Do you ever think eating dogs & cats will be commonplace in the U.S. like in other countries? (suspect, abuse)

[usamathman]

Pretty sure those that have visited fast food or chinese takeout have eaten cats or dogs and much worse.

[jambo101]

While i've been conditioned to not think of cats and dogs as a food source they are edible and if the family got hungry enough Dusty,Whisker and Tiger would unfortunately be on the menu.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Sarajevo is a beautiful city in the former Yugoslavia. The Winter Olympics were held there. Then Marshal Tito died and the original nations of Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and the northern part of Albania separated into their old nationalities and cultures. Fighting broke out as the "authorities" tried to prevent these nations from recovering their freedom.

In Sarajevo, there was no water in the high rise apartments. To get water you had to take a bucket or a plastic jug to a water source. The risk of bing shot by a sniper was high. All of the cats, dogs and guinea pigs had already been eaten and people ate the bodies of those killed by snipers. Some people would rather die than eat a pet or a neighbor. Other people will do what is necessary to survive.

These are facts. Now you can get back to the esthetics of whether golden retrievers or cats are more tasty.

[Basiliximab]

Originally Posted by HappyFarm34

With the ever increasing population in the U.S., and rapid decrease of family farms, people need to eat for survival. In 50-100yrs. from now, can you see this happening in the U.S. similar to other countries around the world?

Definitely. The U.S. will not stay a major world power forever. Are some people that historically ignorant not to realize that?

Originally Posted by maus

If there will have been widespread starvation in the future, maybe the situation will have been different. That would be acts of desperation and not preference.

That's the perspective that I'm looking at it from. Culturally (if things remained at status quo), I don't think it will happen because of these reasons:

Originally Posted by reneeh63

Uhmmm....no. For one thing it's not in the culture historically to do so. Second, pets are revered and catered to here. Third, meat is not in short supply. Fifth, even the very poorest are not doing so now. Fourth, there is a slow movement toward eating less meat and even vegetarianism.

But that's looking at it from a perspective that things don't change. Which is absolutely false. This country has only been in existence for upwards of a couple hundred years. Will it happen 50-100 years from now? Probably not, hopefully not. Yet it's definitely possible that things will get that bad (even probable. The next world power may really want to make this place suffer; and on some level I can understand the disgust and wanting to backlash).

[Linda_d]

Originally Posted by Wittgenstein's Ghost

What does culture have to do with morality? What does popular belief have to do with morality?

My point is that we might enjoy dogs and pets due to our culture, but that doesn't mean that eating dogs or cats is any more morally atrocious than eating pigs.

Culture has everything to do with morality since it determines what its members value. What's desirable in one culture may be reprehensible in another. For example, the ancient Egyptian pharoahs usually married their half sisters while in the Western world that has long been considered incest.

Someone of Chinese heritage raised in the US as an American is going to think like other Americans, and share with other Americans a general moral code. Someone of American heritage raised in China as Chinese is going to think like other Chinese and share with other Chinese a general moral code.

[eok]

If your crops are ruined by floods when it rains cats and dogs, you might not have anything to eat but the cats and dogs.

[funksoulbro]

I say we take all the unwanted cats and dogs from "kill shelters" and turn them into food for homeless people. That solves two problems simultaneously.

[CPPU12345]

I always thought the life was more than food.

Only the ill planning of a person would bring to itself to such disgrace states of eating dogs and cats.

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by CPPU12345

I always thought the life was more than food.

Only the ill planning of a person would bring to itself to such disgrace states of eating dogs and cats.

If it came down to a survival situation you would eat a dog or a cat rather than die of starvation..

[Foodmuse]

I hope not. We don't "need" to eat any sort of meat for health.