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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's a sustainable level of eating dogs, cats and drink human blood too. Should we open dog farms to create more jobs?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no inherent difference whatsoever from eating cats and dogs to eating cows or horses or sheep. Meat is meat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Eating predators is supposedly less healthy than plant eating animals for a few reasons. As I understand it, carnivores have a notably higher level of parasites, they share diseases with other carnivores more readily than herbivores, and they’re more lean and the meat is more tough/stringy.

There’s also a realistic level of sustainable effort to farm raise a carnivore vs a herbivore. https://www.britannica.com/science/trophic-level

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should we open dog farms to create more jobs?

China already does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dog meat in China is considered taboo and is something actively fought nowadays, it's mostly popular among the eldest and resented by the youngest. And even then, there is only one (1) place in China where a dog meat festival happens. Yulin.

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3138158/rescue-68-dogs-headed-slaughterhouse-spotlights

It is also kind of dishonest to ignore South Korea which does in fact have industrial dog meat farms.

https://m.workplace.com/scmp/videos/south-korean-dog-meat-farmers-push-back-against-consumption-ban/1003013387714217/

And it is very dishonest to say that China does this on an industrial scale with the government supporting this.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3086813/dogs-are-pets-not-food-says-chinese-agriculture-ministry

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3090059/dog-meat-festival-opens-china-activists-hope-it-last-time

It unfortunately is also all over asia... Not just China. But fortunately, there is pushback from animal rights activists.

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2151975/asias-booming-dog-meat-business-and-activists-seeking-en

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not? I dont think that dog farms would be that profitable considering the price of dog food, but I dont see a reason why it should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

They're bad for dogs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dog farms are no more unethical than pig farms.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago