Eat a dog, catch rabies?

Easy to say there are a million moral and ethical arguments against eating dogs; but that's a gross exageration. There are no more arguments against eating a dog than there are for eating a cow, a pig, a goat, or a chicken.

We are not talking about killing and eating a family pet. You don't slaughter and eat your pets because they exist for emotional benefit. Pets learn to trust, empathize, and interact with their human owners. But animals farmed for meat don't fall in that category. A dog raised in a pen, or free range, on grains for most of it's life, kept disease free, and then properly butchered and cooked, is just as tasty as any other animal.

It's real easy as a well-fed westerner to point at someone from China, or a third world nation, and tell them it's wrong to eat a dog, or a cat, a guinea pig, or a rat. However, these animals are important sources of protein for these people. Protein absolutely necessary for proper development and functioning as humans at our optimum levels. Take away those sources of protein and you are deliberately condemning those people to functioning at a subhuman level.

Dr Zini is making the usual argument that a dog is 'just another animal'. In doing this he reveals himself to be an ignoramus.
The relationship between humans and dogs may well be older than civilization itself. And it was always a partnership. Dogs were and have been the guardians and friends of man, and to this day are loyal and intelligent creatures that perform many vital roles in society. They are also unquestionably true companions as any dog owner with half a brain can attest.

To eat dogs is as disgusting as cannibalism and a treacherous betrayal of the ancient relationship we have with these noble animals.

Chickens, beef cattle and so on are not seen as companion animals. We see dogs and cats as companion animals and dog farming in the same light as puppy mills in the US. I don't feel the same way about guinea pigs, though I've had them as pets. Find some other source of protein, like fish, or chicken.

It is entirely wrong to say that the best protein source comes from a plant as that is not true with regard to omnivores. One out of every five adults cannot secure this plant protein as they cannot digest the gluten that comes with that protein. You have to face facts and that is biologically human beings are omnivores and it is dangerous for the vast majority of people to eat a strict vegan diet. You can and will do irreparable damage to your brain and internal organs by following a strict vegan diet over a long period of time. We already know from cults that the first step to controlling the mind is to starve the body of protein. Yes, you can eat a strict vegan diet and not die as not everyone is alike, but many small children die every year from the lack of protein from meat and many more thousands of children die from eating plant based protein due to the gluten. Cultural differences abound around this world and for you to show a lack of respect to another culture is wrong on so many levels. Your view that the dog as a species should not be eaten is your cultural biase, just as is not eating horse although the Europeans find horse meat very good to eat. This animal rights business is an attempt to put people not on a higher plane or even a level plane with animals who will eat anything, but at a lower level by telling this species the human species that it cannot eat anything but plants. You attempt to make people feel emotionally guilty that they eat meat by selling the public on sentient being theory. But what are you going to do when you use pain as a line in the sand for what we can and cannot eat. It is not a good standard since it does not take into account the needs of human beings and it is a false one because based upon that standard we can and have proved that plants feel pain. They scream upon the approach of the knife and scream louder when cut. Just because it takes a special sound detection system for the human being to hear it does not mean plants do not feel pain or know pain is coming which my friend is more than the animal knows and understands. It is your belief system and this article is about controlling what others believe by implying rare occurrances are common in eating such meat. It is all about not eating sick or down animals is the real point. This is basically a new religion and not everyone believes in it. The real problem for America is the hero adrenaline junkies who are "rescuing" feral dogs from other countries that have rabies and other parasites not found in the US. They bring these rabid or diseased dogs back to this country and place them with families. This has and is happening more frequently since rescue groups skirt quarrantine and only keep these animals for 48 hours before "adopting" them out to the unsuspecting public. Now we have canine rabies back in the US and many more parasites we never had before. This kind of do gooderism is devastating to the wild animals in this country who have no immunity to these tropical diseases and parasites. We have no way of stopping heart worm from getting into the wild animal population which was brought in via vietnam and now we have canine rabies coming in from India and Asia in very uncontrolled situations. Do you know where that puppy came from you just adopted? Probably not as most east coast states are now shipping in from out of the country thousands of small dogs and puppies in the past year alone. Over a hundred thousand feral dogs have been shipped in in the last five years and this is increasing. We know were the purebred dogs come from as those kennels are inspected and the majority of those are in Europe. But these feral strays coming in from Iraq, India, Mexico, and Asia carry with them diseases we don't even know how to combat. These are not lost pets in these countries they are wild dogs roaming the country eating garbage or the dead children lying alongside the roads. I have seen these dogs tearing apart the dead in the rural areas where people are starving to weak to bury their dead. Instead of worrying about dogs you should be focusing on the children in these countries.
We do not allow other animals into this country without knowing where they come from or have been and we should not be allowing these rescue groups to fly in such diseased wild dogs as the damage to the public and to the dogs already born in this country let alone the wild animals is devastating. There are also a million moral and ethical arguments to keep these dogs out of the US and also to use them as a source of protein in countries where such practices can keep people from starving to death. One little aspect the animal rights people fail to tell everyone is that there is not enough land to feed everyone on plant material. Animals actually eat and digest stuff we cannot eat or digest thus manufacturing protein in their bodies that we can digest. That is biology and philosophy cannot get around biology.