'Eating Puppy No Worse than Pork...'

Sorry if this is in the wrong place!

Went to check my emails and this caught my eye. Wondered what everyone else thought.



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That's a worrying statement makes you wonder if has actually tried it but I don't like this guy I think he is an ass.

no...as if u read the article he says he would only do it if he was on the brink of starvation.

...i guess he trying to say pigs are clever social creatures the same as dogs?

I can see where he is coming from though, not that I am for organic puppy on sale in shops.

I don't mind Hugh F-W, watch most of his programmes and have a couple of his books!

still though the way he works makes you wonder still

if you eat meat, you have a reponsibility to make sure that the animals you use for meat have a good standard of life while alive and are slaughtered humanley.

in that case, does it make a difference what animal you eat?

Actually, I might have to say I agree, I have attachment to dogs, so wouldn't choose to eat them, but do think that where the meat comes from is the most important thing, that they have had the best life they can before dying as humanly as possible, and although pigs are intelligant, I do think that all animals deserve respect, but is it cultural why we don't eat dogs, but we eat cows, and I'm sure that Hindus would never consider doing that, so why do we? So I do think that eating different animals isn't wrong, but letting that animal suffer in life or death is.

Personally I think Hugh F-W has done a lot for animal welfare and I respect him for that.

Although I don't eat meat, poultry or fish myself, I do buy it for Max. I like to know that whatever animal he eats has lived a good standard of life and has had a quick and humane death.

A lot of pork we eat in this country is intensively reared and leads a very miserable existence and yet many people are still happy to eat it. A puppy raised on a high-welfare organic farm would have a much higher quality of life than the intensively reared pig and yet I suspect many people would be horrified by the idea of eating 'man's best friend' despite the puppy having a much higher standard of life than an intensively farmed animal that had endured an extremely miserable existence.

I think he has a good point - he's not saying "let's breed dogs for meat!" but asking why people deem that as horrific but will eat pork when pigs are intelligent, sociable animals that form bonds with humans (and are kept as pets)
Don't think I could eat dog/cat, which makes me a bit of a hypocrite, but can see his point.

I see his point to be honest. Why is eating dog frowned upon while eating cows or sheep or pigs not? I don't see it as a worrying statement.