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nemo44x02/20/20253 repliesview on HN

I don’t know, farmers always had dogs on the farm but they didn’t eat them and continued to eat the chickens. Chicken is really great and succulent. Hard to resist frying one of them up and sucking the meat off the bone. Absolutely no desire to do that with a dog.


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abdullahkhalids02/20/2025

Almost no culture routinely eats meat-eating animals. It is very easy to determine, even in ancient times, that it is incredibly easy to get sick from eating meat-eating animals. This is because predators often catch and eat diseased prey, and end up having a lot of parasites and such.

Not to mention the meat of such animals tastes much worse.

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yndoendo02/20/2025

I say the smartest hunters are the farmers.

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scotty7902/20/2025

Dogs are hard to keep for meat at any scale. We only eat easy animals. Sympathy has very little to do with it.