Dogs & Bugs

Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.

Personally I think the dogs are a victim of anthropomorphism.

The dogs in question being the 17,000 racing greyhounds per year in NSW that will never see the light of day now that there is no incentive to breed them.

It all started with the industrial revolution.

People left the farms and headed to the cities. Increasingly they became insulated from the processes whereby their meat was killed and chopped up. It was all so yucky.

Let’s call it Carnivore Dissonance.

Step 2 was Bugs Bunny and his ilk. Cartoons led the anthropomorphic attribution of human qualities to animals in particular.

The final nail in the coffin was ever increasing social ethics which gave us the nanny state.

Killing people is bad, for any reason. 

Dogs are people now. 

It’ll be hot dogs next, even though we all know there’s no meat in them.