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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
Personally I'd have no problem eating a pet if the situation presented itself, however due to my own attachments to the creature (or respect to another family) its simply easier to look elsewhere for meat.
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The only time I've heard of someone in Western society eating an animal that was clearly a pet and not food was my own grandfather--he and his family ate the neighbor's cat during the
Dutch famine of 1944. It was definitely a survival situation; in the cities, people were starving to death and my grandfather spent the majority of his days out in the country, trying to find food.
I seriously believe it would have to come down to that kind of survival situation before anyone would seriously consider eating a pet.