Why Don't You Eat Cats and Dogs?

[PlutonianEmpire]

So, uh, are you going to kill all the indigenous tribes of the Cordillera Central mountain range anytime soon?

Yeah, I am.

Oops.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Here are lists. Get busy. And try not to cause nuclear winter while you're at it.

 

[innonimatu]

I have unwittingly eaten both dogs and cats and I disliked the taste (which is how I found out)

Yeah, I heard that cats are even worse than rabbit - and I very much dislike rabbit. I wouldn't be tempted to try cat.
Horse isn't bad, though.

Anyway, as Cheetah mentioned, it's probably a cultural thing.

 

[civplayah]

Because I'm vegetarian.

 

[Camikaze]

Also, you sure can. My mom ate her pet chicken.

This is an interesting point. I was going to bring a similar one up about the apparent contradiction between not eating pets and people eating chicken. Perhaps it's just that cats and dogs are seen as having more personality?

 

[_random_]

This is an interesting point. I was going to bring a similar one up about the apparent contradiction between not eating pets and people eating chicken. Perhaps it's just that cats and dogs are seen as having more personality?

I think that's more of a cultural thing based on what animals were domesticated for different purposes. Pigs have plenty have personality. If you were Aztec or Chinese, you'd likely say the same thing about dogs.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Reindeer tastes like venison right?

Why do you hate farmers? Most small farmers give their animals names and are their friends and treat them like family, and many eat their cow when it dies

see?

Who said I hate farmers? My ancestors were farmers for many centuries' worth of generations. My parents grew up on farms. When I was a baby, I was fed goats' milk because I was allergic to cows' milk. But I just can't imagine giving an animal that you're going to eat any sort of name, or think of it in any kind of way except dinner-to-be.

Would the vegetarians here give names to the plants in their carrot patch, or any other veggie they might grow?

i can haz kitten cheezburger?

There are some lols circulating where a cheezburger asks, "I can has cat?"

I most certainly will eat a sea kitten.

They are certainly not kittens of any sort.

This is an interesting point. I was going to bring a similar one up about the apparent contradiction between not eating pets and people eating chicken. Perhaps it's just that cats and dogs are seen as having more personality?

I don't consider chickens to be pets. Chickens are meant to be food, or breeders of future food.

I'm not saying that poultry can't have personality - my dad used to have his own mechanics business on our acreage when I was a child back in the '60s/early '70s. Sometimes people paid him "in kind." And one of these occasions resulted in our acquiring 3 adult geese and a gosling.

They all had separate, distinct personalities, and imprinted on my dad (most animals, doesn't seem to matter what species, like my dad). One night when he and my mom went for a walk down the lane, the geese all followed along behind them! We never did eat them, but I assume the person to whom my grandfather sold them probably did.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Blame the cultural upbringing and the association of cats and dogs as pets and not food, but I don't eat them because it's barbaric to me. They, or at least dogs, are friends, not a course at the dinner table. Would you eat your friends? (So many vore jokes to be had)

Of course, I'm picky about what kinds of meat I'll eat, so what do I know?

 

[civ_king]

Who said I hate farmers? My ancestors were farmers for many centuries' worth of generations. My parents grew up on farms. When I was a baby, I was fed goats' milk because I was allergic to cows' milk. But I just can't imagine giving an animal that you're going to eat any sort of name, or think of it in any kind of way except dinner-to-be.

Would the vegetarians here give names to the plants in their carrot patch, or any other veggie they might grow?


There are some lols circulating where a cheezburger asks, "I can has cat?"


They are certainly not kittens of any sort.


I don't consider chickens to be pets. Chickens are meant to be food, or breeders of future food.

I'm not saying that poultry can't have personality - my dad used to have his own mechanics business on our acreage when I was a child back in the '60s/early '70s. Sometimes people paid him "in kind." And one of these occasions resulted in our acquiring 3 adult geese and a gosling.

They all had separate, distinct personalities, and imprinted on my dad (most animals, doesn't seem to matter what species, like my dad). One night when he and my mom went for a walk down the lane, the geese all followed along behind them! We never did eat them, but I assume the person to whom my grandfather sold them probably did.

You name cows to tell them apart and so they respond to their names

And why would you name inanimate objects? it's not like they can respond or recognize their own names

Yeah, I heard that cats are even worse than rabbit - and I very much dislike rabbit. I wouldn't be tempted to try cat.
Horse isn't bad, though.
Rabbit prepared right is delicious
Anyway, as Cheetah mentioned, it's probably a cultural thing.

 

[Camikaze]

I don't consider chickens to be pets. Chickens are meant to be food, or breeders of future food.

Who determines whether an animal is 'meant to be' food or pet? Is there an exhaustive list of all the pet animals and if something isn't on it, it's fair game for dinner? What about rabbits, for example? Little fluffy bunnies are obviously 'meant to be' pets, but rabbits are also meant as food.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

And why would you name inanimate objects? it's not like they can respond or recognize their own names

I had a pet rock once. His name was Max. I was very fond of Max, and utterly livid when my grandmother threw him out.

I also gave one of the prickle-bushes in my front yard a name... I called it "George."

It was very therapeutic on the occasions when I took the pruning shears to George...

Who determines whether an animal is 'meant to be' food or pet? Is there an exhaustive list of all the pet animals and if something isn't on it, it's fair game for dinner? What about rabbits, for example? Little fluffy bunnies are obviously 'meant to be' pets, but rabbits are also meant as food.

Well, bunnies are pets, and wild rabbits are wild rabbits that will probably end up as food for some predator like a coyote, bobcat, or wolf. I've never eaten rabbit, and don't expect to.

 

[Narz]

Why Don't You Eat Cats and Dogs?

They don't sell them at the supermarket & I don't know any butchers.

Serious answer : because I rarely eat any land meat @ all & in general herbivores are better to eat than carnivores or scavengers. Also because I like cats & dogs. I don't think I would be less likely to eat them than a pig or a horse though. Chickens are fun to watch & take care of but they're not very likeable so I'd eat them.

 

[civ_king]

]I had a pet rock once. His name was Max. I was very fond of Max, and utterly livid when my grandmother threw him out.

I also gave one of the prickle-bushes in my front yard a name... I called it "George."

It was very therapeutic on the occasions when I took the pruning shears to George... [/U]


Well, bunnies are pets, and wild rabbits are wild rabbits that will probably end up as food for some predator like a coyote, bobcat, or wolf. I've never eaten rabbit, and don't expect to.

And that's all I'm going to say

 

[Valka D'Ur]

And that's all I'm going to say

Why does it offend you that I named my pet rock "Max"?

George was in the front yard, very close to both the public sidewalk and the walkway up to the house, and tended to grow like a proverbial weed. Since the prickles are painful on bare skin (and if they happen to poke through clothing), I had to keep pruning. But since I never owned electric shears or trimmers, I had to do it all by hand... and it took a long time.

Very therapeutic for a nice summer afternoon if I was in a bad mood and needed to work it off...

 

[civ_king]

Why does it offend you that I named my pet rock "Max"?

George was in the front yard, very close to both the public sidewalk and the walkway up to the house, and tended to grow like a proverbial weed. Since the prickles are painful on bare skin (and if they happen to poke through clothing), I had to keep pruning. But since I never owned electric shears or trimmers, I had to do it all by hand... and it took a long time.

Very therapeutic for a nice summer afternoon if I was in a bad mood and needed to work it off...

No, that you had a pet rock (srsly?)

I had that problem once, I got a race car engine (RC) and rigged it to a massive tin can lid (bondo+duct tape is your friend) and sawed it right off

PS you could have grabbed a big stick and smacked it off

 

[Mad Man]

If I'm not mistaken, it's also illegal to eat dogs and cats in the US.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

No, that you had a pet rock (srsly?)

I had that problem once, I got a race car engine (RC) and rigged it to a massive tin can lid (bondo+duct tape is your friend) and sawed it right off

PS you could have grabbed a big stick and smacked it off

Yes, I really did have a pet rock.

Sorry, I don't understand the rest of your post - I think you may have misunderstood what kind of bush George is - think hedge-type vegetation, except in a round shape, and planted in a corner of the yard where the public and private sidewalks meet. You know what it's like when people don't trim their hedges, right? The branches grow out and irritate people, and if they're especially prickly with pods, etc. it's extremely annoying.

So smacking any part of that with a big stick wouldn't have helped. And I didn't want to destroy the thing, just keep it trimmed.

 

[Shekwan]

I'd love to eat cats and dogs. I'd love to eat whale and dolphin too. I don't think its fair the Asians get to eat all this awesomeness while I have to put up with touchy feely animal rights douchebags here in Europe.

 

[bhsup]

I'd love to eat cats and dogs. I'd love to eat whale and dolphin too. I don't think its fair the Asians get to eat all this awesomeness while I have to put up with touchy feely animal rights douchebags here in Europe.

And I'll bet good money that there is some weird group in Europe that wants to legalize cannibalism.

 

[Dumanios]

I don't eat cats and dogs because Bacon, Steak, Hotdogs and Burgers are good enough.