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Monday, April 21, 2008
SPCA should serve dog meat on Fountain Square
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Photo courtesy of here.
Each year, millions of unwanted animals are put to death, since the shelters cannot hold all of them. Some sources put the daily average at 10,000 animal deaths per day. Just think of all that wasted meat. What if it were possible to raise awareness of this epidemic problem about animal treatment, while at the same time finding a use for all that flesh destined for an incinerator? That’s why SPCA should serve dog meat at an event on Fountain Square.
Would people find the concept outrageous? Good. That would, perhaps, help reduce the number of unwanted animals put to death daily.
Would people find the dog meat delicious? Good. At least that dog meat meal will be from flesh that would have gone to total waste anyway.
That’s why I just sent the following email to SPCA:
To Whom It May Concern:
I know part of your mission is to raise awareness about those animals who are treated cruelly. At the same time, I know you put down animals—whose bodies are destined for either an incinerator or burial.
I’d like to suggest you do something more productive with all that wasted pet-flesh: host an awareness event on Fountain Square where you serve cooked dog meat, for the curious to try.
Will this inspire people to become outraged? Good! The mistreatment of animals is worthy of outrage. Will is raise your organization’s awareness? Good! Your organization can always use more awareness.
And the perfect thing is that no animals will be “slaughtered,” so to speak, since you will serve only meat destined for destruction anyway.
Thanks, in advance, for your consideration, and I look forward to studying your reply.
Respectfully,
The Dean of Cincinnati
Naturally, I will keep you posted about any response they may send pertaining to this potential upcoming culinary and awareness-raising event.
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21 Apr 2008 at 07:28 am | #
Should the S.P.C.A. serve dog meat on Fountain Square?
NO.
Enough of your meat and aniamal silliness!
Why don’t you chime in on something more important, such as the
suggestion of Section-8 housing at the Banks.
21 Apr 2008 at 10:47 am | #
Deano,
I just worked the Pet Expo with a grooming and pet day spa. They took in 3 dogs from the SPCA that were just taken from intake in terrible condition. And I mean terrible condition.
All the dogs had names but one that we took to calling Old Dead Dog- ODDIE. Let me tell you about an experience that brought tears to this hard heart of mine.
Oddie was obviously abused and had several puncture wounds and was filled with worms. She was timid and scared to death. She smelled like a urine and feces infested whore. After 8 baths- yes 8- and a grooming done by a Certified Master Groomer, she was another dog! Oddie- was renamed- Mattie- for all the matts that we pulled out of her coat. We saved all of her coat and didn’t just shave her down. She was patient and calm the entire time. She didn’t even try to bite us when we clipped her nails!
When she arrived at Convention Center- I was holding her. A couple walked up to her and wanted her immediately. The bond was so strong that she just jumped into their arms. Old Dead Dog was now kissing and loving the husband. The problem was- she had to go thru a fashion show to be auctioned off- and several people wanted her. This couple did all they could to get Mattie.
End of story- they got to take Mattie home. She has gone to the Vet-is worm free- the puncture wounds are now healing- and she is happy and walking around wagging her tail constantly.
This dog could have been put down easily because of the condition she was brought in. But if you haven’t talked to the people at the SPCA- they are working VERY hard to become a no kill shelter. They are now enlisting all of the area groomers to take at least 2 dogs a week to help out to make them adoptable.
Of the 3 dogs that were done by this shop- all 3 were adopted within less than 10 minutes. So do some research before you start to bash. And what is it with shoving Vegan morals at us.
Work on something doable- like the Cat Forclosure Project. Those people need help. Hell even right wing Ben Stein did a great piece this week on 60 Minutes this week.
21 Apr 2008 at 11:40 am | #
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Sounds like a great export business opportunity ?
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21 Apr 2008 at 12:21 pm | #
Dean --
They do serve hotdogs at the stadium. But I guess you are not talking frankfurters. Are you proposing that daschund be served. What kind of mustard goes with a hotdog dog?
21 Apr 2008 at 04:29 pm | #
Whoa Doggies:
Who have I bashed? SPCA is not a no-kill shelter. I’m not saying anything bad about the fact that they have to put certain animals down. But why should that animal flesh be wasted? And think about it nationwide? All that meat, for nothing.
21 Apr 2008 at 04:57 pm | #
But will they serve them with barbecue sauce?
21 Apr 2008 at 07:37 pm | #
The reason this wouldn’t work is that the dog meat would still be full of blood. Unfortunately, the animals who are killed in the slaughterhouse aren’t just “put to sleep” like dogs are at an animal shelter. A euthanized dog’s meat is still full of blood, and basically inedible.
OTOH, farm animals have their throats slits and bleed to death. This allows their heart to pump all of the blood out of their bodies, and remove it from the meat.
22 Apr 2008 at 12:13 am | #
I hear Taco Bell serves Chihuahua on the daily.
I can see the slogan now:
“SERVE CINCINNATI---EAT A GERMAN SHEPHERD!” and on FOUNTAIN SQUARE, no doubt!
Can’t get more NASTY ‘NATI than that! (LOL!!!)
22 Apr 2008 at 05:18 am | #
We get it TDG, you find animal slaughter and torture funny. We get it. I’m sure there’s an equally crass comeback to belittle an issue that makes your heart cry but few would be so insensitive.
22 Apr 2008 at 07:12 am | #
Yawn.
So now you’re a petty muckraker. And not even a very good muckraker.
22 Apr 2008 at 07:27 am | #
CincySuz,
Look, I know what it takes to kill the cows and pigs I eat and it ain’t pretty. (Mmmm, bacon. Damn, I need breakfast now, thanks.) Hell I used to chase down and wring the necks of chickens for Sunday dinner for my grandmother as a little girl visiting her summers in Tennessee. And I never had a problem eating the chicken after either.
On the flip side of that coin, I happen to have two dogs and they are in no danger of being eaten with barbecue sauce and if anything happened to them, I would be heartbroken. They are members of my family and I love them dearly.
So before you get to painting me as a heartless bitch who thinks cruelty to animals is funny think again. At worst I’m a tad ambivalent about this issue because I like steak. I could never eat a dog, but I know that it’s years of social conditioning more than anything else. Raised in another culture, I might feel differently and you might too.
Just like I’m sure there are people in India who freak out when they find out we eat cows right out in the open, which I’m told their culture reveres (and even they backslide with thousands of secret slaughterhouses to make a profit on the side).
I guess I just see this as one more thing where white folks get a notion and then try to impose their ideals on everyone else without considering the long term consequences for everyone, not just them. And when all else fails, it never hurts to turn it into a moral issue and point fingers at people saying, “how can you condone killing the cutsey wootsey lizzel puppy wuppy”.
Which is your exact response to me just like Dean’s post here. At least his first post had some very compelling facts about meat consumption, grain production and how the current global meat market is contributing to world famine (damn, I was actually paying attention to all that? Who knew?)
But this post, and your response to my comment: sheer emotionalism. Shock value doesn’t do it for me. Dean can print all the gross out pictures he wants and I’m still going to eat chicken tomorrow. And mets. Oh and I’m making pot roast this Sunday. Gosh, I love pot roast… what the hell did I do with that bacon....
22 Apr 2008 at 10:24 pm | #
oh jason.
23 Apr 2008 at 05:34 am | #
TDG - Do you know what words mean? You’ve been anything but ambivalent. Read over your comments. You’ve been straight up, head-on, unequivocally pro-animal abuse, anti-environment. Pro-me and screw anybody else on this earth. Fond memories of wringing chicken’s necks. Continuously making idiotic comments about being hungry when the subject of animal torture is raised. A “heartless bitch that thinks cruelty to animals is funny”? I don’t use the word bitch, ever.
I know that there are many black people involved in a myriad of social, environmental and other issues to make the earth a more livable and less cruel place. Just because you don’t care, don’t try to wrap it in the race blanket you wear expecting that no one will challenge you and that you and you alone are the representative and heartbeat of black America. Your views are totally instep with most of white America. But then again, if it’s just white people bringing to the forefront issues of the environment and the animal abuse you so revel in, thanks white folks. We appreciate you. Somebody’s got to care.
23 Apr 2008 at 05:43 am | #
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23 Apr 2008 at 06:56 am | #
From your same article
You know why companies are spending thousands of dollars into green technologies more than ever. Because they have been shown that it is economically viable. The same is true for a vegatarian lifestyle. It costs more. So when the price of a veggie burger is less than the price of a hamburger at McDonalds, you might see more people eating vegetarian. It’s easy when the “healthy” option is the same price as the non healthy one...not so easy when you are already making the choice between buying food and buying gas.
Something some people could learn from. In all cases, not just veg/meat debate, I would rather you show me the way by example and by showing me the benefits/drawbacks economically, physically and otherwise than by scare tactics and berating me to do what you do b/c you think you have all the answers.
23 Apr 2008 at 08:11 am | #
The memory about the chickens and my grandmother wasn’t so much a fond memory as it was a memory about being willing to do what it takes to put food on the table and learning that lesson at an early age.
Have you ever read “Prodigal Summer” by Barbara Kingsolver. Actually, here’s an excerpt via google that explains exactly what I’m talking about. She explains it much better than I could and in fewer words than I’m capable of. Be grateful for the link...it saved you from a much longer and bitchier post.
23 Apr 2008 at 09:34 am | #
Bill Sloat--
DAMN YOU for your dauschund comment!!!
What kind of person could possibly even consider eating such cuteness???
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/144919796_59f8258aef_m.jpg
23 Apr 2008 at 11:23 am | #
Oh no she didn’t! Did you accuse ME of sheer emotionalism? I just clicked your name and it took me to a website devoted exclusively to what? ThatDeborahGirl’s emotions. An entire website devoted to every feeling, thought and description imaginable. Someone less egocentric might put the breaks on some of the content, realizing no one else could possibly be interested in certain personal topics. And you claim shock value doesn’t do it for you?
Practice a little altruism. Maybe get out of your own head a bit and realize we all share this planet. Think about the common good. Trodding upon the weak and defenseless doesn’t make you more powerful. It makes you a bully.
23 Apr 2008 at 03:45 pm | #
We NEED a Chinese carry out there.
Do it!
23 Apr 2008 at 08:44 pm | #
Jason- read what I wrote- with the move to the new building the SPCA is WORKING at becoming a no kill shelter. I will tell you in some instances- the animals come in such a condition that death is a much better alternative.
I was serious- think about a dog or cat without food and water for 2 months and still alive living on toilet bowl water- and eating whatever they find. These animals can NOT be rehabed back. And if you think that they can- you need to donate $$$ and time to the shelters. Don’t think I saw you at the Furr Ball a few weeks ago.
Just like the million Pitbulls and Am.Staffs running around this city- that are not registered-they can not afford to take them in. It takes several thousands of dollars in surgery to repair some of these dogs that are found or brought in. Now want to jump on the fund raising bandwagon and help out instead of whinning about eating dog and boring us to death with Vegan vs Non-Vegan post.
This is an election year- there has to be news on the Wulsin front, and on the local presidential front- or is it easier to just sit at home and write this stuff with the baby? Maybe hire a few stringers to help out. PLEASE. ENOUGH.
25 Apr 2008 at 12:10 am | #
Looks tastey! Just add some Skyline!!!
25 Apr 2008 at 08:20 am | #
CinySue
The Dean displaying a picture of a dog on a bun and declaring that we kill it and eat it, in light of our society that decidedly feels this would be wrong, however anyone may other wise feel about meat consumption - yes, that is sheer emotionalism and what I can only hope to perceive as possibly gallows humor. That you should be so disingenuously outraged that I should respond in kind- yes, that is sheer emotionalism
For I simply do not think that you actually believe I condone cruelly torturing dogs and only when we’re done torturing it, do we finally kill it and consume whatever is left. I just don’t think you do.
So maybe the worst I can be accused of is not viewing this issue of not eating meat in the same light you do. Granted. But you have done nothing in this thread to defend your position that meat eating is wrong.
You’ve spent most of the time arguing and whining about a small, tactless and slightly humorous comment I made about barbecue sauce. You’ve told me how heartless I am because I won’t consider the puppies. You’ve said blatantly that I must find animal torture “funny” which. And then when I still didn’t seem to budge anywhere near your way of thinking, you responded with a personal critique of my blog that was still nowhere near on topic and wrong to boot.
So yes, I’m accusing you of sheer emotionalism in this thread. Would that we could return to the day we we were on one accord; alas, the solidarity could not endure..
You want me to consider being a vegetarian? Convince me, don’t insult me.
25 Apr 2008 at 11:12 pm | #
Look. You’ve stepped to the forefront to ridicule and belittle the vegetarianism position so don’t feign outrage when that’s pointed out. They’re your words. Own them. I certainly have posed my primary opposition to eating meat and that’s the hideous and inhumane treatment of the animals. I’ve said it again and again. Simple and yes emotional. And that’s what drives all people to work for change and people to change. Anger. Outrage. Empathy. Sympathy. Sorrow. The environmental impact and reasons to stop raising animals for food are also compelling.
So here. Take your choice.
How to Win an Argument With a Meat Eater
http://www.newveg.av.org/argument.htm