Švejk reckons there is no ignorance involved…I reckon there is. Are you denying the statements in my quoted post above (#60), indicate a certain level of ignorance?
Lots of people believe in lots of different properties of lots of different foods. Plenty of people believe that oysters are an aphrodisiac. Do you maintain that people *only * eat oysters out of ignorance?
You cited Buddhists, who dislike or even reject the eating of meat, and some animal rights-focused Koreans in general, while HazelNutCoffee said Koreans have in more recent years begun to adopt the keeping of dogs as pets. I’m a vegetarian, but we can’t say “well, American vegetarians say that eating meat is bad so therefore no one should eat any meat, and you’re all a bunch of backwards primitives to be eating like that.” (Well, some vegetarians say that but they’re assholes, mostly.)
And as a vegetarian I’d prefer that no one ate meat but I realize that’s a pie-in-the-sky wish, and I even buy it and cook it for omnivores. My husband is one so I cook meat nearly every day.
Generally speaking, humans don’t eat carnivores, at least as staples. It just dosesn’t make sense from a production point of view. The purpose of meat animals is to transform plants into protein, so eating an animal that only conumes meat is adding an unnecessary step to the process. It just doesn’t make caloric sense.
If someone already made this point, please ignore.
Of the actual benefits of eating dog, if there are any, other than it filling a hole in your stomach many other animals could fullfil. As indicated here;
It seems only the older, more traditionalist Koreans are clinging to this practice, and for pathetic sexual gratification purposes, at that. Is that not ignorance?
Perhaps, but if a complete and accurate understanding of the nutritional benefits of the foodstuffs we consume is required in order to eat them, I daresay the vast majority of the population would starve. Besides, even if there’s no benefit aside from mere nutrition, so what? We (as a species) eat a lot of things that are significantly more harmful to health than canis familiaris.
I know, but how many of them make you feel you are getting unconditional love from them? Pigs might be able to do it, but I couldn’t strike up much of a relationship with anything else that ends up on my plate. And none of them would be allowed to get on my sofa with me!
I don’t know, but Alessan has suggested that humans eating carnivores doesn’t seem to be an optimum process. I suppose you could breed veggie dogs to overcome that, but I’d still turn it down as a dish, unless it was a matter of life and death…
If only people would get sensible about nutrition and farming methods and stop eating mammals in favor of the much-more-nutritiousinsects with which our fruitful planet has blessed us. There is a great deal of ignorance about what we choose to eat based on tradition. And don’t get me started on dairy products.
Tell us again about ignorance in eating habits, won’t you? And how we know better around these here parts.
This is the most consistent point against eating dogs.
Other than that, I see no problem in eating dogs, baby seals, live lobsters, whatever, as long as it is tastes good.
Exception? Cannibalism might be off-limits, of course, but then again, if someone comes up with something that “tastes like people” (Hufu - Human Tofu, perhaps) I see no reason why not give a try. I am actually curious about what it should taste like. Also if there is some difference between man and woman and among races.