Given that poor countries need food isnt it right that the west thinks about eating dead pets and roadkill ?

Question

Given that poor countries need food isnt it right that the west thinks about eating dead pets and roadkill ?

Answer 1

Hot dogs will never have the same appeal and as for birds nest soup forget it.

Answer 2

You need therapy

Answer 3

we do, commercially available at many late night curry houses

Answer 4

i think some answerers here have double standards and the only  real reason they wont eat road kill is because it doesnt  come in a polystyrene tray wrapped in cling film. most meat eaters would stop eating meat if they had to prepare it themselves.

Answer 5

A lot of these Countries need food, but I keep wondering why if they are starving, they keep having children whom they cannot feed. Do they never learn, that these are more mouths to feed. Then there is another thing, that when you see the pictures the children are starving as well. It is just awful, but as they never seem to help themselves with this problem , how long can anyone go on with this farce... its the children that suffer and I feel sad for them.

Answer 6

Once again California is ahead of the curve. It was made legal here some years back to eat road kill, basically cause it's a darn shame if someone hits a deer and has to leave a hundred pounds of venison in the ditch because they didn't have a deer hunting tag.

Eating dead pets wouldn't be safe, their diet and medications are too unpredictable.

Answer 7

We're called a developed country for a reason....................by your reasoning, why don't we post the dead pets and road kill to third world countries? Everyone's happy

Answer 8

No. We will leave that kind stuff to you lower level lifeforms. I'll be having a nice thick Porter house steak in a few moments.

Soylent Green was a good film. Planet of the Apes was better. That's probably coming sooner than we think as well.

Answer 9

http://www.mmdnewswire.com/food-poisonin...

Oops! I think we might have done already.

Answer 10

Sorry Purple, but that is truly a disgusting thing to say!!!

Answer 11

What is food anyways? ANYTHING THAT IS EDIBLE.

Answer 12

With the current economic situation, it wont be long before we do.

Edit: its just propaganda that they are poor - all their food is actually organic inc chickens and beef. And third world countries actually supply us with most of our food, sugar, coffee, tea, bananas , rice, etc etc

Answer 13

not me, i couldn't contemplate doing that. Besides the various diseases that animals have particularly wild animals make it not a viable option.

Answer 14

I'd sooner eat grass thank you very much...

Answer 15

If you want to scrape up a dead pigeon from the road and eat that's OK with me. If you really want something tasty I have a  cat that died 6 months ago. It will be no trouble for me to dig it up and post.  Can you e-mail me your address ?

er indoors I used to live in Gunnislake, Cornwall .  Nice county but not many squashed pigeons there.

Answer 16

The pet dogs in America eat more protein than all the poor countries put together.

There's something wrong somewhere !

Answer 17

Why? We got  proper food like pot noodles

Answer 18

not if You're vegetarian!

Yuk

I can't imagine anything worse than eating dead pets & road-kill

Answer 19

Yuk no thanks

although i think our local Chinese take away may already have taken that stance

Answer 20

Ha Ha soylent green good one andrew c

and a good film

Answer 21

No because the poor countries wouldn't be poor if there was no corrupt leaders destroying their countries.

Answer 22

what about dead people??  we could eat them instead of burning or burying them - which is a waste of good protein.

the buffet at the wake would be much more unusual.

cucumber & grandma sandwiches

and finger food would finally mean exactly that

Answer 23

People like you probably agree with the barbaric treatment of

cats & dogs in China.

Answer 24

It sounds as if you have been eating to much dung between your boyfriends legs.

Answer 25

Living in rural Cornwall, we quite often kill pheasants on the road (well they are the thickest birds on the planet) I NEVER miss an opportunity of a free meal, and they go straight in the boot of the car, even though we are supposed to offer them to the crown first (so I've been told) As an ex Townie, I've become quite an expert in the art of Pheasant plucking, and am quite a pleasant pheasant plucker!!

I don't think I'll be eating my beloved dog when he dies though, even I draw the line somewhere!!

Edit.... Michael, you crack me up ha ha!!!

Answer 26

Hey, another ologiest tellin me

I have Sarkosi coming on Monday,

suppose we could give him a few rat

crispies  .. your idea is good only

needs refinement .. like say a few

menu  .. Give up the day job!

Answer 27

a    STAR   for   originality...

ZILTCH   for   content... YUK!

(just in case you aren't English or from the UK,   'ZILTCH' means zero)

I read that in WW2 starving people did just that...  leather, even excrement !!

Answer 28

I don't understand your logic, how can that make a difference to people in poor countries??/

Answer 29

Ei prefer caviar old boy, but if you send me your address i will be sure to send you (and anyone else that thinks alike) my dead corgis and hamsters.........bye

Answer 30

Never mind that great film 'Soylent Green' ("It's people!"), to answer your question, there has to be a formula and a proper enquiry.

By 'roadkill', I hope that you mean animals and not human victims. That notion would cause untold further distress to people who have lost loved ones. Please leave this aside.

Other contributors mention pheasants, sheep, foxes, etc., accidentally knocked down after several attempts. To those we should add grouse 'fallout' from shootings.

Eating dead pets is fraught with all sorts of dangers from disease. You must have seen what the average dog does when it is bored. I have a pet turtle and when it dies it will make two good ash-trays but no soup! I would not shell out for such a thing. As they live to over a hundred, it might have the last laugh - or gasp.

A symbolic gesture such as that you suggest would not help poor countries. Even a ratio of twenty-four blackbirds, sixteen hedgehogs, a brace of pheasants and an 'odd' fox, would only make a few of pies. Where would one find a partridge, I wonder, as I am told that it would go well with pears - and Jeremy Clarkson would have to work overtime, I feel, just to supply the population of Zimbabwe for a day!

I am concerned, also, that unemployed people would be used, at a scrape, for providing the basic ingredients, as a community service.

What about unscrupulous people who might deliberately run over their unwanted 'Christmas puppies' in their 4 x 4's, just to fulfil Government quotas? Clearly, you have not thought this through as a policy.

O.K., so I am going to throw out the pheasant which committed suicide under my car wheels on the A496.

Now here's an odd thing. If I eat 'roadkills', you might applaud me. If I throw them into a wheelie bin, I might be prosecuted for promoting disease. If I eat the remains I might die. If I throw the remains away, I might be fined. Uhmm.

You have made me think again. Thank you.

Answer 31

Poor countries are poor because families have more children than they can feed. We give them aid and they have more children. The problem is based on false economics and poor lifestyle choices. Ultimately we can not help them and it can be OK to accept the appalling death rate that is resultant. It is very hard to accept because there is enough food in the world to feed them all but it's in the wrong place.

Would you like our economies to be devoted to feeding the offspring of these unenlightened cultures?