1) Lots of people eat dog that is bred to be food: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dog_meat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dog_meat</a><p>2) Based on the article, the horse butcher claims that all their meat was from working horses, but that they were butchered before the &quot;prime&quot; of their life (before 9 years) or after 14 years because the meat is more tender then. These working horses are fed a good diet, so the meat is supposedly good tasting compared to farmed animals who are fed specific food to get them fat &amp; large faster.<p>The contradictory way in which we see one living creature&#x27;s value over another is the reason I became a vegetarian. We bred dogs to be (insert reason that&#x27;s not food) we also bred cows to be (insert reason that is food), We are the factor here, not the animals. Just because we bred animals to be a specific way doesn&#x27;t itself justify the industrial slaughter of one versus another.<p>With that said, my choice was: embrace eating dog, or stop eating meat. I chose the latter, but I fully support anyone who chooses the former, but hope they don&#x27;t do so under the premise that one animal we control is somehow more appropriate to kill and eat than another.