monday mystery pet foods

Monday Mystery: Pet foods

Why is it that people who eat meat, are often appalled at the idea of

someone eating an animal they would think of as a pet, like a cat or

dog? I mean, it's widely accepted that a pig is as intelligent and

emotional a creature as a dog, so what's that about?

Having dinner in a restaurant with the boyf on Saturday night, I

overheard the following snippet from the table opposite...

"Oh David's going for the swordfish. You'll eat anything won't you

David?"

"I suppose so [puffs chest out], I don't have any food prejudices."

Food prejudices. Great. So, eating a threatened species of fish is a

virtue to this guy is it? I suppose I'd be like some kind of Nazi for

thinking that's best avoided am I? What with all my Food Prejudices

and stuff.

And then he goes...

"When I went on a survival expedition we ate all kinds of things."

And his friend says...

"What, so would you even eat cats and dogs?"

Am I missing something? Surely cats and dogs are not in trouble as

species are they?

I dunno, it's a Monday mystery to Buckley. What say you?

Posted by Julia Buckley at 5:54 PM