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The Donner Party scenario. Let's hope none of us comes to that.
I actually think in severely times there would usually be animals easier to kill, and better eating, than dogs or humans.
Even in an apocalyptic scenario you might find houses that have pet rabbits or birds to eat. And if stranded in the wild the dogs you encounter might be rather vicious or prone to run. A domestic dog wouldn't have the skittishness, so could be lured easy, but I don't know. I just feel liked you'd be better off looking for rabbits or squirrels or birds. In the most dire of situations you might consider insects, spiders, and worms.
I actually think in severely times there would usually be animals easier to kill, and better eating, than dogs or humans.
Even in an apocalyptic scenario you might find houses that have pet rabbits or birds to eat. And if stranded in the wild the dogs you encounter might be rather vicious or prone to run. A domestic dog wouldn't have the skittishness, so could be lured easy, but I don't know. I just feel liked you'd be better off looking for rabbits or squirrels or birds. In the most dire of situations you might consider insects, spiders, and worms.
Now add the fact that there will be 8 billion people on the planet in 2021.
Rabbits aren't going to work.
Nothing will work if something catastrophic happens like a bad growth season. Millions (maybe billions) will die. Each year.
We can use their waster for food though, Solyent Green style.
You don't have to kill other sentient beings. What if another life form visited earth and started raising us for their food source ? It could happen and it would be logical karma since we do that to others.
I think it's unlikely that we'd be edible to an alien species. They'd likely have different nutrient needs as they'd come from a different world with differing biological history. Although possibly they could eat us the way we chew gum, not for nutrition but just "flavor", but I don't know it seems unlikely somehow. (I did consider it's plausible that salt, water, iron, and zinc could be beneficial to all kinds of species but offhand I see no particular reason where humans would be a better source of that than other animals or vegetables or even rocks. Well except that we're numerous, but I think insects are as or more numerous)
It is a good point though that we're not considering vegetable matter enough in these discussions. Possibly that's because the title does assume meat-eating. Also, and for the record, taking goofy or unlikely scenarios semi-serious is just what I do. It doesn't mean I actually think we'll ever be reduced to eating earthworms or hunting stray dogs or whatever. I just find it interesting to think out unlikely scenarios and sometimes I find it funny. (In this case it's not particularly funny, but there are others where taking an odd thing "serious" is funny to me.)
I find it hard to understand why so many people have problem with eating dog meat.
For people who consumes dog meat, I am pretty positive they do not eat their pet dogs....... Those dogs for consumption are feed just like chicken/pigs/cows( it's not the case in US cuz there's not much need for dog meat I guess..). I just don't get it. Some people go out to shoot animals for fun but consider consumption of dog meat immoral.......
Could someone please explain this? Thanks
You have an EXTREMELY good point here.
However I still think dog meat should rightly be banned. Any other people of different cultures who eat barbaric foods like that and decide to come to the US can either deal with giving up their food of "choice" or suffer the consequences.
They won't get any sympathy from me.
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