Juicy's Blog of the Day: Dog -- the Other White Meat?
 

http://www.juicylinks.com/blog/archives/000017.html

Money quote:
The real problem here is the diverse and often irreconcilable food cultures of the world. Who determines what should and shouldn?t be eaten?

I've often pondered about this before. I mean, we eat cow, what if in Korea they think that is wrong. I mean different cultures eat different stuff and there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing different from eating dog to eating cow, to eating fish. It's meat and it tatse different, but there is not reason to stop one culture from eating what it wants!

jDoG

i have two indian(from india, not native americans) friends that think im evil for eating cow

Exactly my point - the cow is a scared animal in india!

jDoG

Who gives a shit? Let them eat dog in there own country, just let them know if they come to ours (western nations) we will no accept the same.

:1orglaugh WTF has it got to be SCARED of, it aint going to end up in a Big Mac!

Good points, Jdog. To take an extreme but REAL example, some Taoist subsects believe that eating ginger, garlic, or even onions is bad.... so its all cultural.

exactly. live and let live

I don't think we actually "determine" it. However I think anyone can complain about it no harm in that.

Like someone pointed out, it's all fine and dandy if it's going on in your neck of the woods, but if it happens to get caught on news footage during the olympics *kinda like it did with seoul* and it hurts your tourism...then that's price you pay for people voting with their $'s.

well in my house i determine it and i'm pretty damned determined not to eat dog

same here... but live and let live, let the local culture decide.

it's no big deal, dog taste like chicken :glugglug

doesn't everything taste like chicken? supposedly lizard tastes like chicken if not overcooked.

Lizard is greasier, fattier meat. I'll stick with chicken.