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Weird Question

  • 01-02-2009 1:26pm
    #1
    animalcrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭


    I keep rabbits and I know it's not illegal to kill and eat my rabbits if I wanted to (not that I would), but, is it illegal for me to kill and eat my dog (not that I would)? If so then I think that's a bit screwed up, all animals should have the same treatment. I don't know what made me think of this question but anyway.


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  • #2
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    I don't think that there is any explicit law making it illegal to eat any sort of animal ...or is there?


  • #3
    sorella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭sorella


    Seems to be custom and culture. When we lived in the Scottish islands, the locals were often incredulous that we found the idea of eatling seal meat unacceptable. It was in their history.

    so we asked them if they would eat their dog; after all the Chinese eat dog.

    Stunned silence.

    And in the US many cat and dog foods are made up of.... cat and dog.

    But imagine serving it ...

    and of course in famine times...


  • #4
    Gauge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    sorella wrote: »
    And in the US many cat and dog foods are made up of.... cat and dog.

    Don't misrepresent information like this. That amounted to rumours and hearsay. It was NEVER a case of 'many cat and dog foods' containing cat and dog meat.
    Because of persistent rumors that rendered by-products contain dead dogs and cats, the FDA conducted a study looking for pentobarbital, the most common euthanasia drug, in pet foods. They found it. Ingredients that were most commonly associated with the presence of pentobarbital were meat-and-bone-meal and animal fat. However, they also used very sensitive tests to look for canine and feline DNA, which were not found. Industry insiders admit that rendered pets and roadkill were used in pet food some years ago.

    http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?p=359&more=1


  • #5
    animalcrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭animalcrazy


    Ya I'm just wondering would it be legal for me to keep a couple of dogs out my back and kill and eat them , obviously I'm not planning on doing that, I just never hear of people eating dogs, even though we have chinese people and all that who would eat dogs in China


  • #6
    Jack B. Badd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    Wouldn't most pet rabbits be too fatty to make good eating...?


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  • #7
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    animalcrazy wrote: »
    Ya I'm just wondering would it be legal for me to keep a couple of dogs out my back and kill and eat them , obviously I'm not planning on doing that, I just never hear of people eating dogs, even though we have chinese people and all that who would eat dogs in China

    A tad racist!!!

    Locking this thread before it gets nasty - watch out OP as I am seriously considering banning you for trolling!!


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