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

The main point is about becoming middle class and adopting international middle class/elite values to fit in. I remember there was another attempt to ban old men in Beijing hutongs resting topless in summer. I am sure those thinking the laws have aircon at their homes. So it's not even a rural/urban divide, but a cultural/class divide. The rich define what is good and what is bad, what is moral and what is not. It's moral to hope one car for every human, but it is not to eat dog meat. Now, what's worst for nature?

I might understand eating dog if there wasnt so much cruelty involved. I IS just like eating a cow or pig, but do we abuse the adorable little calf on purpose? To we intentionally scare the pig so it "tastes" better? No... and that is the difference. You cant honestly say that butchering a dog while its still partially concious is humane. It just isnt right