Let's eat pigs and zebras but don't eat dogs and whales---because that's the way we do.

The argument for eating dog
By John D. Sutter, CNN
July 24, 2014 -- Updated 1413 GMT (2213 HKT)

Which is this: The cruelty of this trade -- the fact that dogs are smashed into cages; suffocated; "skinned alive, strung up and beaten," according to a CNN report -- is what should shock and sadden you. The fact that people are eating dog meat? That shouldn't. Unless you're vegetarian or vegan -- I'm not, by the way, although I do try to eat relatively little meat -- you don't have any moral high ground to stand on. Here in the United States, a place with an unhealthy and ridiculously hipster bacon obsession (witness: bacon donuts, bacon pie, bacon in bloody marys), eating dog could be seen as a reasonable alternative to pig, which is another highly intelligent animal, capable of being a companion to the likes of George Clooney.
The United States euthanizes 1.2 million dogs per year, according to the ASPCA.
Would eating them be so different?



. But if you refuse to eat only the meat of 'companion' animals -- chewing bacon, for example, while telling Koreans that they can't stew Dalmatians -- you're saying that the morality of killing depends on habit or even whim."

　

　知的で人間の友達にもなれる豚を食っているのに、なんで、犬を食ってはいけない、などと言えるのか？


　あたりまえの議論なんですけど、欧米中心主義的な文化の檻に無批判にのほほんとしている多くの欧米の人たちにはわからないんですね。


　それでいて、アメリカでは、１２０万匹の犬が安楽死されている、と。

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Zebra: The New Red Meat
Hannah Goldberg @Hgoldberg15 July 25, 2014

イギリスでは、シマウマの肉を食うのは違和感がないらしい。

　批判的な思考能力というのはどこの国でも必要なものですね。