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4. I love dogs - I have one lovely one that keeps me company - but . . .

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:40 AM

Jun 2014

It is kind of arbitrary what we decide is worthy of eating and what isn't, right? Why are Dogs more deserving of not being eaten than Pigs?

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China dog-eaters dodge activists with early feast [View all] dipsydoodle Jun 2014 OP

In this case I'm on the side of the affluent get the red out Jun 2014 #1

They should eat lemmings instead. Orrex Jun 2014 #2

If that would lower the proverbial population of them get the red out Jun 2014 #3

I love dogs - I have one lovely one that keeps me company - but . . . el_bryanto Jun 2014 #4

because bacon tastes really fucking good snooper2 Jun 2014 #7

Social mores are by their very nature, arbitrary. LanternWaste Jun 2014 #11

the activists are Chinese, I guess you didn't read that far down snooper2 Jun 2014 #9

I think people object (justifiably so) to whale slaughter because LordGlenconner Jun 2014 #12

Yeah, this is why the world hates us superpatriotman Jun 2014 #13

Doggone it! KamaAina Jun 2014 #8

Hot dogs? KamaAina Jun 2014 #10