Re: Would you eat your pet?
My cousins in Pakistan had a cooker who used to chase visitors like a dog. When she told us, we didn't believe her. My brother teased the cooker and then he really did chase my brother around like a dog would chase someone. Anyway, that cooker was like a pet, they also had chickens, raised like a pet. Living on the roof, sometimes coming down in some rooms. But they were raised more like pets than stock. Nevertheless, when meat was needed for food, they were slaughtered and nobody really thought about it.
But when you think about it, plants are raised by people too, and vegetables, some people love their vegetables and plants dearly, they even say veggies and plants feel pain. Yet less people have a problem with eating veggies than eating animals.
Personally, I don't have a problem eating veggies or animals. I never was a vegetarian and never could properly take care of any kind of plant or vegetable.