Eating Organically Farmed Puppies – No Moral Objection?

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According to TV chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall in a magazine interview, he would have 'no moral objection' to eating a puppy provided it was reared in an organic farm environment. The chefs comments come on the back of previous campaigns to raise awareness about animal welfare in farms. The debate over eating dog meat has [...]Eating Organically Farmed Puppies – No Moral Objection? is a post from: My Dog Magazine



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[Stuart]

I hear that Whittingstall men taste wonderfull if fed on sausages from the age of two,..I would have no moral objection to cooking one over an open fire if there was a plentiful supply of tomato sauce

[RainbowLass]

hee hee, i had this conversation with my dad and my sister just this morning and you know what? I think its daft.

We all eat meat, right?
and we're all at the top of the food chain, right?

We eat lamb, calf and venison.
What makes eating a puppy all that different apart from the fact that its cute and fluffy and lies at our feet with those big brown soppy eyes....

Some of us eat rabbit. (thumper)

Just because its cute and fluffy doesn't mean it needs to cause an uproar when someone says that he'd eat one.

I was vegetarian for a long time until i had my daughter and an illness that i have now means that a balanced diet is really important so i made the difficult decision to eat meat again. I always would have eaten meat if i could guarantee the conditions that meat was farmed and raised but without actually visiting the farms it all came from i found it demoralising and impossible to be sure that the animal i was eating had been well treat.
Eggs are a prime example. 'free range' just means no cages. Just a huge barn and feeding troughs instead. Still a horrendous life for a chicken.
Its an awful fact of our society that we really don't know where our food comes from and if we DID, 9 times out of 10 we wouldn't eat it. Labelling is deceptive to make us THINK we're doing the right thing when all it really does is give the manufacturer an excuse to hike the price for all the sheeple who loove to eat 'organic'
The only way we can ensure 'organic' by the way is to grow the stuff ourselves.

wow. rant over i'll put my soap box away now!!!

oh, and Mr Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall? Your'e a media whore.....

[Jude]

I don't have a problem with eating any sort of herbivorous animal but would definitely not be happy to eat a carnivore, be it dog, cat, big cat etc - in nature generally speaking carnivores do not eat other carnivores. I think Mr F-W likes to seek publicity by making outrageous suggestions.

[Caryll]

Originally Posted by Stuart

I hear that Whittingstall men taste wonderfull if fed on sausages from the age of two,..I would have no moral objection to cooking one over an open fire if there was a plentiful supply of tomato sauce