5 Good Reasons to Eat your Dog
Hello, I'm Omer Barnea. Here are 5 reasons why you should eat your dog:
"5 Good Reasons to Eat your Dog"
"Because it's healthier!"
If you substitute dog or cat for the cuts of chicken that you bite into, you can be sure that your body will thank you. The animals that you're used to eating were raised in industrial factories, where each animal gets just enough room for the width of its body. Extended periods of time in cramped conditions, without movement, are responsible for the production of huge quantities of saturated fat and cholesterol, which collect over time in your body, and significantly increase the risk of diseases such as high blood pressure, osteoporosis, heart disease, breast cancer, uterine cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and more...
In contrast to all those sick farm animals, your dog's living conditions are much better. Even if he's only been running around between the walls of your home, he's been burning much more fat than any cow or chicken available in the supermarket near your home. In addition, you know exactly what goes into your dog's body. But you can't know which hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals have been injected into cuts of meat when they were still alive.
Because it's more ethical!
Animals that you eat have gone through a long litany of torture and suffering that are impossible to fully describe in a short film. That said: on the tip of your fork are calves separated from their mothers at birth, and imprisoned in narrow wooden crates, so that they can't move and their meat will stay white and soft. Chicken's beaks are cut short in the first days of their lives, and afterwards they're imprisoned for the rest of their lives in crates where they can't even stretch their wings. Geese have breathing problems, because their swollen livers press on their lungs, splitting their digestive tracts. And there are many more different kinds of tortures. The Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer chillingly summed up this existence, saying, “For the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” Your dog, in contrast to these pathetic farm animals, didn't suffer continuous torture over the course of his life. Rather, he had a warm house, a hand to pet him, and space in which to move his body as he wished.
Because it's better for the environment!
The meat industry is one of the biggest producers of land, air, and water pollution. The industry consumes 50 times more water than the amount required to grow plant-based food. Methane gas, discharged by farm animals, is one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect.
"One cow releases 60 liters of methane a day."
The emissions of billions of farm animals pollute the land and water of the planet, and cause acid rain. The expansion of cattle grazing fields for the food industry is steadily destroying the rain forests in South America and in other places. The furry member of your household, compared to this kind of industry, seems like Earth's best friend.
Because it's more just!
Think for a minute about the hard day of the people employed in this industry, most in exploitative conditions. Did it ever cross your mind what a person goes through, who, with his own hands, is forced to slaughter an animal wildly fighting for its life, to supply you with a product neatly packaged in plastic? Can you imagine the psychological issues of people that are forced to cut off more than 400 chick beaks an hour? Or to use a metal pipe to stuff corn directly into the stomachs of geese? Or to sear a number with a white hot branding iron into the back of a cow as she's held still with a restraint? Or to stuff chickens into tiny crates on the backs of trucks for transport? So, the conclusion is simple - justice demands that we do some of the dirty work ourselves, in order to earn the meal than walks on 4 legs in our homes.
Because it's more natural!
From the dawn of history people ate dogs and cats. In many communities in the Far East, dog and cat meat is considered a delicacy to this day. Even if, in your immediate environment, someone is likely to think that the killing and eating of house pets are monstrous acts, we're talking about an essentially natural act. The predator kills the prey. Just like in the jungle. This is in contrast to the industrial methods used in the meat industry, where mechanization and automation have banished all the beauty embodied in the human contact with the essential ingredients of the meal. What's natural must also be good, no?
Have I convinced you to eat Rexy? No? Good. It's not easy to enjoy meat and to continue living the just, thoughtful, and intelligent life that you really want. Only switching to a vegetarian diet, without cruelty, will allow you to keep your pet without being two-faced, and at the same time preserve your health, the environment, and animals themselves.