Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: Ausm
Originally posted by: compnovice
Hot Dog.....
FTW
People who eat dogs should be shot!
Ausm
Why is it wrong to eat dogs but okay to eat cows and pigs? I remember people on my university campus handing out flyers condemning the eating of horses- I can almost gaurantee all of them ate meat.
This issue is the result of the historical reason for the given animal's domestication. On one hand, you have animals bred via artificial selection as pets. On the other, animals bred as livestock. The difference, while lost on the naive and ignorant, is clear to most in the developed world and, as such, results in the societal pressures to not eat dogs and to eat cows.
In addition, most individuals either own, have owned, or know someone that owns or has owned a pet, and this proximity to a domesticated pet has the same effect. In the third world and with the lower classes, the desire for survival may supercede the desire to conform with societal norms, hence, some eat domesticated pets.