If you had a chance to, would you eat a dog?

[onesteptwostep]

Or a cat maybe? Or maybe cats are off limits...

All that fuss about horsemeat in that other topic got my Ne working ^^

Anyway this is how they serve it back in my home country (South Korea):
[BIMG]http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/img_1301_0388.jpg[/BIMG]

And like this as well:

Bon appetit or no appetite?

 

[Sinny91]

Grim, I'd rather turn veggie.

 

[TheManBeyond]

I'm totally sure i would

 

[Puffy]

If I'm on a diet where I eat meat I don't see any reason in principle why I wouldn't try out any dish once (I don't know if I could eat cat actually, I think they've successfully planted mind-controlling parasites in my brain ).

I have slowly been moving towards vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian experimentation for a year now though and expect to continue with it for health and personal reasons.

If I was in South Korea I probably would try dog once just to see what the fuss is about though.

 

[Alias]

I wouldn't try it because I have no reason to. At gunpoint, I probably would.

 

[Pyropyro]

The meat was a bit too tough for my taste. Goat meat is better if properly prepared.

 

[TBerg]

I have actually eaten dog as well as rabbit, pigeon, snake, snail, donkey, and all kinds of body parts in China. Stereotypes are real.

 

[TheManBeyond]

i find this same question on this next topic much more morally entertaining:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/04/beware-rim-jobs-are-on-the-rise.html

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

No, unless I didn't have access to my usual diet.
I would probably eat human flesh if at the time I had a particular desire to live and if it was the only food around and 'it' died of starvation or other unfortunate natural causes. But I'd rather have it cooked.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't mentally be able to butcher it, so I'd need some help with that. But eating a prepared meal with controversial flesh under right circumstances wouldn't bother me that much, it's already past the moment that person could receive any aid and their body can be of use to the survivors.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

I'd try it, I just wouldn't expect it to taste very good because it's a carnivore. It would probably have to be a spicy preparation, which I assume is what is shown in the OP.

I can verify that black bear is pretty damn good, but they're omnivores.

Why let a resource go to waste?

 

[Yellow]

I'm pretty closed-minded when it comes to what critters I'm willing to eat. Call me childish, but I can barely cope with eating the animals that I've been indoctrinated to accept. I'll eat cow, bison, chicken, turkey, cod, halibut, and pig. I've eaten elk, deer, sturgeon, salmon, trout, flounder, rabbit, and lamb and don't care for them. I would be willing to branch out to try horse, duck, peacock, moose, lobster, crab, goat, turtle, and alligator if I had to, to be polite. But those my limits outside a survival situation. Nope, nope, nope.

 

[Brontosaurie]

a dog seems like half measures. if i'm gonna eat a carnivore i want to eat a carnivore that eats carnivores etc ad infinitum. i want the meat systemically refined with no traces of vegetable.

 

[Pyropyro]

I'd try it, I just wouldn't expect it to taste very good because it's a carnivore. It would probably have to be a spicy preparation, which I assume is what is shown in the OP.

Yup. The meat is best prepared with spices. I think ginger can help mitigate some of its stench.

 

[Yellow]

i find this same question on this next topic much more morally entertaining:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/04/beware-rim-jobs-are-on-the-rise.html

Well that's one thing I check off my bucket list: reading an article that ends with "we can use their tongues as toilet paper".

 

[Polaris]

I've eaten Emu, Elk, Venison, Goat, various wild birds, Sea Urchin, Sea Cucumber, Polar Bear, Seal, Whale, snails, and worms. Plus an array of other stuff in my travels around the world. I lived in South Korea as a kid, so I sampled a lot of unusual stuff from the sea. I am hesitant with meat that is stinky, Polar Bear was stinky and tasted badly of fish oil, so if dog is stinky I would be hesitant for that reason alone. However, if I was hungry enough I would probably like Blarr, eat anything including human flesh if it came to that point of desperation. We don't know what we are capable of in times of desperation. It's easy to be picky and ethical in the First World....

Lately I have considered a return to vegetarianism, because it is easy and cheap, and my digestive system does not cope with much meat. Also, suddenly having two cats in the house has made me more aware of the compassionate aspect.

 

[J-man]

After seeing those pictures, I don't know. Maybe if I hated the dog.

 

[Pyropyro]

Spoiler

Or a cat maybe? Or maybe cats are off limits...

All that fuss about horsemeat in that other topic got my Ne working ^^

Anyway this is how they serve it back in my home country (South Korea):
[BIMG]http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/img_1301_0388.jpg[/BIMG]

And like this as well:

Bon appetit or no appetite?

I totally want to visit your country now. I only sampled your noodles and vegetable dishes so far and I'm quite impressed.

 

[Reluctantly]

If the food is cooked well, yes. I would try just about anything. I couldn't eat body parts that were whole parts, such as an eyeball. It would have to be cut up and cooked appropriately. Presentation, smell, and flavor are all important to me. I'd try human flesh, but it seems to bother people so much that I don't imagine I'll ever do it; I think it would bother most people to know their loved one's body was butchered for a meal. Eating a body probably dehumanizes or objectifies people by seeing them as food. Perhaps that's easier done on animals.

 

[onesteptwostep]

I totally want to visit your country now. I only sampled your noodles and vegetable dishes so far and I'm quite impressed.

Ah, well Korea's history goes back for about 4 millennia so the cuisine there is pretty cultured. I'm not too into it myself but yeah, I guess it's worth recommending. The food there is really savory and deep- I think "earthly spicily" would be a good way to put it.

I'd recommend getting bibimbap and bul-gogi while you're at it too, if you do ever go. If you want something fun you can try san-nakji. One dish I think is somewhat of a 'signatory dish' of Korea is the samgyetang, but I guess it depends on who you talk to. Typically speaking kids are mostly into chicken and beer lol

 

[Minuend]

If necessary for surviving, I'd eat any edible meat. Though, as long as I don't have to for survival, I don't really eat meat.

Edito: I guess I'll elaborate for those that find straight yes/ no answers a bit on the dull side. I know I do.

After getting cats I started liking cats more (cat pics/ gif ftw). I got to observe how they behaved, reacted. Like how one of my cats will be the first one to rush out and fight with a neighbor cat, but in the presence of a human child it will be very patient even though it doesn't like being followed by them. If not left alone, he will eventually let out a disgruntled meow. And if still not left alone and unable to leave, hit the child with a paw (no claws).

Even though not thinking exactly like humans, animals do have some concept of "controlling their feels", reacting differently according to situation.
They have a concept of them being one thing, and you being another. Like when they want to go outside. They know that for their consciousnesses to feel/ be outside they have to stare intently at that long tall thing until it goes to the door.

They also seem to have something like moods. They will change sleeping places, like going from the couch to a chair to the windows to the bed to a lap. Sometimes when you poke them lying there they will be disgruntled, other times they want to be petted.

Also observing their eyes reveals different types of mind states. It's kinda interesting trying to envision what/ how they think based on what they look like/ react.

Again, I'm not saying they are tiny humans, merely that the type of consciousnesses they seem to have is enough to put me off eating them. And I know similar behavior and consciousnesses is present in the typical farm animals as in pets. So I don't really see a difference in eating dog or cow in itself. I don't care whether people eat meat, and I wont suddenly care when they say they eat dog. (Of course in some cases you could argue one animal being treated worse than the other, which is a separate issue from eating the animal alone).

I don't necessarily see it as wrong to eat animals, I don't tend to like the surroundings we make for them to grow up in, however. And I personally don't feel a need to eat them.

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Of course.

 

[Sixup]

Would try it.

I don't know if I would ever try brains or raw blood like they do in some places though. Mostly the texture of stuff like that gets me.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

i don't eat meat but would consider eating anything edible that was already dead (including meat of "long pigs") in order to survive. if it came down to a "my life or theirs" survival situation i obviously can't say for sure what i'd do but it would take some pretty extreme circumstances for me to contemplate killing another sentient being and i'm not even sure i could kill an animal that wasn't attacking me. i know quite a bit about edible wild plants and would do whatever i could to avoid taking life in order to temporarily sustain my own.

the western squeamishness about the consumption of the meat of certain animals arises partly because some of them are commonly kept as pets. the bond that the human feels with the pet seems to extend to a degree to all others of the species but for some reason the possibilty of the formation of similar bonds with other ("food") species does not seem to occur to many/most humans.

in the instances where the intelligence of certain animals influences their exclusion from being considered food commodities the western distaste for their consumption seems even less logical since the consumption (and barbarous production) of the meat of animals such as pigs which are demonstrably more intelligent than the meat of animals which are on the taboo list does not seem to pose a moral dilemma for many/most humans.

 

[Pyropyro]

Would try it.

I don't know if I would ever try brains or raw blood like they do in some places though. Mostly the texture of stuff like that gets me.

We do have pig brain and cooked blood dishes here in the Philippines. You should try them sometimes.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

No

Lately I have considered a return to vegetarianism, because it is easy and cheap, and my digestive system does not cope with much meat.

I'm the same. And I've been this way for as long as I can remember. The only type of meat I can "stomach" is beef(especially when it's ground beef). I can't eat it if it even remotely resembles a body part. My stomach starts to churn and I feel like throwing up when I see fish or whatever being cut up.

I'm very sensitive to the pain of other sentient beings so I'm pretty sure even in extreme conditions I wouldn't be able to cut up and cook an animal or a person myself unless I've experienced some kind of serious mind-break and I'm not myself anymore

 

[Sixup]

We do have pig brain and cooked blood dishes here in the Philippines. You should try them sometimes.

Ahh I don't know if I could do it. I'd imagine the brains would have to be chopped up and spiced pretty well. So in that case... maybe...

But blood...? Even cooked it's probably thick and goopy and gritty... I don't know.

 

[Priest_Azrael]

Yeah, but to be honest some breeds taste funnier than others.