I was only recently acquainted with the idea that there are many people on the internet who become very angry that some people eat dog meat, but do not with say cow meat or pig meat. — I find this rather strange and do not understand this.
They will even become hostile when you challenge this because you are threatening the foundation of their ethics and mental health.
This pretty obviously isn't what people are principally reacting too, but it is massively understated when people get into "why do we eat A and not B?"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
>even 1% of the anger is because the consumer has wasted resources on their food
Mao Zedong used that reasoning during China's cultural revolution for banning dog ownership
Omnivores, not carnivores.
Ref: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Canis_lupus_familiaris/
- Plants are less "human like" than insects - Insects are less "human like" than sharks - Sharks are less "human like" than pigs - Pigs are less "human like" than dogs - Dogs are less "human like" than primates - Primates are less "human like" than humans
Pretending that this is is irrelevant doesn't help discourse.
And yes of course this sorting is subjective, some people may find pigs and cows "just as" "human like" as dogs - but most people won't.
Since dogs have been specifically bred to be very close to humans (being companions, living in the home, etc.) whereas pigs and cows have been bred to be eaten, this shouldn't be surprising.
I honestly find it a very strange idea to say dogs are more human like than pigs.
Have you ever socialized with a pig? It is immediately clear to me that they display intelligence and emotional awareness of a far higher level than dogs. With pigs, it almost feels as though they are mute humans, trying to communicate in some way but being unable to do so due to an inability to speak, similar to dolphins and nonhuman apes. — They are also inquisitive creatures that inspect their environment and seem to apply some level of cognition to it that I never saw in dogs.
I'm not sure anyone else really worries about it from what I've seen, having traveled around.
Cow = herbivore domesticated for milk/meat
Eating dogs is terribly inefficient since they are carnivores. Seems fairly obvious that hunter gathers wouldn't have typically done this, and that it is a recent thing in regions that had famines & excess stray dogs.
More importantly, inefficiency most definitely isn't the reason for which people on the internet "become very angry" at the idea of eating dog.
Apparently he was fine with defending murder suspects, but not suspects charged with even street groping. Or Gerard Spong's statement of being willing to defend anyone charged with anything, except Dési Bouterse; there are certainly worse military dictators on the planet.
^ e.g. checking whether that could be a setup, a misunderstanding or an overreaction to an innocent/unconscious action; it wasn't any of that.
How very strange. — In many jurisdictions defence attorneys do not have a right to refuse any case they are competent in and timewise available for, something I approve of.
Collective responsibility is such a strange philosophy. I owe an entity because a member of it's helped a member of my species in the past?
It's completely unregulated and the animals (dogs, cats etc) would often be tortured and killed by amateurs because properly killing an animal is harder than it looks.
Dogs are also not eaten for meat or taste and mostly done for superstition.
1 - https://www.animalsasia.org/us/media/news/news-archive/china...
And then the northerners say it is only done in the south and vice versa. And I've personally seen a veterinary student from china get very angry every time someone mentioned Chinese eating dogs...