Should dogs, cats, or horses be sold as food

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I know they are in some parts of the world, especially parts of Asia and in the case of horses some countries in Europe.

None are commercially available in the US though.

My feelings are.. horses yes, dogs and cats no.

Horses are basically ungulate herbivores with about the same intelligence as cows or sheep.

Dogs and cats are far more intelligent and for this reason I am opposed to it.

What are some other opinions?

I now feel horses should NOT be sold as food either

Horses are cooler and more useful. Ergo, bad food. It's why no one eats astronauts.

Horse is delicious, I'd like to eat it more often, but it is hardly available around here.

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I now feel horses should NOT be sold as food either

What changed your mind?

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
What changed your mind?

I'm beginning to have the opinion that no animal should be sold as food

Originally posted by Bardock42
Horse is delicious, I'd like to eat it more often, but it is hardly available around here.

I tried it when I was in Germany way back in 1980. It was commonly available then.

Meat tastes great period.

Personally food means a lot to me, I love making it and I love eating it. the satisfaction of eating some tasty is a unique experience that I want to keep returning to, and meat makes that experience all the better. I have tried to eat like a vegan/vegetarian and I have never been so bored with food in my life.

Manly because I have grown up loving and caring for dogs and cats I would most likely not eat them if I were given a choice. Horse on the other hand is good meat, tastes good = I will eat it.

Whale as well tastes freaking awesome, in fact its the best meat right next too seabirds. The whale meat is distributed to everyone that wants in it in any given and approved whale town. should a whale group be caught close to land.

The seabirds you will need to catch/shoot yourself sometimes people who have a lot of it will sell it at the dock, offering it to people who would otherwise not be able to catch/shoot them, because of either age or no boat for example.

But to be fair, is it really good logic to not kill an animal because of its intelligence? Its almost like saying the slow kids at school are less worthy then the average kids... Like if anything bad happens just eat the dump kids! hehe

No I don't think they should.

Sell all three of them. Really we have no problem eating octopus which is probably more intelligent than any of these three...

If people will buy it why not?

The problem is that in America I doubt there will be much of a market for it the forseeable future.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Sell all three of them. Really we have no problem eating octopus which is probably more intelligent than any of these three...

The veined octopus, which sounds so very much like a penis reference, has forward thinking tool usage: putting it up there with shit eating apes.

Deep fried hamsters on a stick is good!

If Fallout taught us anything, it's that Squirrel Stew, Squirrel on a Stick, Iguana on a Stick, Iguana Bits, Dog Meat, and Coca Nuka-Cola are big big sellers.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
If Fallout taught us anything, it's that Squirrel Stew, Squirrel on a Stick, Iguana on a Stick, Iguana Bits, Dog Meat, and Coca Nuka-Cola are big big sellers.

And don't forget the second most popular drink, Sunset Sarsaparilla.

And it also taught us that mole-rat meat is edible along with mutated gecko meat.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
If Fallout taught us anything, it's that Squirrel Stew, Squirrel on a Stick, Iguana on a Stick, Iguana Bits, Dog Meat, and Coca Nuka-Cola are big big sellers.

Also that large stockpiles of iguana meat are readily available everywhere in United States.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Also that large stockpiles of iguana meat are readily available everywhere in United States.

It's cause of the Deathclaws: they are genetically altered iguanas. (lies, but fun to pretend it's canon)

Whether or not, or which animal is the NOT the question. If an animal must be consumed for a human to stay alive, give it as quick and painless a death as humanly possible. That is all I care about.

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I now feel horses should NOT be sold as food either

Is that what you've been dedicating your life to for the last 4 years?

Horsemeat is food. Where do you live?

Cats and Dogs don't know. Maybe in China but the real future food out there are insects. With pastures receding due to massive expansion of cities, the conventional livestock is becoming more and more unconventinal these days due to higher prices for animal hydration and nutrition. Fresh water is becoming scarce and animal fodder is becoming increasingly more expensive to produce.

But the question is this: Would you eat insects? Most westerners would not but in Asia, Africa and Australia, kids are raised eating insects, so not much biggie for them.

I came across this:

Raising insects is environmentally friendly. They require minimal space per pound of protein produced, have a better feed to meat ratio than any other animal you can raise, and are very low on the food chain. They are healthy, tasty, and have been utilized for the entire history of mankind (after all, it is easier to catch a grub than a mammoth).

There are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects. Doubtless there are thousands more that simply have not been tasted yet. 100 grams of cricket contains: 121 calories, 12.9 grams of protein, 5.5 g. of fat, 5.1 g. of carbohydrates, 75.8 mg. calcium, 185.3 mg. of phosphorous, 9.5 mg. of iron, 0.36 mg. of thiamin, 1.09 mg. of riboflavin, and 3.10 mg. of niacin.

Though one site said insects tend to have a lower amino acid level but are pretty high in lysine and threonine.

Your thoughts on insects as food/protein source?

Originally posted by BobbyD
Whether or not, or which animal is the NOT the question. If an animal must be consumed for a human to stay alive, give it as quick and painless a death as humanly possible. That is all I care about.