“KIDS: If you wouldn’t eat your dog, why eat a turkey?"

[RickyJ]

People eat dogs, cats, rats, mice, you name it, somewhere someone eats it. Heck, people even eat people! PETA is nuts. If we didn't eat cows and turkeys and deer then they would be killed by other animals for food.

 

[dannno]

People eat dogs, cats, rats, mice, you name it, somewhere someone eats it. Heck, people even eat people! PETA is nuts. If we didn't eat cows and turkeys and deer then they would be killed by other animals for food.

Most of them wouldn't exist in the first place, if we didn't eat them.

 

[tod evans]

That girl looks like she could use a couple of turkey dinners.

Just googled "cute vegan" and picked the first one that didn't repulse me..

 

[Origanalist]

Just googled "cute vegan" and picked the first one that didn't repulse me..

Lol

 

[dannno]

PETA makes a good point here until you get too far into the bottom section:

They lose me when they say nobody should be eating pastured, well cared for animals. They almost act like well cared for animals don't exist, which kind of bothers me. It's fine if it is a personal choice, but the ones who want to ban it (I've met a lot of vegans, but none of the ones I've met have I ever heard them say they wanted to ban it, just the top-down organization PETA itself)

So not all PETA supporters believe that, many just look at it as a personal decision. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, one of the reasons I used to like being veggie was because I didn't have to feel guilty for killing animals. I don't think it is wrong to eat animals, per se, but there is certainly nothing wrong with NOT needing to eat animals. Everything else equal, why not? I've been eating primal for several months and I am enjoying it for the moment, I have no idea what I will choose for my future diet or if I will just sort of combine them both more at some point. I miss tofu sometimes.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

I see little difference in eating pig, dog, cat, cow, goat, duck... etc etc. IMO, any animal can become a pet. You can have a pet horse or a pet pig. Just because an animal is usually a pet, does not mean you cant/shouldnt eat them. ALTHOUGH, I wouldn't eat one that was someone's pet...

 

[Victor Grey]

I'm not a hypocrite for not being enthusiastic toward eating dogs, I just happen to have principles they disagree with.

Herd animals are meant to be eaten by something, it's part of their own natural selection process, and helps them as a species of creature. If it wasn't beneficial to them as a species to get eaten, they'd probably be a lot more aggressive toward threats. They'd also probably not be so easy for humans to domesticate, and select for all the positive aspects we want from them.

If that something eating them is humans, delicious.

What's more, herd animals are dumb. Their circuit board consists of "eat, poop, eat, group, eat, sex, eat, eaten" more simplistically than any omnivore or carnivore.
You're hardly harming a complex sentient creature when you eat a cow.

 

[awake]

You wouldn't eat your limited edition Elvis Chiapet, why would you eat a poor defenseless broccoli? Vegies have rights too... The Vegan murderers will get theirs some day...

 

[DerailingDaTrain]

Go vegan? Nah. I think I'll stick with this:

 

[seyferjm]

I am so sad that I won't be getting deep-fried turkey this year.

 

[matt0611]

Obama ate a dog at one point.

 

[Henry Rogue]

I hear police dogs taste like pork.

 

[tod evans]

Obama ate a dog at one point.

Michelle?

 

[Dr.3D]

Michelle?

Woof!

 

[John F Kennedy III]

1. We could make some puppy tacos. Preferably with clones of the Taco Bell dog.

2. Screw PETA! They kill 95% of the animals they get.

 

[Jamesiv1]

Dogs are actually fairly nasty beasts when you give it a little thought... fleas, licking their privates, sniffing and licking each other's buttholes, then coming over and licking your kid. ugh

Does any other culture on the planet treat dogs like "members of the family" the way we do here in the States?

Seems uniquely American.....

 

[malkusm]

In addition to the billboards, PETA also suggests turkey substitutes for a traditional bird, including the soy-based Tofurkey, as well as other soy-based recipes on their website.

Does this mean that PETA acknowledges that humans naturally like the taste of animals?

In other words....isn't PETA trying to change human nature, out of what amounts to a sense of guilt?

 

[tod evans]

Does this mean that PETA acknowledges that humans naturally like the taste of animals?

In other words....isn't PETA trying to change human nature, out of what amounts to a sense of guilt?

I give PETA less consideration than a glob of chicken shit on my boot..

 

[belian78]

Dogs are actually fairly nasty beasts when you give it a little thought... fleas, licking their privates, sniffing and licking each other's buttholes, then coming over and licking your kid. ugh

Does any other culture on the planet treat dogs like "members of the family" the way we do here in the States?

Seems uniquely American.....

Dogs have been a companion animal the world over throughout history. As far as the licking and all, I always heard that enzymes in a dog's saliva keeps their mouths as germ free as ours if not moreso. I would like to keep that assumption, so I won't try to confirm/deny. LOL

 

[angelatc]

Dogs are actually fairly nasty beasts when you give it a little thought... fleas, licking their privates, sniffing and licking each other's buttholes, then coming over and licking your kid. ugh

Does any other culture on the planet treat dogs like "members of the family" the way we do here in the States?

Seems uniquely American.....

It's really not. IMHO, the French love their dogs more than we do.