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Dear Vegetarians/Vegans,
          I hate cruelty directed at animals. I have a dog of my own and I love him more than a lot of things. I was feeling extremely uncomfortable reading "Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace. I was feeling horrible until I got to the sentence that said, "There's a part of the brain in people and animals that lets us feel pain, and lobsters' don't have that." I felt relief but that moment lasted for about a second because then I read that, "it's incorrect in about nine different ways." The fact is, animals feel pain. I get it, the chicken strips that we are eating, a poor little chicken pecking away at the ground had to die for it. I know you just can't believe that us "civilized" humans could do something so "savage" to animals that never did anything to us. But rest assured that I am against animal cruelty... yet I still eat meat. I eat meat along with the 88% of Americans. I know it's wrong to inflict pain on an animal for the sole purpose to enjoy it's meat but I can't help it! This is how I was raised! And how my parents were raised and how their parents were raised and so forth. The cavemen started it and now it's just become a part of life. It came natural to them! So please don't try to change our minds with your articles because no matter how bad we feel about eating meat, we are still going to do it. 
                                                                                                           Sincerely,
                                                                                                                          Carnivores

P.S. I hope you're still coming to dinner tonight!

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  1. UnknownFebruary 25, 2018 at 2:33 PM

    Well, I would like to point out that it's possible to go against what you were raised on when you find out that something is wrong. Food makes up a huge part of our culture and we all need to have a say in what goes into our bodies.

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  2. Kevin HuangFebruary 25, 2018 at 5:22 PM

    I love eating meat, and I could relate to this really well! I hope this question doesn't make you too uncomfortable, but since you can understand the rationale used by Western meat-eaters to justify continuing to eat meat, can you also understand the rationale used by Chinese dog-eaters to justify continuing to eat dog? After all, dog meat is part of the upbringing of many Chinese people too in regions of China where it is commonly eaten. Since you own a dog as a pet but also eat other animals as meat, I'm actually quite curious to learn how you see this controversy. I really liked your post, and I hope you don't take offense to my question.

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    1. Tracy CabejFebruary 25, 2018 at 6:09 PM

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    2. Tracy CabejFebruary 25, 2018 at 6:14 PM

      Thank you for this question Kevin! I respect any and all cultures. What I wrote is just my opinion and outlook on the situation. I can see the rationale used by Chinese dog-eaters because it would be contradictory to my beliefs if I didn't. In some parts of China, eating dogs is part of their culture so they were raised to think of it as something normal. Although my first reaction is to call it wrong- because in the U.S. we've chosen to domesticate these animals -I have to take a step back and look at it in the angle I took in my writing. It would be unfair of me to say that eating dog is wrong when eating other animals is right.

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    3. Kevin HuangFebruary 25, 2018 at 7:32 PM

      Thank you for responding, Tracy! Your argument is very well-supported, and I agree with you.

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