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 Is the eating of dog immoral and should there be a crack-down on the Yulin Festival? (16)

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Is the eating of dog immoral and should there be a crack-down on the Yulin Festival?

In response to the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in China, there are some that say 'eating dog is akin to pork and beef' or 'why does one animal life value more than the other?' when the argument against the barbaric Yulin dog meat trade starts. Firstly, both cows and pigs are both herbivores. Herbivores are cheaper to breed and raise than carnivores (dogs) as they do not require any meat and can live off the land. Therefore anyone that uses the excuse "it's cheaper" (like most at the Yulin Festival) do not chalk up to the evidence. Pigs have shown to outperform 3 year old children on cognitive tests for their intelligence but they cannot perform the sheer number of intelligent capabilities that canines possess: meaning a dead pig is more useful to us as meat than that of a dog, making dogs more valuable when they're alive. Dogs have evolved with us for an estimated 32,000 years and there's many reasons they are known as man's best friend. They've all served as Mobility assistance, hearing dogs, guide dogs, seizure alerts, psychiatric service, autism dogs, dogs that can detect allergies, search and rescue, herding, sled dogs, mascots, therapy, hunting/flushing, guarding, detection/cadaver detection, war dogs and ultimately faithful companions and entertainment. Cows and pigs may be intelligent, however their value is dwarfed by that of many dogs. Given that all dogs cannot perform all or even any of these tasks without proper training, it is simply archaic and barbaric to see them crammed into cages before being taken off for a brutal, painful, inhumane death and butchery at the hands of street sellers. These animals are so intelligent that their impending doom while crammed in that cage makes it all the worse.
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Different cultures different traditions......................................

PickYourIll(6) Disputed
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Not a good enough excuse really. Slavery was once part of a lot of cultures...

As long as the species isnt endangered I cant see a reason to discriminize against animals.

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Humans are far from endangered.

shoutoutloud(4303) Clarified
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but thats cannibalism and sometimes murder so ... that doesnt count

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It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man .. but what proceeds out of the mouth . . .

this defiles the man .. Matthew 15:11 .... audio file

You don't have to travel to China to find immoral things.

Here in America Democrats support no restriction abortions of viable babies for any reason up to birth.

Any Democrat that has a problem with eating dogs, but not aborting viable babies, is the biggest inhuman hypocrite on this Earth.

cownbueno(407) Disputed
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My god you're a broken record, I swear you must have dreams about createdebate seeing as every single time you comment regardless of the preexisting topic you have to throw in either the words "Abortion, Obama (I know it's a name), and some variation of the word hypocrisy.

FromWithin(8241) Disputed
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Speaking of a fool who would sooner allow the killing of viable babies for any reason rather than eating dogs.

LOL, do you ever look inside yourself? Are you so totally brainwashed to this self love progressivism?

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Well, it's a ''dog eat dog'' world we live in, so I don't see the problem.

Because dogs are kept as pets by us humans shouldn't place them in a more privileged position than other animals.

Think how more interesting and extensive the choice the menu of an average western restaurant would be if we ate dogs.

Fillet de German Shepherd, sirloin of Corgi and so forth.