Eating dogs in China...

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Yet people are okay with seeing cows and pigs transported by tractor trailers, stacked nose to tail,  ALIVE,  on their way to some slaughterhouse.

Interesting how ones views seem to change when talking about specific types of animals.

Funnily enough but I don't see the SPCA championing for livestock in any of their commercials. Just poor little dogs and cats. I guess livestock just doesn't have the cuteness factor that dogs and cats have.

There's just slight differences I've noticed.  The dogs I saw literally looked like someone had stuffed clothing in a rusty cage like you would cram clothing into a suitcase.  You just notice they're actually alive dogs when you see random dog faces sticking out amongst the fur.

The killing methods I've seen are being boiled alive, set on fire, beaten to death, skinned alive.

I suppose overall though there's not much difference besides the presentation of it all.  They have a festival for it but we keep it quiet and do it in factories behind closed doors.

Cattle are herded into a chute and knocked on the back of the skull, rendering then unconscious, in the US. Death is immediately after that. They're dumb brutes, walking into it. If the person using the "knocker" misses, they can get the shit kicked out of them, so they need to be careful. I guess seeing all that happen would make more people into vegetarians or vegans. I would still eat meat. I was raised on it, and enjoy the taste and texture...though what my mom did to meat was a crime. To my knowledge, "being boiled alive, set on fire, beaten to death, skinned alive" are not something done in the US. Though I will admit that grabbing a cricket by the "face" and removing the alimentary canal to avoid potential sickness may count. The rest is just protein, and you can pick your teeth with the legs.