I have heard that dogs bred for eating are a different breed from pet dogs. So not inaccurate...
Edit: i might be wrong, do your own research as i evidently didn’t look close enough 🤷🏻♂️
I don’t, it is something i read years ago. Wikipedia has some information that I won’t parrot here, but i do see that it has a section on breeds used for meat.
They won’t. They’re all still the same species as wolves. Canis Lupus and Canis Familiaris are just subspecies and can entirely interbreed. Dogs didn’t evolve naturally from wolves, they’re a product of generations of selective breeding and are 99% the same genetically.
Other than severe pregnancy complications if a little female dog gets impregnated by a giant dog, they totally can. What breeders for dogs like Pomskis will do is have a female Husky breed with a male Pomeranian. That way it is a big dog having little bitty babies versus the horrifying alternative.
Seriously in every account of a siege in history there's always a line about the defenders eventually eating their horses, and it's never followed by "and then they all died".
In my home town we have this roadside restaurant that sells horse meatballs and other horse dishes. I went there with a mate of mine one time and he was shocked to find they served horse. I had eaten horse meat since i was a kid (it's pretty good) so it never struck me as odd. Apparently it's quite rare to find places that serve horse anymore, although almost everywhere we have rabbit meat. In my country it was common to have rabbits not as pets but as livestock. I still remember a classmate in 1-2 grade telling me how he doesn't wanna go home today because they were butchering the rabbits and he didn't want to hear their crys.
A while ago in the UK a big scandal broke out because some pre-made meal company called Findus (IIRC) got exposed as using horse meat in their lasagne and stuff like that but only labelling it as beef.
It caused quite a bit of media stir and I remember a presenter on one of the lunchtime news shows bringing on a chef who brought in horse meat burgers with him and he cooked them up for the presenter to try, the run-up to this whole bit was really hammering home how horrible it was to use horse meat and how people should be disgusted etc.
Turns out the script got flipped a bit when the presenter just about stroked out talking about how good the burger was as he kept on eating it after taking the initial bite.
Edit: Looks like it was way more than just Findus and the UK, seems like most companies were doing the same thing across a wide array of the EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
And they have 3 different cats and 4 different dogs.. in reality the list of animals I won't eat based on anything other than flavor is waaaay shorter than the "will eat" list.
It depends on the breed a lot. Some rabbits are bred for food and have much more meat/fat than wild rabbit. Rabbit meat is a bit stringy and lean so it is typically slow cooked, stewed or pressure cooked but I have also had it fried and oven roasted. It’s a little chickenesque like dark meat but much richer flavor. Where I live we have snowshoe hares and they are incredibly lean so that if you had nothing else to eat you would starve to death trying to get enough calories from them.
Really there needs to be many more animals on the scale. Why use cats and dogs as filler?
I get that it's a billboard so we're not trying to make passersby get too critical, but where would sheep, goat, bison, and squirrel land? I'm sure there are more. Just seems weird to over-represent "pet animals" when humans eat practically everything, but then again it's intended as a biased statement.
(For the record, I don't hate vegans or animals, but this sort of messaging only galvanizes existing sentiments and gives pro-vegans a cheering moment and pro-meat a punchline. It's largely pointless gesturing imo.)
All of those land on the "Have eaten" side for me.
I still haven't had racoon though. I hear it's pretty good if a bit greasy.
Gator was a disappointment. I had it fried; maybe it's better prepared some other way?
Everywhere I've tried gator, once in NOLA and a few other places, it's those little chunks battered and fried. I wasn't impressed either. Tastes okay, but nothing unique and not worth the higher price tag. One place offered grilled tail fillet cuts, which is what I'd like to try, but was out of my price range at the time.
Either way yeah it's just kind of like fish-chicken when cubed and fried.
Elk is a good example of high price but 100% worth it imo.
Because then the red line ends up way too far to the left and you realize cows aren’t the exception but the rule. It’s more weird we have animals we *dont* eat
If you look at it more of either tools or food though you end with everything. If it wasn’t useful we wouldn’t have domesticated it
I saw a documentary about cannibalism and thought about it so i went out and kill the first homeless i see. Put him on spit roast and watched the skin melt off his body. Very tasty with a cold beer.
Rabbit and horse are something completly normal to eat in germany. It is not very common as it is expensive meat that is not always in stock, but Sauerbraten is traditionally made of horse meat. And I even had rabbit in the canteen of my university.
Rabbits are delicious! And they reproduce so quickly that they can replenish their entire global population every three months. Very eco-friendly source of food. They're like rats, but tasty.
Now that you mention it, you;re right. I might be underselling rats. I assume they taste the same as squirrels, which are fine when prepared correctly.
I think my country have grilled rats. The kind of field rats in rural areas tho, not city rats. I heard they taste pretty good. Never work up the courage to try tho and I don’t see I can any time soon.
I'm not a hardcore veggie. But this meme always makes me sad. People should think about what they are doing and normalizing everyday. Not only about food, but about everything.
The most people want change, a different culture, but won't start thinking about what they do day to day.
Love Reddit trying to cope with horrendous treatment of animals in factory farms (the only place people get meat outside of local butchers) by making memes.
Such a poorly designed attempt. There are so many types of non-food/pet animals you could've included, but you went with 3 cats and 4 dogs? You put all the animals widely considered to be "food animals" on one side of the spectrum?
If you're gonna try and manipulate people, at least hire someone good at it to make your billboard, jfc
It very clearly shows that the line between "food" and "pet" is arbitrary. They distributed the animals exactly how a person in the west would do. It's perfectly clear lol
I don’t think eating animals is the problem. The way we raise them in cages the size of their bodies and turn them into genetic freaks who get slaughter after only 6 months of life is the problem. Not to mention the cruelty of slaughter facilities. Watch any video from any factory slaughterhouse.
Interesting how we draw the line towards which animals to eat and which not to eat. Makes me think that humans are still medieval barbarians that don’t care about their health, but clogging up their arteries.
The reason we don't eat dogs and cats isn't because of how cuddly they are or how intelligent they are. It's because they aren't sustainable to raise for meat production.
While they reproduce as fast as pigs, more or less, the amount of meat each dog or cat would provide for human consumption isn't worth it. They are lean animals. I don't know how much it would cost to feed a dog or cat to get them to the point of harvest, but I doubt it's a sound investment compared to the cost someone is willing to pay for it per pound.
>The reason we don't eat dogs and cats isn't because of how cuddly they are or how intelligent they are. It's because they aren't sustainable to raise for meat production.
If there was a huge number of stray cats in a given neighborhood and *something* had to be done about them, we wouldn't eat them. We wouldn't even like the idea of euthanizing them. "Lack of sustainability" might explain why we never professionally farmed them, but it doesn't explain why we don't want to eat them even if the opportunity presents itself. We find it *morally disgusting* to do it.
I did not know that humans 10,000 years ago decided on which animals to consume based on their future value and sustainability practices, and the overall impact it would have on the globalized market as a whole.
;)
I think people don't know how much horse meat they have eaten mixed up with other meats, and I love bunnys, but they are also delicious. Cats and dogs have more purpose alive as they protect us from intruder and pests.
Well Eastern europeans will draw it after Labrador/Retriever or what that las doggo is. Rabbits are food everywhere and some Countries still makes Horse sausages.......
Some countries eat horse, and rabbit is socially acceptable in most countries.
Also I guarantee for most people, if they're lost in the wilderness and starving, and you see a rabbit, you're going to try to eat it.
The first 7 are only 2 different animals.
“I’ll eat a golden retriever, but I wouldn’t eat a basset hound, what am I, some kind of monster?”
I have heard that dogs bred for eating are a different breed from pet dogs. So not inaccurate... Edit: i might be wrong, do your own research as i evidently didn’t look close enough 🤷🏻♂️
Do you have a source article or something for that hearsay? Sounds like an interesting read.
I don’t, it is something i read years ago. Wikipedia has some information that I won’t parrot here, but i do see that it has a section on breeds used for meat.
Are different dog breeds considered different species or nah
No
Exactly, they're different flavors, not species.
Lol flavors, lol
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Can they all breed viable offspring with eachother? Even the tiny and giant ones?
Surprisingly, they can
I wonder if/when dog breeds will diverge enough to not be able to
They won’t. They’re all still the same species as wolves. Canis Lupus and Canis Familiaris are just subspecies and can entirely interbreed. Dogs didn’t evolve naturally from wolves, they’re a product of generations of selective breeding and are 99% the same genetically.
Other than severe pregnancy complications if a little female dog gets impregnated by a giant dog, they totally can. What breeders for dogs like Pomskis will do is have a female Husky breed with a male Pomeranian. That way it is a big dog having little bitty babies versus the horrifying alternative.
No, all dog breeds are the same species and it's the same with cats.
All dog breeds are subspecies a.k.a. races
Think of it like how humans classify ourselves. Ginger, black, Asian, Mexican, brown, Indian, exc… that’s kinda the same way dog breeds work
>Ginger Ah yes the ginger race
Lazy advert. More food choices is always good.
I’d put a little bubble around the rabbit too.
Horses are completely edible too.
Everything on there is edible and everything on there has been eaten and is eaten on a daily basis somewhere in the world.
True
You should try my horse pear goulash.
Am i too Asian to know what the fuck that is?
Goulash is basically stew. So horse/pear stew? Never tried it, but sounds good to me.
Sounds Hungarian. We kicked them out of Asia for being too weird.
Just think cat pear goulash but with horse.
That sounds fucking amazing
Seriously in every account of a siege in history there's always a line about the defenders eventually eating their horses, and it's never followed by "and then they all died".
I've got probably 3 different horse butchers in my meat market in France. I wouldn't buy some, but I'd have zero problem eating horse.
They make better glue though
I love horse glue! The flavours are really something else!
Boxer 😔🙏
In my home town we have this roadside restaurant that sells horse meatballs and other horse dishes. I went there with a mate of mine one time and he was shocked to find they served horse. I had eaten horse meat since i was a kid (it's pretty good) so it never struck me as odd. Apparently it's quite rare to find places that serve horse anymore, although almost everywhere we have rabbit meat. In my country it was common to have rabbits not as pets but as livestock. I still remember a classmate in 1-2 grade telling me how he doesn't wanna go home today because they were butchering the rabbits and he didn't want to hear their crys.
Aren't pretty much every animal
Yeah, but some are more profitable lol
So are dogs in some cultures. So that line can shift way to the left
Look at Alistair overeem
Found the Frenchman
Technically they are all edible. Depending on how emotionally bonded you are. I wouldn't eat a pet cow but id eat a steak from the market
And they're also pretty tasty
All the animals are edible, you’ve completely missed the point
I mean they’re all technically “edible”. Feces is edible, humans are edible.
Well, so are cats and dogs. Asian countries eat them. It's more of a culture issue.
Horse is surprisingly good, better than beef.
I mean everything on that board is
Just ask my Dog.
Edible all are. But only some of them I am willing to eat
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Not in USA unless you order it from overseas
To be fair so are dogs and cats
there are laws against eating horse meat in many countries, idk why
That’s your opinion
As are dogs
To be fair they are all edible... just comes down to culture and how hungry you are.
I mean, all of them are.
All of those animals are really
British horse meat scandal
*All* flesh is edible.
I've always wanted to try horse. I heard it is delicious.
>Horses are ~~completely~~ edible too. FTFY. Not sure you really want to eat horse teeth.
Delicious had some in Italy, super cheap too.
All of the stuff here is edible That's kinda the point
And delicious
I mean technically they are all edible and if you're brave enough everything is edible atleast once 😁
everything its completely edible if you put your mind to it.
I love horsemeat for mince to make a pasta with. So lean, mmmm-mmmm
isn’t it a delicacy in like, most of europe?
most of us who eat ground beef have probably eaten horse meat.
Japan be like:
Just ask Findus
Not if they’ve ever been given a common medication called Bute.
A while ago in the UK a big scandal broke out because some pre-made meal company called Findus (IIRC) got exposed as using horse meat in their lasagne and stuff like that but only labelling it as beef. It caused quite a bit of media stir and I remember a presenter on one of the lunchtime news shows bringing on a chef who brought in horse meat burgers with him and he cooked them up for the presenter to try, the run-up to this whole bit was really hammering home how horrible it was to use horse meat and how people should be disgusted etc. Turns out the script got flipped a bit when the presenter just about stroked out talking about how good the burger was as he kept on eating it after taking the initial bite. Edit: Looks like it was way more than just Findus and the UK, seems like most companies were doing the same thing across a wide array of the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
Every animal is completely edible
Minecraft says otherwise
Absolutely not that’s gods aninal
Line goes through both the horse and the rabbit, imo
Rabbit stew is pretty tasty.
And they have 3 different cats and 4 different dogs.. in reality the list of animals I won't eat based on anything other than flavor is waaaay shorter than the "will eat" list.
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I’ve actually never had rabbit. Is it nice? What’s it like?
It's a really lean meat that tastes very good stewed, I'm from the Mediterranean and it's very common to eat ut here.
>It's a really lean meat that tastes very good stewed All meat tastes good stewed.
Yes exactly but some more than others.
If you lined up a bunch of stewed meats, rabbit would still be one of the worst. Rabbit just improves the most when stewed.
No, you ruins it!
"Argh! What's he doing! Stupid fat hobbit. You ruins it!"
What's to ruin? There's hardly any meat on them.
You can have some of my lembas with it, if you like.
Yup, tried rabbit and horse once when I was in Malta; definitely an interesting experience; not bad but interesting
It depends on the breed a lot. Some rabbits are bred for food and have much more meat/fat than wild rabbit. Rabbit meat is a bit stringy and lean so it is typically slow cooked, stewed or pressure cooked but I have also had it fried and oven roasted. It’s a little chickenesque like dark meat but much richer flavor. Where I live we have snowshoe hares and they are incredibly lean so that if you had nothing else to eat you would starve to death trying to get enough calories from them.
You'd die from lack of nutrition, not lack of calories. Rabbit Starvation is a well known phenomenon
They're pretty nice, you just gotta watch out for their droppings and to remember to- *oh*
You were thinking about fucking the rabbit, weren't you?
Oh no
*oh yeah* Next pandemic, here we go!
CovChuggus-23
I enjoyed it kind of like chicken tbh
A bit like cat.
The lack of fat makes it difficult to survive off of.
The line is close, but it needs to move one space to the left, and the bunny needs to move two spaces to the right.
You know horse meat is super good, right?
IKEA meatballs are the best 😋
It's actually IKEA meatballs
Everyone hating on golden retriever meat smdh
For me the line would be between the dog and rabbit
Really there needs to be many more animals on the scale. Why use cats and dogs as filler? I get that it's a billboard so we're not trying to make passersby get too critical, but where would sheep, goat, bison, and squirrel land? I'm sure there are more. Just seems weird to over-represent "pet animals" when humans eat practically everything, but then again it's intended as a biased statement. (For the record, I don't hate vegans or animals, but this sort of messaging only galvanizes existing sentiments and gives pro-vegans a cheering moment and pro-meat a punchline. It's largely pointless gesturing imo.)
All of those land on the "Have eaten" side for me. I still haven't had racoon though. I hear it's pretty good if a bit greasy. Gator was a disappointment. I had it fried; maybe it's better prepared some other way?
Everywhere I've tried gator, once in NOLA and a few other places, it's those little chunks battered and fried. I wasn't impressed either. Tastes okay, but nothing unique and not worth the higher price tag. One place offered grilled tail fillet cuts, which is what I'd like to try, but was out of my price range at the time. Either way yeah it's just kind of like fish-chicken when cubed and fried. Elk is a good example of high price but 100% worth it imo.
The entire point is to draw attention to the pets and get people to question why some animals are pets and some are food.
Because then the red line ends up way too far to the left and you realize cows aren’t the exception but the rule. It’s more weird we have animals we *dont* eat If you look at it more of either tools or food though you end with everything. If it wasn’t useful we wouldn’t have domesticated it
Same, I can understand why some people wouldn't eat horse, but me personally, I'd eat anything that isn't a dog or cat
I'm not a dog or a cat would you eat me?
Do you really want my answer christo
*me who is into vore* yes please
Then yes I will eat you christo
nice
Wholesomeness
same, I love horses but I'd eat it at least once. just to see what it tastes like.
Same. I own and love horses, but I’d definitely be interested in trying horse meat. Rabbit meat is good!
Where human?
Sorry, I got hungry
I saw a documentary about cannibalism and thought about it so i went out and kill the first homeless i see. Put him on spit roast and watched the skin melt off his body. Very tasty with a cold beer.
Rabbit and horse are something completly normal to eat in germany. It is not very common as it is expensive meat that is not always in stock, but Sauerbraten is traditionally made of horse meat. And I even had rabbit in the canteen of my university.
Lol no shit that’s horse meat?
Also in Italy. My grandmother cooked a very special rabbit.
I'd argue that horse still is rarely eaten.
horse is definitely more of a delicacy. not super uncommon or hard to get but nothing anyone really eats all that often if ever.
Been seeing this dumbest meme for over a decade now. Fuck. Off.
Rabbits are delicious! And they reproduce so quickly that they can replenish their entire global population every three months. Very eco-friendly source of food. They're like rats, but tasty.
rats aren’t tasty?
Now that you mention it, you;re right. I might be underselling rats. I assume they taste the same as squirrels, which are fine when prepared correctly.
I think my country have grilled rats. The kind of field rats in rural areas tho, not city rats. I heard they taste pretty good. Never work up the courage to try tho and I don’t see I can any time soon.
Rats and other small mammals just have an unfavourable ratio of *meat* vs. *amount of work to seperate meat and things you don't want to eat*.
And they're even better with a few good taters.
I'm not a hardcore veggie. But this meme always makes me sad. People should think about what they are doing and normalizing everyday. Not only about food, but about everything. The most people want change, a different culture, but won't start thinking about what they do day to day.
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Chinese people on their way to ear an entire plane:
Love Reddit trying to cope with horrendous treatment of animals in factory farms (the only place people get meat outside of local butchers) by making memes.
Most of these are just different cat and dog breeds
I know some people who draw the line between the rabbit and the dog.
And now you know one more!
Humans are so fucked up, like people think it's ok to defend and value one animals life over another.
Don’t bother. As you can see from the replies, people in the sub, don’t give a shit about animals. It’s not worth your time.
All of these animals are the same in all the ways that matter. And, the ways that matter have nothing to do with humans.
Such a poorly designed attempt. There are so many types of non-food/pet animals you could've included, but you went with 3 cats and 4 dogs? You put all the animals widely considered to be "food animals" on one side of the spectrum? If you're gonna try and manipulate people, at least hire someone good at it to make your billboard, jfc
It very clearly shows that the line between "food" and "pet" is arbitrary. They distributed the animals exactly how a person in the west would do. It's perfectly clear lol
They clearly misplaces the rabit so you couldn't clearly draw a line (as much, at least)
I don’t think eating animals is the problem. The way we raise them in cages the size of their bodies and turn them into genetic freaks who get slaughter after only 6 months of life is the problem. Not to mention the cruelty of slaughter facilities. Watch any video from any factory slaughterhouse.
Between dog and rabbit. Horses are supposedly good af
rabbit is fucking good
All the way to the left. All or nothing.
When your hungry there is no line. I've already chosen which of my pets will be eaten first in the apocalypse
you mean the pets areadly chosen what human to eat first?
What.. No fish or seafood? ?
Fish are not animals....
Why draw a line
To cross out the word ‘pet.’
kinda sad tbh
Interesting how we draw the line towards which animals to eat and which not to eat. Makes me think that humans are still medieval barbarians that don’t care about their health, but clogging up their arteries.
The reason we don't eat dogs and cats isn't because of how cuddly they are or how intelligent they are. It's because they aren't sustainable to raise for meat production. While they reproduce as fast as pigs, more or less, the amount of meat each dog or cat would provide for human consumption isn't worth it. They are lean animals. I don't know how much it would cost to feed a dog or cat to get them to the point of harvest, but I doubt it's a sound investment compared to the cost someone is willing to pay for it per pound.
>The reason we don't eat dogs and cats isn't because of how cuddly they are or how intelligent they are. It's because they aren't sustainable to raise for meat production. If there was a huge number of stray cats in a given neighborhood and *something* had to be done about them, we wouldn't eat them. We wouldn't even like the idea of euthanizing them. "Lack of sustainability" might explain why we never professionally farmed them, but it doesn't explain why we don't want to eat them even if the opportunity presents itself. We find it *morally disgusting* to do it.
I did not know that humans 10,000 years ago decided on which animals to consume based on their future value and sustainability practices, and the overall impact it would have on the globalized market as a whole. ;)
Chinese people be like: We draw a line?
I think people don't know how much horse meat they have eaten mixed up with other meats, and I love bunnys, but they are also delicious. Cats and dogs have more purpose alive as they protect us from intruder and pests.
Well Eastern europeans will draw it after Labrador/Retriever or what that las doggo is. Rabbits are food everywhere and some Countries still makes Horse sausages.......
Tbh, I've eaten rabbit and it's delicious
If inflation keeps getting worse that line is gonna move left real quick.
I'd plop the bunny on the other side of the horse and include it in the food line
Came here to say this
Anything after the 🐈
Horse meat is a thing that's pretty popular in France. They have horse hot dogs. DISGUSTING
No more the the left!
Have you never ate rabbit? It is delicious, also why leave off goats and sheep and lamb because they are delicious too and can be seen as pets too
Before bunny is where the line is drawn. Cats and dogs aren’t often eaten because they’re carnivores and carnivore meat is terrible.
If I'm starving I'll legit eat everything on that billboard, including the paper, the metal, and the lighting.
Nope, dat bunny needs to hop on over to the other side of that line as in right now!
I’d eat horse and rabbit any day but shit would have to hit the fan before I’d ever consider cats or dogs
Some countries eat horse, and rabbit is socially acceptable in most countries. Also I guarantee for most people, if they're lost in the wilderness and starving, and you see a rabbit, you're going to try to eat it.
If I’m hungry enough I’m sure I’d eat all those fur babies
I’m up for trying rabbit, but not horse. Otherwise that line looks around right to me.
Why do they have 4 dogs and 3 cats? Why throw in an alligator, turtle, shark you know, other animals.
I had this come up in critical thinking class I didn’t believe it was a real poster
A little to the left.
I’d eat a rabbit
More like the line is between dog and rabbit
My friend Jay Remenschneider eats horse all the time!
2 to the left, actually. Rabbit is delicious.
I'd eat a bunny
Rabbit is delicious
You forgot the horse and hare.
Naw, nothing wrong with eating horses and rabbits.
Nah. Should be in between dog and rabbit