What your detractors (and downvoters) seem to miss is that dogs occupy a unique position of <i>partnership</i> alongside humans - and have done, as you say, since pre-history. That&#x27;s most certainly <i>not</i> the same thing as &#x27;livestock&#x27;.<p>Treating a companion-in-survival as food is taboo in every sense of the word. It&#x27;s emotionally tantamount to cannibalism. <i>That&#x27;s</i> why it&#x27;s unacceptable, and rightfully reviled.