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What's nonsensical and borderline racist? What are you agreeing with?
it's nonsensical and borderline racist to claim that eating dogs is inhumane but eating cows and pigs is fine.
i understand you have an emotional attachment to dogs that you don't have to the others because people don't keep cows and pigs in their homes. if they did, you would realize that they are intelligent emotional creatures too. that's the nonsensical part.
the fact that you have no issue with eating cows and pigs but eating dogs is "horrible and inhumane" shows a lack of respect for a culture you don't understand. you're a very small step away from calling it "backwards and barbaric" which would be where I would call it blatantly racist.
i understand the emotions involved, I like dogs too. i also like cows and chickens and pigs and I think eating any of them is wrong. that being said I'm only really at a "less meat" diet rn I wouldn't even call myself a flexitarian 🤷
What's nonsense is moral cultural relativism. I don't have to accept the things that other people do just because they claim it's a part of their culture.
Also, I don't think that eating dog meat is a large part of Chinese culture, nor do I think it's a thing that all Chinese people do or approve of.
If this was happening in my country and city I would be just as against it, because I do view dogs as pets and companions moreso than cows and pigs (animals which also deserve to be treated humanely).