On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:40:43 AM UTC-5, Phred wrote:
> In article >,
> wrote:
> >On 10/12/2011 8:36 AM, Stephen Newport wrote:
> >> (Sky News) - British TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall claimed that
> >> eating puppy meat is no more morally objectionable than consuming pork.
> >>
> >> The celebrity chef previously shocked viewers by eating placenta pate,
> >> curried fruit bat, giraffe and calf testicles and now claims that he
> >> would not be against a "high-welfare organic puppy farm."
> >>
> >> Fearnley-Whittingstall, the star of Channel 4's "River Cottage," was
> >> asked by British magazine Radio Times whether he would try loin of
> >> Labrador or cat liver.
> >>
> >> "Not unless I was on the point of starvation," he replied. "In principle,
> >> but not in practice, I have no objection to a high-welfare organic puppy
> >> farm."
> >>
> >> He added, "You can't object, unless you also object to the farming of
> >> pigs. It's an artificial construct of our society, a cultural decision,
> >> to make pets out of dogs and meat out of pigs. Both animals could be used
> >> the other way round, although pigs probably do make better meat than dogs
> >> and dogs better pets than pigs, but it's not a foregone conclusion.
> >
> >The Vietnamese Pot-bellied (or miniature) Pig makes quite a good pet but
> >I don't refuse pork. Given the long intertwined evolutionary development
> >of dogs and people, I think dogs deserve to be respected. See the recent
> >PBS documentary.
>
> I haven't seen anything from PBS (whatever that is :-) but I read a
> paper recently on the domestication of animals in general in which it
> was suggested dogs may have domesticated us, rather than the other way
> around.

PBS is American public TV. The documentary is excellent.
>
> That said, I've often maintained that I couldn't eat an animal with
> such noxious shit as a dog!

I assume you've never found yourself downwind from a pig farm.
>
> Cheers, Phred.

--Bryan