Interesting discussion however remember this, if you live in America you may have the American viewpoint. If you live somewhere else then that's your viewpoint. For example; in Korea, until recently, dogs haven't been pets. Therefore, by the "companion" standard, it's OK to eat them. In fact, the "companion" standard is exactly what South Korean newspapers and government officials are using to justify an emerging system of dog Nazism. In the city, Koreans raise "pet dogs." In the country, they raise "meat dogs," also known as "junk dogs" and "lower-grade" dogs. But you don't become a "lower-grade" dog by flunking an IQ test. You're just born in the wrong place. Then you're slaughtered and fed to a man who thinks he's humane because he pampers a Golden Retriever that has half your brains. And Bardot, who says that cows can be butchered because they're "grown to be eaten," can't fault this arrangement. But that only a brief picture. Read the rest and you will see that others folks look at things quite differently. Not only that history shows that dogs have not always been regarded as mans best friend. In fact they have been regarded as the name implies. Dogs.

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