As much as I LOVE dogs, I have to agree with Richard and Soledad.

We eat cows, sheep, chickens and pigs. We don't eat goats or horses. Why? Seems to be an arbitary "rule" to me.

In other places, goats, cats, dogs, monkeys and horses are routinely eaten. Who are we to say that eating a cow is ok, but eating a horse is not? By saying, "Eat this, don't eat this." one is effectively saying, "My culture is right, and yours is wrong." How arrogant and absurd. Eating cow is an abhorrant sin to Hindus. Yet we slaughter millions of cows, and none too humanely I might add. Who is right? Who is wrong?

I have no issue with eating meat. I personally wouldn't eat a monkey or a dog, but I'm certainly not going to demean someone who does. I DO, however, have an issue with killing an animal - be it a cow in the USA, a dog in Korea, or a guinea pig in Peru - for food in an inhumane manner. I think it is the LEAST we can do, as the top of the global foodchain, to at least provide a quick and merciful death to our meals, no matter what they may be.



Cockatiels and chickens are totally different animals! ... Chickens don't compare to parrots in anyway, except that they are both feathered and a species of birds.......but they are totally different in the *food* sense.
That makes no logical sense. They are totally different ... except for the fact that they are both birds. Ummm, ok. As to the "food" sense, again, that is cultural. Your "food sense" says it's ok to eat a chicken, and we have lots of chickens in the USA. A South American native's "food sense" says it's ok to eat a macaw, and they have lots of macaws in South America. What makes you right and him wrong?