Wouldn’t surprise me if in the future we in America will be eating dogs. We can barely afford beef now. We eat a lot of chicken.
I have always said that if I really thought about animals being killed for food and how they are killed, I would probably be a vegetarian. I have never raised an animal to eat but have family who has. I do not want to personally know my food. Hypocritical, maybe, but true.
I grew up a Boy Scout, and had that insane Scoutmaster who showed us how to kill and prepare meat from geese and chickens, and had us do it. All I figured was that, if I’m hungry, I’ve gotta do what I’ve got to do.
I was slaughtering and dressing out chickens when I was not yet a teenager. Then we cooked and ate the chickens. They are food. A hen is about as personable as a lizard ~ maybe less so.
Obviously prices vary according to locality, but chuck steak is about $2 a pound on sale in NYC. I can't imagine it's more expensive elsewhere.
Unless you're going after strays (which would quickly disappear if the public acquired a taste for dog as a kind of game meat), dogs are way more expensive than cattle to raise for meat. This is true everywhere dog meat is sold for human consumption. And it makes sense. Dogs eat meat, whereas cattle eat grass or grain, which are cheaper than meat.
Lewis and Clark did well on dog meat. They preferred it to horse meat!
From the movie HOMBRE...
Woman: I would never eat dog!
Hombre: When you are hungry enough you will eat dog, and fight over the bones!
Then there is that dog eating scene in KING RAT.