Photos of your dogs

[SteveAndBelle]

Yeah, like stepping on ants, spraying cockroaches with hardcore chemicals or whacking those large multi-coloured spiders you find building messy yellow webs in your garden with a bit of 4B2 ... who cares ?!?

But if it's cute & cuddly enough to make someone rich THEN we care about them. Hmmmm.

We humans are a strange lot.

Steve.

[Wongo]

First of all I would like to let you know that I have never tasted dog meat and cat meat (OK a small piece of dog when I was 10 :eek: ).

Is it wrong to eat cats and dogs in China? Well, when you have more than a billion people to feed you will eat whatever is available. We don’t waste food either and that’s why we eat every bit of the animals.

Why is eating dogs and cats any different from eating pork, beef, chicken, kangaroo, crocodile etc? :confused:

[simon c]

Why is eating dogs and cats any different from eating pork, beef, chicken, kangaroo, crocodile etc? :confused:

Humans domesticated animnals for a number of reasons, primarily:
Work - eg horses, etc
Food - eg chicken, cattle, pigs, etc
Pets - eg dogs, cats, etc
Commodities - eg wool, etc

Generally speaking we only eat animals that were domesticated for food purposes. We somtimes eat non domesticated animals (eg kangaroo, etc) but this is quite rare (no pun intended).

[TassieKiwi]

Finn McCool, at beautiful Binalong Bay. Great breed!

[bitingmidge]

Wongo, Wongo, Wongo...

Didn't your parents tell you not to bolt your food??? The first couple of times I didn't taste them either, it was so good the food barely touched the sides of my mouth on the way down!

The best of the pad-footed variety of food IMHO I have eaten was when I was in the hills in Hainan eating a superb meat dish, which my friend described with a puzzled experssion as "not the dog" (which was a bit of a relief I suppose).

A few months later we were in a big department store in Shanghai when he raced me up to the art supply section all excited, picked up a brush and pointed "this is the hair of the not the dog!!" - FOX!!

Not bad....

Come up anytime for a bit of cat, although they are disappearing from our neighbourhood....

Cheers,

P

[SteveAndBelle]

I ate Chicken Feet once at a 'real' Chinese restaurant ('real' as in the staff couldn't speak any English whatsoever). It wasn't bad but I probably wont have it again. You basically put what looks like a fried babys hand into your mouth (fingers first) then chew on it and spit out all the small bones & 'knuckle' bits etc. Sounds absolutely foul I know but it honestly wasn't too bad.

Nothing like making use of the WHOLE animal instead of wasting most of it like us 'Westerners' seem to do. I can't stomach Brians, Tongue, Tripe or any of that 1940/50's 'depression' type food tho ... ew. Maybe that's what's wrong with me

Steve.

[silentC]

Humans domesticated animnals for a number of reasons, primarily:
Work - eg horses, etc
Food - eg chicken, cattle, pigs, etc
Pets - eg dogs, cats, etc
Commodities - eg wool, etc

Generally speaking we only eat animals that were domesticated for food purposes. We somtimes eat non domesticated animals (eg kangaroo, etc) but this is quite rare (no pun intended).

Hmmm, not quite sure I'm with you there. The frogs eat horse, as Mat quite rightly points out. People have cows, sheep and chickens as pets. They also use cows (bullocks) to pull carts etc. Some people eat elephant meat, others use them to cart loads and as transport. I don't think you can generalise too much. Humans will eat just about anything, starving or not. Some of the stuff I've seen on menus puts me right off. Who in their right mind would eat a chicken's foot? Over a billion Chinese would!

[simon c]

Hmmm, not quite sure I'm with you there. The frogs eat horse, as Mat quite rightly points out. People have cows, sheep and chickens as pets. They also use cows (bullocks) to pull carts etc. Some people eat elephant meat, others use them to cart loads and as transport. I don't think you can generalise too much. Humans will eat just about anything, starving or not. Some of the stuff I've seen on menus puts me right off. Who in their right mind would eat a chicken's foot? Over a billion Chinese would!

I agree to all of the exceptions you mention but I'll emphasise the "Generally speaking" part of my note. People may have sheep etc as pets but they were primarily domesticated for food, which is why people don't mind eating them and subsequently it would be as odd to keep a sheep as a pet as it would be to eat a horse. Dogs were primarily domesticated as pets, which makes it less acceptable to eat them. Alpacas were domesticated for wool and you may think twice before eating one, whereas sheep were domesticated for both food and wool, so eating them isn't a problem.

Also, different cultures domesticated animals for different reasons and therefore have different expectations of what is the right thing to do with each animal.

And you probably eat the "lesser" bits of animals more than you think - in sausages and pies etc.

And of the course the French are the French.

[Sturdee]

Why is eating dogs and cats any different from eating pork, beef, chicken, kangaroo, crocodile etc? :confused:

IMO there is no difference, all animals are there to be eaten. It all depends on cultural differences and availability as to whether an animal is treated as a pet or a source of food.

The only thing of concern should be that there is no cruelty in the killing of them. Except for cats of course.


Peter.

[Kev Y.]

Do you know what happens to dog tu#d if its left sitting in the grass too long? It goes furry and turns into a cat

Kev (definate hater of felines)

[Sturdee]

The frogs eat horse,

Actually most Europeans eat horse meat. It's only the English with their weird tastes that refuse to eat it but instead eat tripe or brains. :eek:

They call it a noble animal but when it life is over they sent it to the glue factories. What a waste.


Peter.

[Christopha]

Personally, I prefer to tuck into a lovely roast Cavey...... yum!

[Grunt]

I quite like eating pussy.

[SteveAndBelle]

"There goes the neighbourhood"

[MathewA]

I was wondering how long it would take for the pussy joke to pop up

Ya know what they say about cat don't ya... It's the other white meat.

I don't think I'll try cooking up mini my retarded cat - way to tough. That cat won't stand still for more than 1/2 a second - damn near impossible to fatten the little bugger up.

Speakin of what other cultures eat... The Fijians say that the best part of a human is the back part of the thigh and the back part of the upper arm. They didn't like the missionaries though, they said they were too fatty.