Lassie, she's not just for supper anymore

[Z A C K]

I like Alligator.

 

[BDaddyK]

I like Alligator.

I had alligator when I went to Gatorland in Florida when I was a kid. I thought it was pretty good

 

[Z A C K]

Yeah I had it in Florida too a while back. From what I remember it tasted like steak.

 

[Kassen]

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.

There were definitely hateful undertones. And the dog is not in some largely unique relationship with the world for the past tens of thousands of years. We've used dogs for hunting, cows for producing milk, and horsing were used for transportation all for thousands of years. And I never thought I would see a human being such as you to fallaciously infer that to justify eating animals is to justify cannibalizing our own young. It's taboo to eat cow in the East; it's taboo to eat cats and dogs in the West. It's all the same. Why don't you show me somehow how we have had this unique relationship with dogs for the past tens of thousands of years and show me show eating a dogs is anything like eating babies as you say.

 

[Andy]

There were definitely hateful undertones. And the dog is not in some largely unique relationship with the world for the past tens of thousands of years. We've used dogs for hunting, cows for producing milk, and horsing were used for transportation all for thousands of years. And I never thought I would see a human being such as you to fallaciously infer that to justify eating animals is to justify cannibalizing our own young. It's taboo to eat cow in the East; it's taboo to eat cats and dogs in the West. It's all the same. Why don't you show me somehow how we have had this unique relationship with dogs for the past tens of thousands of years and show me show eating a dogs is anything like eating babies as you say.

Nah, you're just being overly reactive. The article quoted some people who were against eating dogs, and it covered the other side, too. Hardly, a "hateful" article.

And yes, the dog does have a very unique relationship with human beings, and yes, it goes back thousands of years. This is fairly common knowledge and not something I feel I need to prove to you. If you don't believe it, I won't bother to try to convince you, cite sources, etc. I'll just suggest you do some reading on it. A bit of reflection and observation would do, too.

I was arguing from absurdity, with the comment about babies. You're the one saying all mammals are the same. I was pointing out the absurdity of that statement.

You're getting a little wound up here, so take a breath, ok? It's just an abstract discussion.

 

[Kassen]

Nah, you're just being overly reactive. The article quoted some people who were against eating dogs, and it covered the other side, too. Hardly, a "hateful" article.

And yes, the dog does have a very unique relationship with human beings, and yes, it goes back thousands of years. This is fairly common knowledge and not something I feel I need to prove to you. If you don't believe it, I won't bother to try to convince you, cite sources, etc. I'll just suggest you do some reading on it. A bit of reflection and observation would do, too.

I was arguing from absurdity, with the comment about babies. You're the one saying all mammals are the same. I was pointing out the absurdity of that statement.

You're getting a little wound up here, so take a breath, ok? It's just an abstract discussion.

Just like other animals in existence for which we all had relationship with, but you said "tens of thousands of years" which is a big difference and is not common knowledge. You haven't said anything about how a man hunting with a dog is different from a man riding a horse. You are the one overreacting here. I say mammals are eatable, and you go off on this radical, unrelated theory of yours that it must mean I approve of cannibalism of human babies. Next time you go on the offensive, have the proof laid out first and lay off the fallacious analogies about cannibalism.

 

[Z A C K]

I think this thread needs a little something something to break the tension:

 

[Andy]

dawww...

Just like other animals in existence for which we all had relationship with, but you said "tens of thousands of years" which is a big difference and is not common knowledge. You haven't said anything about how a man hunting with a dog is different from a man riding a horse. You are the one overreacting here. I say mammals are eatable, and you go off on this radical, unrelated theory of yours that it must mean I approve of cannibalism of human babies. Next time you go on the offensive, have the proof laid out first and lay off the fallacious analogies about cannibalism.

Ok, then.

I'm going to go have a baby sandwich.