I wonder how this story plays among Arabs and other Muslims, for whom dogs are unclean.

I live in the good ole USA and I wish I had the freedom and culinary rights to chow on a juicy slab of dog steak. Here in the good ole USA hundreds of thousands of dogs are abandoned every year by pet loving Americans who decide that they don't want to care for their lovely pets any more. Would it be great if we could solve the world's hunger problems with these pets that Americans could donate instead of just dump out into the streets?

I don't understand this, and I never have. On what moral or philosophical grounds is eating dogs wrong, but (for example) eating pigs or cows OK?
Pigs are as intelligent as dogs, and calfs are as cute.
If the reasons for this ban have been thought through at all (beyond "playing to the media") then I can't see the logic myself.

Morality on eating is merely a measure of the distance from starvation (time and perceived sustenance accessibility). If a society ran out of grains, starches, fruits and vegetables, livestock, undomesticated and domesticated animals then the standard right/wrong compass would suddenly allow such unfathomable consumption behaviors like cannibalism, or eating insects. Don’t believe me or don’t think you would or could? Do some basic history research and see for yourself. We need protein, and we have it in many varieties today so killing animals for theirs will eventually appear barbaric and uncivilized unless we can’t maintain our food supplies.
Los Angeles - USA