No meat is sacrosanct. It's all meat. What's really the difference between a horse and a cow? One is food just because and one isn't because of our relationship to the animal. It actually makes a lot of sense to eat dog. Dogs are economical to feed and of limited utility to certain cultures. Cat more so. Cats are useless. If this happened in India with cows there'd be riots in the streets but we basically torture cows and few people seem to care. I'm not going to eat my dog or start looking at the haunches of cats down at the pound to assess tenderness, but the death of one animal or another doesn't bother me too much. I watched Earthlings and was only disturbed once or twice. I'm committed to my vices in spite of being fully aware of the risks and reality of their horrors.