Assuming the animal has been bred for food and wasn’t a pet, I wouldn’t, but I’m sure I’m in the minority. Would you? If so, how is a dog different from a pig, sheep, or cow?
Dog must be very popular if you need reservations.
Well, I’ve seen what they’re willing to eat.
I would not eat dog. They are considered taboo among my people.
Assuming it was raised humanely for consumption purposes I’d have no particular qualms about eating dog.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to “oh, it’s so cute!” I don’t eat mammals and those reasons are just taken one level up by raising carnivores as a food source.
But no, dogs aren’t, to my thinking, in a category unique from cows, pigs, sheep, etc.
If I was hungry enough, no. Hell, if I was starving I would try longpig.
I would and have when I was in the Western Pacific. The village had a celebration and it was the main course. I would have insulted the population of the entire island if I would have refused. I have also eaten cow, pig, fish, lamb, horse, mule, buffalo, monkey among others. It’s a meat.
I would, because, well, I like 'em. Cats, on the other hand…
Just so long as it isn’t my dog, sure, I’ll try a piece.
I’ll take the opposite view of Mr. McClure here, whom I know from such films as Alice’s Adventure Through the Windshield Glass and The Revenge of Abe Lincoln.
I hate dogs and wouldn’t have any qualms with eating dog meat, provided it’s cooked decently.
Cats I won’t eat.
I have, when I lived in Korea. The soup was pretty good, but the dog meat was rather fatty… I wasn’t that impressed.
I have been led to believe I have had dog meat in a stew, while eating at friends of my grandmothers in Browning, Montana.
I don’t know if it’s true or not.
An NPR reporter spent some time in S. Korea, and before he left, he asked a friend if it was true, and where he could go to eat dog meat. After he’d been in the restaurant for awhile, he noticed there were only men there. He asked the waiter why. He was told that dog was eaten as an aphrodisiac for men, and that nobody eats dog for any other reason. He was also told that the meat was not from pets, or from street dogs. Large dogs are raised for meat.
So, it’s not Cocker au Vin.
Wasn’t Eating Dog one of the characters in Little Big Man? That might have been before there were reservations.
I don’t have any problems with eating dog.
I would have a problem. I could probably do it, but I won’t seek out the experience.
I don’t mind the aspect of dogs being pets or companions. I’ve had dogs before.
But I just think of a dog as a “dirty” animal. I know, makes no sense - the animals I do eat certainly aren’t any “cleaner”. But I have a mental association of dog=unclean.
Probably the same mental process (in other humans) that lead to religious prohibitions on certain foods.
Dogs do have personality, though. And personality goes a long way.
I’d probably skip dog. But guinea pig would be fine. Next time I’m in Peru…
Nope, couldn’t do it. I think it’s because I have known dogs as individual personalities. I couldn’t eat horse either, for the same reason.
I have never been personaly involved with a cow, pig, chicken or other typical farm animal. If I was, I guess I’d become vegitarian!
No, there were reservations back then. The Lakota just didn’t want to live on them. rimshot
So if a pig had a nice personality, he would cease to be unclean?