why is it immoral and illegal to kill a dog or a cat but it is so usual for us to eat pigs, cows, chickens?

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Answer 1

We are so much brain washed that its gross to think it even.

But animals that eat with their hands are not supposed to be eaten.

Answer 2

Strictly a cultural thing, my friend.

In Western Civilizations, dogs are workers, and that gives them a position of honor, in as much as a bond is built up between a master and a dog. In the case of a hunting dog, eating him would be like biting the hand (or paw) that feeds us.

Cats, once worshiped as Gods by the Egyptians, got a bad rap in early Christian Europe as being "devilish.' After the plagues, cats became more popular, inasmuch as rats and other rodents became disliked.

Horses, to Anglo-Saxons descendants, are also revered, and eating them is considered disgusting, because of the work they have done for us.

Pigs, chickens, and cattle have been specifically bred throughout the ages to provide food, and their bodies and temperament show it. Some, indeed many of them, could not exist in the wild. Study the mating habits of the domesticated turkey if you have questions about this assertion...

Civilizations that have been exposed to repeated and widespread famines generally have not been in a position to develop a class of appreciated, productive, working animals such as dogs, cats, horses. They only do "food" animals.

However, all cultures who have domesticated animals for work, have also quickly fit in to making machines that do work. Animal husbandry is a technological step, because working animals have allowed the economic efficiencies and surpluses necessary for more technologically related human development.

For example: the guard dogs are protecting the back 40, so we don't have to. The cats are killing the mice, so the family isn't dead from bubonic plague. The horse is plowing the field will little Jimmy, so we don't all have to be out there....

And that's why Western people don't eat dog. Or cat. It's not cost effective.

Answer 3

The morality and legality is more related to inappropriate treatment than the killing. if pigs were a more common pet you would have been able to put them in the immoral/illegal category.

I don't know that it is really immoral to kill a dog or a cat as such but because we all have emotional ties to dogs and cats most tend to find it hard to cope with if they are killed. Some cultures dog and cat are valid food choices.

Answer 4

So far this year I have killed 1 jackrabbit, 31 ducks, and just today I killed a squirel. I killed the rabbit and the duck for sport and food. I killed the squirel, however, because it was suffering by a tree in my neigborhood. It was obviously going to die, so I took my shirt off, pick him up, took him home, and shoot him in the head and then the chest with my bee bee gun. Then I burried him in my yard. I feed the squirels in my neighborhood peanuts. They come in my house, and I pick them up and pet them. I like animals, but I also like to eat them. I don't mind killing an animal to eat it. I have even picked up fresh road kill (deer) so that I can eat it. That is no storey. I have killed all kinds of animals. I have also loved all kinds of animals. Who says it is immoral to kill a dog or a cat? I don't remember seeing that in the Bible. Thou shalt not smite dogs. Sorry, it's not there. If I was hungry enough, I would kill a dog and eat it. Why are you such a sissy? Go eat a hamburger and shut the hell up. You're a weakling who could never survive, if you are really so chicken s*$t. You never had your hands up in the rib cage of an animal. That's how it is done you know. You gotta pull the guts out. Take the skin off, and cut it up into meat. What about fish? You do that? Or, do you think food comes from the grocery store. There are only two things in the world to eat, animals and plants. I want both.

Answer 5

Because cats and dogs have been domesticated for millions of years. The ancient Egyptians thought of cats as Gods. So it would kind of be like killing and eating your friend. Pigs cows and chickens are traditionally farm animals and are bred for slaughter. Maybe they taste better than cats and dogs, I dont know how it transpired the way it did

Answer 6

Whether morality comes into it I don't know - but certainly it is illegal and goes against our cultural norms. It seems a bit strange when you understand that other animals may be as sentient as the ones we choose not to kill. Other cultures have different approaches as you are indeed aware.

Personally I and other choose not to eat any animals at all on that basis.

Answer 7

because cows ,chickens and pigs taste better than dogs and cats
but in the war in holland a lot of people ate both ,cxats were called roof rabbits.
Africans also eat cats
i once had 20 cats killed in one day ,as a permaculture action and to avenge all my dead chickes that the cats had killed
cats make exelent fertilizer to plant young trees upon .

and i like dogs ,but a lot of American Native people used to breed dogs for food ,the Eskimos also ate dog and so do the chinese ,but they eat everything that moves

Answer 8

Because meat butchered from pigs for public consumption is regulated by the FDA and USDA. Undomesticated animals are not. It is also illegal and immoral to have sex with children, for children to smoke or drink, etc. Society dictates our norms and we live our lives accordingly.

Answer 9

More of a societal thing. I mean at one time in Earth history dog and cats were not domesiticated. Its not ethical to kill a person's pet.

Answer 10

It is the method used to kill a dog that is illegal. A vet can kill a dog. A person working at the pound can kill a dog. But then they get payed to kill dogs. If your dog needs to be killed take him to the pound or to a vet. BB

Answer 11

I eat dogs and cats all the time. Never tried pig though.