SecretsLive wrote:Dog are now being breed to be companions, think of chihuahuas and yorkies, were they bred to not mbe companions? Dogs are companion animals now. Not food. I don't care what you guys say, yes I agree that horses are no better than cows and dogs are no better than anything else, but have you ever seen a cow rescue a person from a frozen pond? Dogs save people and were bred over many years to become companions, from hunter to friend. Yes, pigs are very intelligent, but honestly, is it my fault that we eat them? Nope. Attack someone else.
If getting a response with another argument against yours is what you consider attacking, you should consider not to participate in a discussion like this. People are just proving their point as well as you do, no one is attacking you. But if you want to take part in a debate, then you have to be ready for the fact that someone might disagree with you with their own arguments. No one have ever given you the responsibility for any animal, you are only responsible for your stated opinions.
As you might know, dogs are a common food source in places like Vietnam, but the dogs they use for food is actually a special breed of dog ONLY bred for the purpose of eating, not for a pet.
You simply can't point out a single specie of animals and claim that they have never been bred for the purpose of food. Almost all animals all around the world are eaten in one way or another. There is no secret animals that no one eats, unless its because they just don't taste very well or don't have enough meat on them.
But just because we in the west breed certain types of species to be pets, doesn't meant that they aren't bred as food somewhere else in the world.
What a dog can do just doesn't justify that it's more important than other lives, it's all a matter of how we use an animal. A crow for example is ten times more intelligent than a dog, yet most people see that bird as an annoying animal that most people shoot to get rid of. A crow and a pig have a lot of potential, we just don't choose to use it.
The only thing that separates a dog from any other animal that we eat, is the pure luck that the dog was once chosen to be a "companion" as you call it (But as mentioned before, the dog was only bred for huting purposes in the beginning. I hate to break it to you, but there were no greater feelings for animals back then, and no one would hesitate to eat their family dog if it no longer did them any good). Since there is so many other animals that have more potential for a lot of things rather than a dog, a dog can only be considered lucky because it just happens to be an animal that some (not all! Remember vietnam) see as a companion, although that animal could just as well be anything other than a dog.
If things were different, and we had bred pigs for pets for centuries and dogs were only bred for food, and never in the history of the world had been bred for anything other than food, your arguments would most likely be "Its wrong to eat a pig because its a companion", and no one would ever question eating a dog.
Just found this really suitable quote for this debate:
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
