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    Eating Pets: Research Proposal

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    10 pages in length. Nothing can be considered a definite wrong when it exists within the confines of a cultural or religious reality. Despite the fact that other cultures or religions do not condone the particular practice - sometimes even condemning it to barbaric behavior as in the case of cannibalism - this incongruity in lifestyle does not automatically make it wrong. Distasteful, loathsome or regrettable perhaps but not inherently wrong by the standards under which it exists. Such is the case with eating pets - typically defined as dogs and cats - and the uproar it creates in countries like the United States where such activity is considered abominable; for others like the Pilipino, consuming dog is as commonplace as it is for Americans to eat livestock. India, with its universal reverence toward cows, is repulsed by the thought of devouring such a sacred animal. In short, the reason it is acceptable to eat animals like cows and sheep in some countries yet consisted wrong to eat dogs or cats in others is because the same animal is not given the same value in all cultures or religions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

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    snare or ended up on the point of the spear was most enthusiastically consumed by early humans who never knew when or where their next meal would be. Today  there is a graduated list of which animals hold greater value than others with regard to consumption; depending upon a persons cultural and/or religious upbringing, certain species like dogs and  cats are entirely off limits for eating while others such as livestock are not given a second thought before they are slaughtered and ingested. This research proposal will discuss  the reasons for such a global dichotomy, utilize the mixed method research approach to study the animal eating habits of specific populations and anticipate finding a cultural and/or religious undercurrent  for the permissible consumption of some animals over others. II. PROBLEM Nothing can be considered a definite wrong when it exists within  the confines of a cultural or religious reality. Despite the fact that other cultures or religions do not condone the particular practice - sometimes even condemning it to barbaric  behavior as in the case of cannibalism - this incongruity in lifestyle does not automatically make it wrong. Distasteful, loathsome or regrettable perhaps but not inherently wrong by the  standards under which it exists. Such is the case with eating pets - typically defined as dogs and cats - and the uproar it creates in countries like the  United States where such activity is considered abominable (Huss, 2002); for others like the Pilipino and Korean, consuming dog is as commonplace as it is for Americans to eat livestock.  India, with its universal reverence toward cows, is repulsed by the thought of devouring such a sacred animal (Huss, 2002). Tudge (1997) expounds upon this noticeably diverse perspective 

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