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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Hot Dogs, Literally.
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Recently, a barrage of comments stormed through our recent post about how there is no ethical justification for eating meat. These meat lovers defended their animal eating, often angrily, with several pontificating about how delicious they find cooked flesh. That’s why, today, we are pleased to highlight this website, with several graphic photos (yes, we include them here!) about the food dog industry in Asia.
That’s a recently slaughtered dog, on its way to someone’s plate. Can you imagine all those delicious dog body parts, with barbecue sauce? Do you have a pet dog? Do you want to eat it? Why not? Why are dogs any more precious than pigs? If all pigs were house trained, and could do tricks, would you feel different about bacon?
Think of all the products we could make from dog hide:
Why is this different from leather, or pig skin, or anything else of the sort? Why not keep chickens as pets in the backyard—maybe in a chicken tractor—while eating fried dog?
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19 Apr 2008 at 02:48 pm | #
Actually, Dean, many of the leather shoes that come from Asian countries do contain dog hide.
19 Apr 2008 at 04:37 pm | #
Veg*n,
Can you please provide some sort of link to support that comment? I’m interested to know more.
19 Apr 2008 at 04:54 pm | #
I know I’ve read a news article about it before, but this is about all I could find on google:
http://living.oneindia.in/beauty/brutal-fashion.html
19 Apr 2008 at 05:01 pm | #
Here is an article about dog leather and dog fur in clothes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/16/animalwelfare.italy
I think it is much more widespread than many believe. If a shoe company can obtain dog leather many times cheaper, and nobody would know the difference, I see no reason why they wouldn’t.
I wonder how many people around town are “wearing dog”.
19 Apr 2008 at 05:11 pm | #
Post as many of these as you can find! Great stuff!
19 Apr 2008 at 05:24 pm | #
Here is one more:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/leather.html
19 Apr 2008 at 05:45 pm | #
Since I was one of the people who commented on how much I love meat because it is so tasty and delicious, I will respond.
The reason we don’t eat dogs in America is because we as a culture have deemed it inappropriate to do so. This is the same reason marrying one’s cousins is deemed taboo or discussing how much one makes at their job. Eating pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, and fish are deemed okay in this society because it is the norm. Most people don’t eat squirrell, but there is a sub-section of this country who still do. I grew up next to a lady who did so. I never tasted it because I thought it was disgusting, that was my viewpoint, but hers differed. I never tried to convince her though that eating squirrell was wrong or unethical or in my opinion, disgusting.
Your viewpoints are that eating meat should not be the norm. Unfortunately, you are in the minority of this viewpoint and you know it. Creating three-pronged litmus tests to defend your position may well suit those who agree with you. But arguing that we wouldn’t eat our mothers or that today Jesus wouldn’t eat meat doesn’t cut it logically either. I find it hilarious that you chastize me for not defending my viewpoint logically when you are basing 1/3 of your arugment on a mythical person and his purported future actions in a completely hypothetical situation. You’re arguments would be better served to try to convince meat eaters to stop because of the deplorable conditions in which these animals grow and in which they are slaughtered. Convince people to watch or read Fast Food Nation which does a good job of exploring the issues you bring up.
Too bad we never got to have eggs together.
19 Apr 2008 at 06:00 pm | #
Who Cares?
With your acute intellectual prowess, surely you can rise above the petty constraints of cultural boundaries. What have such imaginary rules to do with true culinary experience?
I suggest you go to the pound, find a canine that is destined to the incinerator anyway, and try your hand at grilled dog.
I mean, there is not an ethical argument against such behavior, as far as you are concerned. In fact, one might be able to make the case that eating dogs otherwise destined for the incinerator at least puts their flesh to use. Think of all that lost meat, going to waste each year. All the leather, too.
19 Apr 2008 at 06:02 pm | #
The chickens were liberated to Parky’s Farm. When we put the old house for sale, wife insisted we not have chickens in the yard.
20 Apr 2008 at 01:10 pm | #
Why are dogs any more precious than pigs? If all pigs were house trained, and could do tricks, would you feel different about bacon?
Obviously Dean has never read A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck. Awesome book. Pet pig gets eaten though.
Ah well.
Gosh I love barbecue sauce.
20 Apr 2008 at 06:47 pm | #
LOL. Puts a new spin on the phrase “Man my dogs are tired.”
I’ll agree there is very little difference between eating dog & other US standard fair meats other than cultural taboo.
Also, according to this ( http://www.slate.com/id/2060840/ )
it is legal to eat dog in 44 states of the US.
Dean - To bad you are so heavily against killing animals for utilitarian purposes. Can you image the stir you would make if you were serving up free samples of fido on Fountain Square?
21 Apr 2008 at 05:50 am | #
funnelcake,
Is dog meat legal in Ohio?
It would be a great statement for the SPCA to make—serving up dog meat on Fountain Square. I mean, that’s a lot of meat to waste since people don’t want to take care of the animals anyway. They are going to die, anyway. They were not raised for the purpose, injected with hormones, and they have already consumed food. We’re just throwing away all that meat.
SPCA should serve grilled dog meat on FSQ.
22 Apr 2008 at 12:25 pm | #
Dean,
How practical would it be to invest in an industry for harvesting dog meat from condemned animals?
Cows and pigs are rather rich in their meat whereas dogs are a lot leaner. Seems like it’d be a lot of work for little reward.
What statement would the SPCA be making by serving up dog meat? how would that further their cause?