Wednesday, January 13, 2010

“First, kill a medium-sized dog, then burn off the fur over a hot fire.”

Peter Singer draws our attention to this, the first step in a "tongue-in-cheek" recipe in Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals.

Singer explains (summarizing Foer):
Yes, dogs are intelligent, feeling beings, but so are pigs, cows and chickens. Properly cooked, dog meat is as healthy and nutritious as any other meat. It is also said to be delicious. In fact, since many people now advocate eating locally produced food and stray dogs are killed in their thousands in most big cities every year, dogs are the ideal local meat.
You can find the full recipe near the end of this editorial by Foer, which also expands on the case for eating dogs.

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