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Eat more dogs, Cambodians urged.
An alternative form of population control for stray animals. As mentioned in the very short article (I wish CNN would have gotten more background information since this article is probably going to raise Western revulsion about eating pets which makes me wonder what the purpose of the article is at all other than to show how 'barbaric' non-Western cultures are), the eating of dogs in big cities like Phnom Penh is not common. It's mostly in the poorer parts of the nation where they also eat insects.
What is your reaction to this snippet of news?
I doubt the country has the resources to dedicate to dog and cat sanctuaries where the strays can be rounded up and placed in and I think that their people have more to worry about than the luxury of feeding their pets holistic, organic food. In a functional sense, it feeds people instead of having the dogs euthanised and corpses piling up.


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I think that Kep Chuktema is being very unrealistic. Choosing to not eat dog is not a choice out of "snootiness" it a choice of respect and love for dogs. I really don't think that I could eat dog, no matter how socially acceptable it was. Just as I could never eat a cow that I raised...it would be too much like a pet.
"Come on, dog meat is so delicious,"
Again, I find that this is very ignorant. It doubt that the taste of dog is turning people off of eating them. I have eaten veal before and it was delicious...HOWEVER, I refuse to condone the treatment of the animals before they are killed and thus, I don't eat it.
In theory, it makes sense. In practice, I don't think it's going to happen.


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I love dogs, and I love my dog. But every culture is different -- Hindus consider cows a sacred animal, Muslims consider pigs to be nothing but filth, and people in the Western World don't eat insects. I think as long as any animal raised for meat is treated humanely and slaughtered humanely, it isn't an evil thing. As much as I love dogs, people are more important, and I'd rather see people get food than see a bunch of stray dogs from another country be rounded up and shipped elsewhere.
My partner and I have joked, that when the apocolypse happens, we're going to eat the cats first, then the dog. But if push came to shove, and grand-scale economic collapse happened, and I was starving to death with no food, I'd eat a pet. It would break my heart, but I'd do it.
-GC


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What do you call a dog in Cambodia wagging its tail??
A HAPPY MEAL
(I heard that on Jay Leno)


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Leno is too funny
Well, I read some articles which covered the slaughter of horses in the US for export to European and Asian countries. Same concept, horses are beloved pets in the US but horsemeat is considered more healthy than beef in other countries and there is a demand.
I don't know how the city dwellers will react to the encouragement to eat stray dogs, most strays are seen as dirty and diseased in the first place, no one wants to eat meat that's 'contaminated'. I doubt urban attitudes towards dogmeat will change, I think eating dogs will just remain a practice of rural areas in that country.


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Many people consider it terrible to eat rabbits, but rabbits were raised as food animals far before they were pets. I certainly could not eat my bunnies (I hand-raise them!, and they are my babies!), but I have had rabbit, and it is actually quite good. Very healthy, too, and easy on the digestive system.


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I don't think that I could bring myself to eat rabbit...heck, I won't even eat veal. I have heard that it is good though.


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I could never eat dog or cat, but people do. It all depends on your view. I could care less what people feel they can and cannot eat, as long as they do not tell me I am bad for eating what I eat.