/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Most people would have some discomfort slaughtering any animal for their meal, whether they'll admit it or not. Dogs and cats are a little closer to home.

Domestic house animals do act differently than "food" animals or wild ones. If they come from a long line of domestic animals (versus say a stray you take in) they will be stupidly unguarded around humans, even when it comes to strangers. That is what bothers people; killing an animal that not only is kept as a pet, but doesn't even naturally see you as dangerous.

Also, eating carnivore meat is pretty pricey. Herbivore meat is already outrageous when you calculate how much corn each porker eats yearly, how about paying all that, then feeding a supply of grain-fed meat to a dog? As far as tropic levels of energy go, it's pretty silly to eat dog meat.

No shit no one wants to eat their pet, doesn't mean they wouldn't like to try what some already-prepared dog or cat tastes like.

Also, there are countless amounts of animal cruelty in cooking.

Foie gras, or "Fatty liver of a duck or goose force fed via corn tube shoved down their throats"

or the infamous ortolans

"For centuries, a rite of passage for French gourmets has been the eating of the Ortolan. These tiny song birds—captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac—were roasted whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and to hide from God."

Even the domestic meat industry is terribly and disgustingly abusive and filthy. The animals are kept so tightly packed and sick, they need to be constantly fed anti-biotics to keep them alive to slaughter day.

To continue to survive, you need to kill some other organism and process it into energy. I'm sorry there's no such thing as inanimate food.

I have a cat less than two feet from me and I still don't give a fuck.

Do you have any idea what we do to our farm animals? They have to feed them a constant stream of anti-biotics just so they'll live to see the slaughterhouse. They are raised in pens so small they must remain unmoving and standing and they still come to the killing floor with uncountable injuries sustained from they living environment or the cruel way they are thrown around before being killed.

That being said, what do you expect when you have this many damned people?We don't give a fuck about the welfare of our food, because it's already dead and shrinkwrapped in our heads.

But god forbid some yellow bastard wants to eat a PET. I mean, here in the US where stray cats and dogs are rampant and pounds are overflowing, we understand that even unwanted animals deserve to be humanely euthanized and then have the body thrown in a dumpster and left whole, uneaten and untainted.