: ...Is dog meat simply dog meat, or do different breeds fetch different prices at the market, taste better, etc?: I've always wondered about that, but would not like the displeasure of learning for myself. Cultural brainwashing, you know?
Well, dogs are more of a traditional food now. Like, how often does an American get to have pumpkin pies and roast turkey? Most life styles have been westernized, and many of the social codes follow the western model of "modernization", so naturally, dogs are not like rice - your everyday meal. Even in the agrarian parts of the country, people do not eat dogs that much. It's just one of those special, traditonal foods now.
Naturally, many people have dogs as pets. This means we don't go out eating poodles or beagles or something. Mostly, the dogs used for meat are the kind you would call "mutts" or "mongrels". Big/middle-sized dogs with something to eat. And these dogs are bred in ranches, specialized in breeding dogs for meat, much like a western ranch would breed cows.
So we really don't have any "breed" of dogs we eat, since most of them are just "dogs", not chihuahuas or St.Bernards or somethin'.
None.
