Dog and Cat Meat now Banned

That is mostly relevant when you are talking about eating fish, as there are more steps in the food chain in the ocean. Although - come to think of it - a large fraction of the ocean catch today is ground up into fish meal and used as animal feed putting cows and pigs further up the chain than most land carnivores… Yikes

this whole stray puppy ordeal has left me feeling quite sick. i know education to the responsibility’s of owning a dog, or even basics such as a dog being black isn’t a reason to be scared of it needs a big improvement in taiwan but how about those pet shops with the dogs in the windows? the stray dog problem is so huge here that you would think something is being done to stop this way of selling animals? is there?

Well, if you go that far back up the family tree, we’re pretty much equally related to all placental mammals.

We’re about as closely related to pigs as we are to horses, bears, and cats (but not rodents, elephants, and whales). It is mostly coincidental that pigs have some similar physiological characteristics that make them good substitutes for humans in surgery and forensic training, and in clinical research and spare organ production.

We do share some interesting connections, genetically, but they are definitely not our closest relatives. See here.

But yes, they taste good, just like human flesh does, if that’s your thing.

not many cannibals left, these days.

Touche, you have a point there.