Can’t do the Jesus /dog MEME
but If I could.
Hey Master, What’s for dinner?
Silly Dog, YOU!! lol
^^ Wait - that would be a Budda Dog Meme wouldn’t it?
Can anybody do a Budda Dog meme - hilarious lol
^^^ Yeah - enough photos - I think we got the point.
However, the bowl does look appetizing and I’d eat it until I found out it was puppy.
There have been times when I’ve thrown away chinese food because I got the suspicion that it was cat or dog. Crazy how the mind messes with you.
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Are their hot dogs made of real dogs?
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That is a chicken factory not farm and yes its pretty cruel.
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Now what’s crazy is that the chx factory is legal where they dump live chx in vats of hot oil (alive) pluck their feathes and then kill them. But we want to send Mike Vick to jail???
I get that you are shocked, but I still don’t find it all that jaw dropping considering there has been heavy rumors as well as (supposed) photographic evidence of aborted fetuses being served as a delicacy at restaurants in China. It’s all disgusting, but my point was that China is a nation with all sorts of problems, many a lot more serious than utilizing dogs as food. It’s not the only Asian country where people eat dogs, after all.
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
^^^ Yeah - enough photos - I think we got the point.
However, the bowl does look appetizing and I’d eat it until I found out it was puppy.
There have been times when I’ve thrown away chinese food because I got the suspicion that it was cat or dog. Crazy how the mind messes with you.[/quote]
Holy Shit…I too have thrown away food because it tasted funny.
I do lots of business in China and I have never seen a more gross culture first hand. It is cultural for sure.
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Now what’s crazy is that the chx factory is legal where they dump live chx in vats of hot oil (alive) pluck their feathes and then kill them. But we want to send Mike Vick to jail???[/quote]
Do you put all animals on the same level?
I don’t.
I wouldn’t eat any animal with a high level of intelligence, or a decipherable personality.
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I get that you are shocked, but I still don’t find it all that jaw dropping considering there has been heavy rumors as well as (supposed) photographic evidence of aborted fetuses being served as a delicacy at restaurants in China. It’s all disgusting, but my point was that China is a nation with all sorts of problems, many a lot more serious than utilizing dogs as food. It’s not the only Asian country where people eat dogs, after all.[/quote]
I don’t disagree and I’m not all the repulsed by the idea of beastiality / food and whatever else they do with dogs in china (the pics are shocking though). However, there are larger problems the world over. Who cares if they like to eat an aborted fetus. They’re not eating a live person right (no need to get into the whole life argument - we can agree to disagree) What about in Africa where there are documented reports of people killing albino humans and eating their body parts.
There are still places in Taiwan where people eat dogs but it’s seen as low class and of course as just fucking weird by people that own dogs as pets.
Sometimes people forget that a country or culture is not homogeneous and saying “Eating dogs isn’t so weird because people in China do it” is incorrect not anywhere near all of them do and many of the ones who don’t think it’s bad too.
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I wouldn’t eat any animal with a high level of intelligence, or a decipherable personality. [/quote]
What do you classify as a “high level” of intelligence?
Pigs are considered to be smart, so you don’t eat pork then?
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[quote]therajraj wrote:
I wouldn’t eat any animal with a high level of intelligence, or a decipherable personality. [/quote]
What do you classify as a “high level” of intelligence?
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Thats probably a religious decision for him.
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[quote]therajraj wrote:
I wouldn’t eat any animal with a high level of intelligence, or a decipherable personality. [/quote]
What do you classify as a “high level” of intelligence?
Pigs are considered to be smart, so you don’t eat pork then?[/quote]
Well, I’ve never heard of pigs considered being smart before, I’d have to look into that. However, other than the occasional pepperoni pizza or Sub sandwich I barely eat pork anyway.
With chickens, you can cut their heads off all day and none of the surviving chickens would even pick up on it.
A cow is so stupid it will starve to death with food only two inches under the snow.
I do not consider chickens and cows as very smart animals, so I eat them.
This is just my personal
*That is just my personal standard, I do not expect others to follow it.
If people want to eat dogs in China, and Canadians want to slaughter horses to sell their meat, I have no problems with that.
I’d like to preface by saying that I love dogs, and the idea of eating one appalls me, but I try to step out of my North American viewpoint and see things from an international perspective. We grew up with dogs as loyal family pets, but in other countries they’re considered roaming pests, similar to vermin. In other countries they’re fierce guardians that are trained to kill the fuck out of any trespasser (ie: much of Africa). In some countries, meat is so scarce that anything is fair game. Just because we view an animal a certain way doesn’t mean the rest of the world does.
People give the Japanese shit for eating whale, even though the consumption is going down on a yearly basis. We consider whales to be brilliant, majestic creatures who must be protected, but after WWII in Japan it was either eat whale, or starve. The allies firebombed the shit out of much of their arable land and livestock, and coupled with a particularly bad fishing season it meant that whale was now a staple food. Ask any older Japanese person about “kujira bento” (“whale lunch”) and they’ll tell you they ate it 7 days a week…just whale and a bit of rice.
In developed countries we have the luxury of choosing a variety of meat from the supermarket, and we have the luxury of being “ethical” in our choices. Most of the world doesn’t.
(As an aside, if you’re going to make an argument against eating higher-order/intelligent animals, you really shouldn’t be eating pork, octopus or squid).
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I’d like to preface by saying that I love dogs, and the idea of eating one appalls me, but I try to step out of my North American viewpoint and see things from an international perspective. We grew up with dogs as loyal family pets, but in other countries they’re considered roaming pests, similar to vermin. In other countries they’re fierce guardians that are trained to kill the fuck out of any trespasser (ie: much of Africa). In some countries, meat is so scarce that anything is fair game. Just because we view an animal a certain way doesn’t mean the rest of the world does.
People give the Japanese shit for eating whale, even though the consumption is going down on a yearly basis. We consider whales to be brilliant, majestic creatures who must be protected, but after WWII in Japan it was either eat whale, or starve. The allies firebombed the shit out of much of their arable land and livestock, and coupled with a particularly bad fishing season it meant that whale was now a staple food. Ask any older Japanese person about “kujira bento” (“whale lunch”) and they’ll tell you they ate it 7 days a week…just whale and a bit of rice.
In developed countries we have the luxury of choosing a variety of meat from the supermarket, and we have the luxury of being “ethical” in our choices. Most of the world doesn’t.
(As an aside, if you’re going to make an argument against eating higher-order/intelligent animals, you really shouldn’t be eating pork, octopus or squid).
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I agree with most of what you’ve wrote but I want to point out whale and dolphin meat is EXTREMELY bad for you.
The level of mercury in those animals is off the charts. Humans shouldn’t eat them purely as a health concern.
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I agree with most of what you’ve wrote but I want to point out whale and dolphin meat is EXTREMELY bad for you.
The level of mercury in those animals is off the charts. Humans shouldn’t eat them purely as a health concern.[/quote]
Yup. Dolphin especially. I got tricked into eating it once in Okinawa. Aside from being completely disgusting, I probably have about 8 thermometers worth of Mercury in my system right now…
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I agree with most of what you’ve wrote but I want to point out whale and dolphin meat is EXTREMELY bad for you.
The level of mercury in those animals is off the charts. Humans shouldn’t eat them purely as a health concern.[/quote]
Yup. Dolphin especially. I got tricked into eating it once in Okinawa. Aside from being completely disgusting, I probably have about 8 thermometers worth of Mercury in my system right now…[/quote]
Did you have it as sashimi?
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Did you have it as sashimi?
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Yep. Very gristly, almost like eating tendon
This doesn’t really bother me that much. There are 1 billion people in China. I think a lot of people here would eat dog if a lot of the animals we currently eat went instinct.
China has worse problems. Like there are kids in the street who are covered in dirt begging for money. According to a friend that lived there, these kids don’t go to school, they just sit in the streets begging for money and give it to their parents who spend it on alcohol or drugs or something. If they don’t get any money they get beaten by their parents. Well I saw the kids, but that was what a friend (Chinese) told me they were doing out there. They even jumped on a couple of friends backs (foreigners) begging for money.