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Originally Posted by Teresa Ford  All depends on what your parents do.
Some cultures routinely eat dogs, cats, insects, and other things we would gag over. Others worship cows and even drink their urine. On PBS I saw people bow down to rats and serve them milk on silver plates. Some people eat monkeys, others worship them. Even some very well known religions believe that eating pigs (pork) is forbidden and a sin. How we think about animals usually has to do with religion and or our culture. |
I agree with this, it's extremely foreign for us to consider our babies as food.
However, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think we're barbaric for slaughtering cows, horses, lamb, and chickens.
But I think the real issue here, is how animals destined for slaughter houses are treated. I have no problem acknowledging that some animals are a part of our food chain (there are some animals I'll eat and some I wont), but the welfare of these animals must be considered from the day they are born to the day they are slaughtered (including the way they are slaughtered).
With the case of these dogs, the post said many of the dogs were in such terrible condition or already dead
I would not want a company feeding me beef from a cow that rode on a truck for a few hours already dead and not properly frozen/refrigerated.
In the McLibel case (just watched the video McLibel it's great if anyone wants to watch the horrors of McDonalds and how two environmentalists won against them) they proved McDonalds had inhumane practices at slaughter houses for chickens that were destined for our nuggets and other chicken products.
If any culture is going to eat meat, they must do so in a humane way, the care of these animals may not need to be at the level we treat out pets (although my great grampy used to let us name and hand feed veggies to the cows we'd later eat each year) but they should be handled appropriately to assure the animal does not suffer while it's destined for a plate.
On that note, I totally would NEVER eat dog, cat, or horse meat
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