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First of all, this is not a food "fad", they have been eating dog for a very very long time. Secondly, the thought only detests you because you've been raised in a culture where we don't eat dogs. If you are hungry enough, any animal is fair game, unless, one is a vegetarian. Then one would probably choose to starve.

It detests me because I know that my dogs, if need be, would die for me. I don't think you get that with chickens or cows. (I'm not too sure about hogs, but I don't eat much pork.)

I know that the relationship between humans and their dogs is not the same as between humans and their children, but there is a level and depth to the human/canine relationship that is profound and real. It is from that place that my revulsion for this story comes from.

If you,or anyone else reading my post, are unaware of this relationship, then I feel pity for you and am truly sorry for what your soul is missing. These are nothing but my humble opinions, of course,so please feel free to flame away.

Some animals have the capacity to touch a part of our soul that we never knew existed.

the thought only detests you

Uhm, sport, I didn't say it detested me.

While you're at it, what are the winning numbers for the next Lotto drawing?

Now get off your high horse.

The French eat horse, btw, but I'm sure you knew that too.

Secondly, the thought only detests you because you've been raised in a culture where we don't eat dogs. If you are hungry enough, any animal is fair game, unless, one is a vegetarian.

Not too many people who aren't sadistic psychopaths would kill their food by stringing it up by the neck and beating it to death. The more brutal and painful the better according to these "people".

"First of all, this is not a food "fad", they have been eating dog for a very very long time. Secondly, the thought only detests you because you've been raised in a culture where we don't eat dogs. If you are hungry enough, any animal is fair game, unless, one is a vegetarian. Then one would probably choose to starve."

Geez, what a thread.
Now, the thought does NOT only detest me because I've been raised in a culture where we don't eat dogs. It detests me that they torture the animals first, because they think (and I use that word loosely) that this somehow will make a more tender chunk of meat on their plates. I was raised in a culture where we DO eat cows, and I would feel the same way if cows were tortured before being slaughtered.

And all this "well, it's their culture!" crap doesn't cut it either. I suppose it's also okay to kill baby girls because "it's their culture!" or for those fellows in certain fourth world countries to slaughter children for voodoo ceremonies... well, you know, it's their "culture," you know... what right do WE have to judge? Ak. You sound like a bunch of pathetic liberals.

... And no one said that it was a choice between eating dog or dying. You seem to have pulled that one out of thin air. Given a choice between eating dog or dying, well, I'd probably eat dog too (and I'd bet most vegetarians would TOO) ...but that's not the point, because that's not the situation these people find themselves in.