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CNN column about eating dogs sparks social media firestorm
. n: o0 }4 v, @' P- r* }$ c2 {by Lauren O'Neil Posted: July 25, 2014 1:10 PM Last Updated: July 25, 2014 1:13 PM
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! h8 e9 L* z7 j) y" AWhile many Canadians might shudder at the thought of consuming canine, in countries like South Korea and Vietnam, dog is a perfectly acceptable — and common — form of meat.
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2 ]% S8 g1 n9 }2 E) `" [" M" QAccording to the ASCPA, more than 1.2 million dogs each year are euthanized in the U.S. alone — dogs that could then potentially be consumed by people, argues CNN columnist John D. Sutter.! i+ D* a' G4 a" \& B, x9 ?
2 C+ y4 F0 Y1 x4 L"Here in the United States, a place with an unhealthy and ridiculously hipster bacon obsession, eating dog could be seen as a reasonable alternative to pig, which is another highly intelligent animal, capable of being a companion to the likes of George Clooney," wrote Sutter in a July 24 piece entitled "The argument for eating dog."
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"If we think dog shouldn't be eaten — like, ever, regardless of how clean the trade is and how quick the kill," he continued. "Then maybe we should think about the other animals we eat, and if and why we don't feel the same way about them." / W E) L7 G1 b# V3 v
, N9 b& P; e: \/ F ?- L* ZSutter goes on to suggest that eating euthanized animals — as in strays and pets — could be helpful both economically and ecologically.
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Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who wrote the book Eating Animals, is cited in the article as saying that "dogs are practically begging to be eaten."- P# }4 u( s) y7 D- W
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According to the author, euthanizing pets alone "amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year. The simple disposal of these euthanized dogs is an enormous ecological and economic problem. It would be demented to yank pets from homes. But eating those strays, those runaways, those not-quite-cute-enough-to-take and not-quite-well-behaved-enough-to-keep dogs would be killing a flock of birds with one stone and eating it, too."
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As Sutton's story spread around the web Thursday, many online expressed that they were uncomfortable with his suggestions.
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