Would u eat Chinese food if it actually was made from dog

Or cat?

I still would, it's fucking delicious :)

Sure, why not? As long as it's not somebody's pet. Meat is meat although I'd rather not eat human.

Depends how clean the animal was just like other meat. I wouldn't feel bad about eating a cat or dog, though.

I don't eat cute animals.

Nope

@thegerg: Interesting; where was this?

Dog, cat, Horse, dolphin, whatever... those arent special to be excluded from all the other animals we eat.

No one should care what the animal is, what we should care is if it taste good and what meals can be made out of it.

@thegerg: A new experience and nobody died; I call it a success ;-)

@thegerg: That's even better!

Yes I would. I'll eat a cats ass if you cook it right.

Um no... I have some standards.

Nope, had a pet dog he was awesome..would never eat a dog/cat. My dad has though, he'd eaten dog, cat, monkey, snakes, monitor lizard, fruit bats. :P

Well, I'd try it once (assuming that it's legal and conforms to all necessary health codes). Whether or not I'd try it again depends on how delicious it is. Which I have no idea about, since I've never eaten dog or cat.

for dogs...no,neither do cats.I have proper culinary consumption standards for that{pet protection} but I don't mind if I wanted to eat these animals above...also go for crocodiles and scorpions...they're twice as good as the other meats I've ever tasted

Considering that "pets" are entirely arbitrary, what the hell does "pet protection" have to do with "proper culinary standards"? I've had pet ducks and chickens, but that doesn't mean that it's "improper" (especially in a culinary sense) for you or I to eat a completely different duck or chicken.

Now, if you just plain don't want to eat dogs or cats because of feelings, then fine. No complaints there. But the fact dogs and cats are common pets doesn't mean that the consumption of dogs and cats amounts to improper culinary consumption standards.

I had dog meat as beer food in the Philippines. Kinda stringy. But, after guzzling a caseful of beer, it tasted good.

@MrGeezer: there are people who can't distinguish between pets and those of feral,here in Indonesia,some cultures do eat pets for meat,and luckily,I'm from a different culture,I respect dogs and cats(pets and feral),but I don't mind about eating poultry fowls,only if it's bred in a clean environment

I probably wouldn't to be honest. If you still would then you would, but I wouldn't.

@i-rock-socks: as long as it didn't suffer and was killed humainly :p

See, here's the thing: if it's feral, then it's not really someone's "pet."

Sort of how it isn't improper (from a culinary standpoint) for me to go out and kill a wild turkey, but it WOULD be pretty improper for me to kidnap someone's pet turkey and eat it just because I personally don't consider turkeys to be "pets".

So here's my question. Are the Indonesians catching stray cats and dogs and eating them (or breeding cats and dogs for food in the same way that Americans breed cows and chickens for food consumption)? Or does the cat and dog meat that is eaten in Indonesia primarily consist of meat that was obtained by catching people's actual pets?

@MrGeezer: they catch ferals,but they are not to be slaughtered,instead they give refuge til it's old enough to nurture itself,if it's dead,no one is allowed to eat or sell it. as for the question,Islamic laws put up a "haram" on cat meat and dogs,only a few cultures do eat them,including animists,see those jungle people,they eat boars without legal problems,it's all about culture and belief in animals' right to live and die...as for Americans',I'd rather leave it as it is

So...they basically AREN'T actually anyone's pets, then.

I don't eat animals that are high on the food chain.

Too many toxins

@MrGeezer: yeah,but it doesn't mean it's for some people to eat,life has meaning even for animals,they have a time to live,and a time to die. slaughtering cats or dogs or any other mammals inhumanly would pin trouble, only if they're sick,they're brought to euthanasia,or die naturally. let the other animals eat it,we don't deserve it(eating meats from either cats or dogs).

@Smashbrossive50 said:

@MrGeezer: yeah,but it doesn't mean it's for some people to eat,life has meaning even for animals,they have a time to live,and a time to die. slaughtering cats or dogs or any other mammals inhumanly would pin trouble, only if they're sick,they're brought to euthanasia,or die naturally. let the other animals eat it,we don't deserve it(eating meats from either cats or dogs).

I didn't say that eating dogs or cats was for everyone. I eat chickens and cows and pigs and fish and shrimp, but I'm not gonna hold it against someone else if they don't want to. I'm not gonna act as if they're somehow wrong for not wanting to eat the things that I like to eat.

My point is that unless it's someone's ACTUAL pet, then your reasoning is sort of weird. Again: you aren't just saying that YOU don't want to eat dogs and cats. You stated that you wouldn't eat dogs and cats because you "have proper culinary consumption standards for that{pet protection}".

A) You haven't actually established that eating dogs and cats actually violates any culinary consumption standards.

B) The whole thing about pet protection ceases to be an issue once you establish that the animal isn;t actually anyone's pet.

I mean, jesus. You're talking about how "life has meaning even for animals" as some kind of defense for not eating dogs and cats, and this is right after you admit that you'd eat the hell out of a snake or a lizard. By your standard, no one should be allowed to eat ANY animal, since nearly every kind of animal has at one point been SOMEONE'S beloved "pet".

Better idea: stop trying to rationalize this and just say that you wouldn't eat a dog or a cat because it feels wrong to you. That's okay. You're a human being. No one's going to fault you for having certain emotional connections that prevent you from eating a certain kind of animal. But you're kind of gonna come off as a hypocrite if you try to rationalize this on the basis of "pet protection" and "life has meaning for animals", and then immediately state that you'd totally eat a DIFFERENT kind of animal that SOMEONE ELSE has kept as a pet. I mean, it's possible to feel one way while being somewhat objective about the issue. I feel bad whenever I see someone needlessly kill a bug or a snake, but it'd be hypocritical for me to go on talking about the sanctity of life when I frequently eat chickens and cows.

Hell NO

There are a bunch of reasons why people don't eat carnivores.

Besides the fact that herbivores and omnivores like pigs tend to be more placid and easier to feed up in farming, bioaccumulants are a dangerous reason why we are really shouldn't be eating dogs.

If you live on a diet of carnivore meat, you're gonna end up with a serious case of mercury poisoning, among other things, due to the high toxin concentrations found in the meat, thanks to bioaccumulants.

No. Do you know they skin the dogs alive in China?

Do they really or is it just scare tactics because people couldn't find a good reason to condemn the Chinese eating dog other than "it feels wrong"?

Imagine if someone were to ask someone from India the same question about cow meat.

So sure why not, meat is meat and humans are after all a meat eater by nature.

You were in the army ???

@korvus: you can watch the documentary on YouTube, I forgot the video name, earthlings or something but it was very disgusting. They would hang the dogs from their legs and skin them alive.

No, it would probably be all tough.

@k--m--k: That sucks. It's like killing pigs...never had the heart to do it like my uncle did...he would just slice the pig's throat and let him bleed for 45 minutes until it finally died...according to him a slow bleed made the meat taste better. And then we were supposed to have lunch with the pig dying and screaming his lungs off just far enough from us for us not to get blood on our clothes...

@korvus: it takes 45 minutes for a pig to die? That a lot of blood. We do usually buy a sheep and cut it throat like your uncle did, but it would die in 30 seconds. I don't think there a more merciful way to kill an animal for that

@k--m--k: My uncle's pigs were considerably larger than a sheep...7 or 8 kids could ride in one XD I can't give you precise details since I was 5 at the time and always tried not to be around when he did it but I think he did a shallow cut so it'd take longer to die...he'd also tie its hind legs and hang it so that the blood would keep flowing. When he killed 4 or 5 at once it was like a horror show...to this day I have yet to hear sounds like that...it's the kind of sound that makes you want to puke even before you know what's making it.

@korvus: well that explains a lot. Sheeps rarely make a noise, they just struggle with their body. If the pigs death was painful to you then I don't recommend the documentary at all.

@k--m--k: Well, I was 5 at the time and have you ever heard a big pig die? You can hear it 2 blocks away.

Why it gotta be Chinese. Lol. But sure, I'll eat any animal if it taste good and no one told me what it is until after and if it was the only thing left in the world to eat. I need to eat more greens though.

Yeah I think eating human is going too far, however imo (even if they haven't been someone's pets) cats and dogs are some of the animals on my list where eating them also just sounds wrong. I certainly would never eat them.

Though I'm not really a meat eater at all (one of the few exceptions are cheeseburgers) I'd say I'm a vegetarian just not a strict one considering I do at least eat dairy products/eggs.

@Toph_Girl250: Vegetarians eat dairy and eggs, it's vegans who don't =)

Ah so that's the difference. Well then I'm proud to announce that I am not a Vegan. :P

Ya know, i'll be honest and say no. I would stop, only because it would not leave my mind, them sad eyes, and poor doggies. Unless i was in a jungle stuck with no food, then i would again. But here in the US, with so many choices, i would stop.

Ha ha ha no. Only time I can see eating anything in sight is if there's no other non-meat food around, and you're in a time/place where you're desperate for survival. Other than that, I don't see any good of not caring what the animal is, we should respect living creatures, I just think its common sense, even if you disagree.

I certainly ain't no ravenous zombie carnivore that has no mercy for living creatures around me and will eat anything in sight.

=O I'm not a vegan either!! What are the odds we'd have that in common??..oh wait, pretty high, actually XD