Do you find it especially upsetting when you view photos of dog meat markets in East Asia, or does it not bother you any more than the way farm animals are treated in the US?

Well, I have been accustomed with these views since I was a kid. At first it looks so inhumane but we need to know that those people have been consuming these animals since ancient times. Different people have different value as to what animals are edible and what are not.

Here, in Indonesia, Dogs were killed by constricting their neck with rope and beat their head with big stick. It’s not cruel or inhumane, it’s just what some people must do to survive or to preserve their culture. It’s the same like killing consumable animals like chickens, cows, bats, snakes, etc.

I find the dog meat market disturbing just because I have a dog as a pet and think of her as part of the family. Just the thought of eating dog meat makes me sick to my stomach. While thinking of eating a steak sounds delicious to me, simply because I don’t have a pet cow. (That would be pretty cool though.)

It’s understandable that we feel more revulsion when we see cruelty towards animals that form social bonds with us. I remember how shocking it was when I first went to Paris and saw horse butcher shops everywhere. Social species form nurturing bonds, even across species lines.

But we’re also capable of squelching those feelings of intimacy when it suits our purposes. Hell, we even do that with other humans at times. And then too, we’re capable of extending that nurturing compassion even to animals that don’t return our caring feelings.

Meat is meat.

I’m pretty equally grossed out by any dead animals.

It’s always upsetting to me when an animal is treated harshly on its way to our kitchens. Pain is pain and if I’m going to be slaughtered for food, the least you could do for me is kill me swiftly.

It severely angers me that some people believe the animal tastes better if it is made to suffer before it is killed. However, I have very little problem with the idea of consuming meat. Having said that, I am considering givin up meat, just out of morality. I’m not serious about the idea yet, but have been toying with it.

I couldn’t finish reading you description because I can’t stand to see cruelty in any form. I do eat meat and as a meat eater I can’t say that eating a dog is worse than eating a cow or a pig. They are all living creatures but cruelty is something that isn’t necessary.
I’m sure people in India think we are savages for killing and eating cows. We eat what is available to eat. But I think all animals should be treated with care before their demise.
Pesonally I would never eat an animal that was bred to be a companion to people.

No, I have eaten and enjoyed, dog, cat, rat, various snakes and other reptiles. Even certain sorts of South American Tarantulas. The protein sources available in an area are the determining factor I would think. By the way, ever been to a slaughter house for pigs, chickens, cattle? There is a sight…to make your eyes sore, eh?

Animal are animals. They all suffer equally under those conditions.

We should all become vegetarian.

Hmmm, vegetarian? Wrong dentition and wrong flora/fauna in the gut. But a lovely thought…unless you believe plants are also cognizant?

Very culture is different, what one finds appealing another finds repulsive. It would not bother me at all. I often see one of my cats napping upright, paws tucked under them and they remind me of the shape a turkey has and I think if you didn’t have turkeys but tons of cats, they are about the size of a turkey and can stretch to two-days worth of eating. Parts of Europe they eat horses, Japanese slaughter whales and dolphins to eat. Though I do not like the slaughter of dolphins and whales I came to the logical conclusion there is little reason I should be concern unless an endangered one. Japanese _fin” sharks. The fact they just toss the animal back in the water with no way to swim insuring its death seem kind of cruel, especially when humans know what they are doing, unlike the shark that attacks a human because he view us as food.

With all the dogs and cats euthanized here in the US it logically would provide a cheap way to provide the soup kitchens with meat, and the left over pelts, lining of jackets. Maybe some homeless person in cold climates might survive a winter because they would have a warmer coat and gloves. I love my cats, but if anyone is eating cats ”over there”, they are not eating my cat.

What was especially upsetting was seeing photos of dogs with their legs tied behind their backs (you can imagine the pain, as dogs’ legs go forward, not backward). Not only are some packed into cages so tight they can’t move or lie down, ones not in cages have the legs broken and tied backward so they can’t move. They are left that way over night. Really sickening. They believe that the meat tastes better when the animal suffers before it dies. Disgusting.

Animal cruelty bothers me regardless of where it is or how it’s done.