• whenigrowup356@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We ban things we want less of. More eating dogs means a bigger market for all dog meat, which means a bigger market for theft. I want less of that.

    People don’t steal things that no one wants to buy.

    I’m talking about the side effects of fostering a culture where eating a non-livestock animal is ok. My argument is that this kind of culture is pointlessly cruel to an animal that we’ve explicitly bred to be a companion.

    One element of discouraging a culture is government action, a ban (coercion). I argue this is a necessary step in ending a cruel practice.

    The other is cultural compliance (people behaving in a certain way regardless of the presence of law enforcement officials). I argue this is a necessary step as well, by way of education and improving access to alternatives.