Would You Dine With Persons Eating Dog or Cat?
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Robert Cohen, NotMilk.com
July 2015

I have the same disgust for people who eat dogs and cats as I do for those eating chicken and cow and lobster. There really is no difference to me. I can never again allow myself to partake in such a disgusting feast.

I have many Korean colleagues. Some eat dogs and cats, a practice that disgusts most American pet owners who refuse to sit at the same table with humans gnawing on the thigh bones of baked poodles and kittens. I do not blame such anti-social snobs who exhibit bizarre and rude behavior by expressing their ethical concerns during dinner.

After all, I am much worse. People do not invite me out to inner for fear of my intolerable guilt-giving comments.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Tomorrow evening [July 4] many of you will be watching fireworks and listening to patriotic music which promotes pride in marines waging warfare from the halls of a Mexican municipality to the shores of a Muslim city in Libya in order to preserve our way of life in Oshkosh, Nebraska which includes a traditional July 4th barbecue. I will be in Switzerland tomorrow night, alone in my Geneva hotel room as the other members of my party accept a dinner invitation from our host to dine in the finest restaurant in the world named after (arguably the greatest chef in the world), Philippe Rochat. [I will be appearing before CODEX to present new anti-GMO/anti-Monsanto information.]

The dinner reservation was made many months ago as this Michelin four-star restaurant requires that you are either the son of God or a doctor to gain entry. Diners will be enjoying a variety of wild creatures taken from the Mediterranean to the hand-raised organic pigs of the municipality of Liechenstein, to the confined veal calves raised one-at-a-time in tiny homes at the foothills of the Swiss Alps.

Sound delicious?

Not to me. I no longer sit at the same table as diners who eat animals.

I have the same disgust for people who eat dogs and cats as I do for those eating chicken and cow and lobster. There really is no difference to me. I can never again allow myself to partake in such a disgusting feast.

To even be there is to give my consent for the barbaric practice of torturing and ending the life of a sentient creature just to please a selfishly ignorant palate.

I suggest to those eating animals that humans were meant to eat humans and not lower life forms, and that infant flesh is the tastiest of all meats and they hardly feel pain when butchered and are easily cleaned.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London , that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
- Jonathan Swift 

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