It May Be ‘Helpful’ to Start Eating Dog Meat, Argues CNN Columnist

In a Wednesday op-ed, CNN.com columnist John D. Sutter laid out the case for Americans to consider embracing a diet that includes dog meat.

“It actually could be seen as helpful,” Sutter wrote.

More from the op-ed:

“[U]nlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten,” Jonathan Safran Foer, a vegetarian and novelist, writes in the book “Eating Animals.” Euthanizing pets, he says, “amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year. The simple disposal of these euthanized dogs is an enormous ecological and economic problem. It would be demented to yank pets from homes. But eating those strays, those runaways, those not-quite-cute-enough-to-take and not-quite-well-behaved-enough-to-keep dogs would be killing a flock of birds with one stone and eating it, too.”

But wait: Dogs are companions, right? Pigs (mostly) are not.

True, in America.

In parts of Vietnam, not so much.

In India, remember, cows are sacred.

Sutter concludes his column saying he himself would actually have a hard time eating dog. “Exactly why? That’s a harder question,” he finishes, ominously. “And it’s the one all of us should further examine.”

Interestingly, Sutter’s Twitter bio claims he’s “rooting for the world’s underdogs.”

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