Love the pig, eat the dog?

Many vegans claim that it's immoral to eat meat based on the fact that we are biased towards the animals we eat, and that all animals are the same, and it's no different if we eat a pig than if we eat a dog.

While they may be right in some aspects, they seem to have forgotten the rest of the world exists. Here in America, we eat cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chicken, turkeys, geese, bison and other, more exotic meats, while we will not eat horses, dogs, cats, and other animals we deem to be pets. Is this normal? Yes. We eat what we do based on our culture and what worked for us. Pigs grew quickly, and produced a lot of meat, without offering much more. Dogs on the other hand, worked for us, and didn't provide much in the way of meat, not even with larger breeds, so we saw fit to keep dogs alive and pigs on our plate.

In other countries, such as India, animals we see as food aren't thought of as food animals, such as cattle. Jewish people won't eat pigs, and many Asian countries see horses and dogs as delicacies, rather than pets.

Animals people eat end up being eaten because they are worth more that way. A horse who can't work is worth more on someone's plate than sitting in the pasture requiring feed and other expenses, same as a pig who isn't capable of working is worth more as food.

ARAs and vegans may think there is no difference between the pig and the dog, but we here in America see quite differently, and so does the rest of the world. What we eat is based on our geographical location and our culture, not a biased, speciesist love affair with eating the pig, but loving the dog.