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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by XorNot on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#29885953)
Dogs are carnivores. It is incredibly inefficient to raise dogs for meat, because you have to feed them meat to do so.

This pretty obviously isn't what people are principally reacting too, but it is massively understated when people get into "why do we eat A and not B?"

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by Gigachad on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:21PM (#29887038)
This doesn't seem to explain the reaction to even the smallest amount. I don't believe for a second that even 1% of the anger is because the consumer has wasted resources on their food. Or people would be furious about beef when chicken is massively more efficient.
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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by jpamata on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:38PM (#29887617)
Perhaps it plays a part on conditioning folks through generations on what is viewed as livestock. Dogs for a long time are not, except perhaps in China, which has only started looking into reclassifying dogs from "livestock" to "pets"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

>even 1% of the anger is because the consumer has wasted resources on their food

Mao Zedong used that reasoning during China's cultural revolution for banning dog ownership

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by screamingninja on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:43PM (#29887654)
> Dogs are carnivores.

Omnivores, not carnivores.

Ref: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Canis_lupus_familiaris/

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