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Cultural Hypocrisy
Sure, eating dogs and cats is upsetting -- especially to those of us who consider these creatures companions. But isn't it a bit hypocritical to point fingers at anyone, considering our own factory farming methods?
We routinely raise all sorts of creatures, some as intelligent as pigs, under condtions that by no stretch of the imagination can be considered humane -- and then we slaughter them in abbatoirs that reek of cruelty.
Before we castigate China for the ways it slaughters dogs and cats, doesn't it behoove us to fully open our eyes to the ways we routinely treat the hundreds of thousands of animals we routinely enjoy for our dinners?