Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 24 2017 08:30pm)
Except, they can't. Pigs have not shared the same biological domestication that dogs have. You can have a pet pig, a pet iguana, pet cockatoo, pet gerbil, pet chimpanzee, pet rock. They don't share the same bond with humans that dogs do, because they didn't spend tens of thousands of years adapting their instinctual dispositions and psychology based on cohabitation with humans and selective breeding. All we did with pigs is find a breed that didn't gore us to death when used as livestock. Contrast the pet monkey, where it might live with you a decade and then decide to eat your face one day. The measure of whether its going to try to kill you or not doesn't really compare to the measure of whether the species is biologically hardwired to faithfully obey and defend you from birth to death.
I still fail to see why any of this means that a dog shouldn't be eaten. It's like saying that cows shouldn't be eaten, because we have bred cows to give us millions of liters of milk through thousands of years of selective breeding. Or that we shouldn't eat chicken, because those animals have gone through a selective breeding process so that they give us an egg each day.
They are animals. Some animals are the subject of a human's affection, and while I agree that it would not be nice to eat those individual animals, nobody can explain why we couldn't eat dogs that are nobody's pet.
This post was edited by Leevee on Dec 25 2017 04:48am
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