to imagine it when many of us here have had very close relationships with dogs. I mean here you have a "pet" that in a lot of cases is a companion and would protect you from harm. I mean a dog would go at a bear for you ya know?

Can't eat that....just can't.
 
Anderson said:
I think it's a matter of how integrated they are into the society as pets, or to put it differently, how many people in the society love dogs. If they were widespread as pets, I don't think they'd be widespread as food. Sounds like it's changing a little in Vietnam, but only among a minority.
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I think it also has a lot to do with countries/societies that are still developing, places that are still third world or on the cusp of 2nd/1st world status. They still have large proportion of the population that is severly poor/uneducated that is still deeply rooted in superstition and arcane beliefs. Dogs are eaten for "good luck" (and most likely food too) rhino horns for "medicinal" uses etc...
 
Dread Fox said:
So hard to imagine it when many of us here have had very close relationships with dogs. I mean here you have a "pet" that in a lot of cases is a companion and would protect you from harm. I mean a dog would go at a bear for you ya know?

Can't eat that....just can't.
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There must not be any bears in Vietnam. That's the difference. Puzzle solved.
 
My friend once ate someone's pet dog when on army survival training in Germany. He clubbed it to death whilst hiding in the woods. He said the owner was walking around looking for it for ages.

He then boiled it and ate it.

To this day, he can't see why what he did was wrong.
 
Anyone see this episode of South Park?

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You can domesticate and/or "befriend" most of the animals we eat. People who own pigs are probably appalled by the nation's love for bacon or a slice of ham, then that same person might go for a box of chicken nuggets from a fast-food joint.

Animals are animals, and all taste good with the right sauce.
 
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Dread Fox said:
So hard to imagine it when many of us here have had very close relationships with dogs. I mean here you have a "pet" that in a lot of cases is a companion and would protect you from harm. I mean a dog would go at a bear for you ya know?

Can't eat that....just can't.
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I don't know... I mean, I could enjoy the pet for a while, and then make it my dinner. Don't have to worry about bear attacks, I'm a hairy man myself and they don't go after their own. Plus, I'm pretty Americans probably used to eat bear meat on the reg. Back in "Ye Olde" days.
 
The article has a bit of a hateful undertone towards the Koreans for eating dogs, and they act as if his love for his dog any relation to his eating of dogs. I think America makes too big of a deal out of eating dogs. A dog is a mammal just like a cow, a horse, a fish, and everything else. A cultural barrier seems to prevent America from being more understanding of other nations.
 
Kassen said:
The article has a bit of a hateful undertone towards the Koreans for eating dogs, and they act as if his love for his dog any relation to his eating of dogs. I think America makes too big of a deal out of eating dogs. A dog is a mammal just like a cow, a horse, a fish, and everything else. A cultural barrier seems to prevent America from being more understanding of other nations.
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I didn't sense any "hateful undertone" in the article. It quoted a couple opponents of eating dogs, but it presented the other side, too.

To say "a dog is a mammal just like a cow, a horse, a fish..." is, first of all, evidence that you need to reread your Biology 101 text, and second, missing an important piece of the puzzle here. For tens of thousands of years, dogs have had an extremely unique relationship with human beings. There is no other animal that has integrated so tightly into human society and become more a part of its family life than dogs. To dismiss that history is misguided. If membership in the "mammal" class was all it required to get on the menu, might as well put babies on the list. It's not about membership in the mammal class; it's about the relationship we have with them. As I mentioned, dogs are in a very unique position, in that regard.
 
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Koreans? Did you read the article, it's about the Vietnamese penchant for dog.

Of course there is going to be a barrier between first world and second/third world societies/cultures. Americans, for generations, have never known the types of poverty that many of the worlds population endure (and what they do to survive), and living in a secular state, makes many Americans ignorant and intolerant to cultural/religious practices/beliefs...
 
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