BBQ’d dog is fine by me
by Jake Quinn
Last night thousands of ignorant kiwis watching TVNZ news chuckled to themselves about “those silly Tongans eating their dog”. The hypocrisy of this ethnocentric arrogance really irks me. It is of course now, all over the news.
In New Zealand we intensively and perhaps cruelly farm pigs, these pigs end up getting lopped up and turned into delicious bacon and other such porky treats. Farm kids across the nation raise little lambs and cows as pets with their eventual destination being the dinner table.
We keep and race horses and then lop them up to feed our other pets.
In the pacific and in many other parts of the world it is utterly standard practice for dogs to be eaten after their pet-used-by-date is up. It is no more wrong to eat a dog than it is to eat a pig, cow, sheep or horse and the SPCA should know better.
They want a law change. They want it it to be illegal for kiwis to eat dogs.
This ignorant cultural tunnel vision shouldn’t be tolerated.
The SPCA should get back to ensuring people are not cruel to animals while they are alive.
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Excellent post. I agree wholeheartedly.
I also just have to say. I love your blog Jake. *adds it to her Reader*. Good stuff!
Excellent 🙂
When does a pet reach it’s “pet-used-by-date”?
The first report i came across had it that Mr Taufa thought his dog had gotten too skinny.
Whose fault would that be? For sure he certainly wasn’t fattening his dog for dinner, but is there a spca concern about starving a dog? – if that’s what happened of course.
Boganette: when they start looking at you funny. Then you know its time to throw another hound on the barbie.
Lol. Nice.
This guy seemed to be BBQing the dog as an after thought. He killed it because it was unruly and ‘too skinny’.
So I don’t really buy the ‘poor misunderstood Tongan man’ argument. Or the ‘oh they’re just soo culturally insensitive and ignorant’ argument.
Frankly I’m astonished that anyone is supporting a man killing a dog because it was annoying him and/or didn’t look right.
And I would say domesticated pets are very different to farm animals. But that might be based on the fact that I’ve never seen someone let a sheep or cow inside. Never seen a sheep or cow walk on a lead, chase a stick. sit on someone’s lap while they watch TV. In fact you’re about the only person I’ve heard even suggest a sheep or a pig is the same as a pet dog.
Have you never owned a dog?
If so did you eat it?
I just wanted to add my 5cents worth on this topic.
New Zealand gave Tonga 20 Million dollars and what does the Royal family do with the money spend it on themselves and leave nothing for the people of Tonga who live in Poverty.
The $2 Tongan ship sinks and kills 100 Tongan people.
Where is the money NZ gave to Tonga use it to pull that boat up, you selfish fat royal pigs.
The obese King is so fat he must of eaten all the dogs in Tonga. The Tongan’s now come to NZ and eat our Kiwi dogs???
What the FU_K?
Stayaway: I am failing to see the link between aid money, a corrupt and arrogant royal, a tragic sinking of a ship, the loss of nearly 100 lives, with the moral issue with eating dog meat. There is always the chance however that your 5 cents worth is satirical – in which case Bravo.
Boganette: I can assure you many country raised kids take their baby lambs and calves to rural shows on leads, and those same animals end up in their bellies. Also you probably haven’t met adorable baby piglets who on farms are sometimes allowed to run around the house when they are very young. Many too end up as crackling. The simple fact is that in many parts of the world these animals are food, i know you might not “like the thought” of it, but frankly, that’s not a good enough reason for them not to eat it. I don’t like the idea of eating spiders, so i don’t eat spiders. I encourage you to continue to not eating your pets.
Lol
*goes back to not eating pets*