XPost: rec.arts.tv.uk.misc, rec.food.cooking   
   From: not.jim.silverton@verizon.net   
      
   On 10/12/2011 8:36 AM, Stephen Newport wrote:   
   > (Sky News) - British TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall claimed that   
   > eating puppy meat is no more morally objectionable than consuming pork.   
   >   
   > The celebrity chef previously shocked viewers by eating placenta pate,   
   > curried fruit bat, giraffe and calf testicles and now claims that he   
   > would not be against a "high-welfare organic puppy farm."   
   >   
   > Fearnley-Whittingstall, the star of Channel 4's "River Cottage," was   
   > asked by British magazine Radio Times whether he would try loin of   
   > Labrador or cat liver.   
   >   
   > "Not unless I was on the point of starvation," he replied. "In principle,   
   > but not in practice, I have no objection to a high-welfare organic puppy   
   > farm."   
   >   
   > He added, "You can't object, unless you also object to the farming of   
   > pigs. It's an artificial construct of our society, a cultural decision,   
   > to make pets out of dogs and meat out of pigs. Both animals could be used   
   > the other way round, although pigs probably do make better meat than dogs   
   > and dogs better pets than pigs, but it's not a foregone conclusion."   
   >   
      
   The Vietnamese Pot-bellied (or miniature) Pig makes quite a good pet but   
   I don't refuse pork. Given the long intertwined evolutionary development   
   of dogs and people, I think dogs deserve to be respected. See the recent   
   PBS documentary.   
      
      
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