A quick search of certain legal sources has not yielded any specific laws against consuming dogs or 'companion animals'.

The best I can find currently in the Ohio Revised Code staes:

(B) No person shall knowingly torture, torment, needlessly mutilate or maim, cruelly beat, poison, needlessly kill, or commit an act of cruelty against a companion animal.


The key word would be 'needlessly'. If one were starving in the woods with no hope of immediate rescue is different than just wanting to see what Fido tastes like.

Every other reference refers to companion animal consumption merely as a social taboo in the US, although there are laws about selling them as food products.

If I find something more specific, I'll post it.

That sounds a lot like the Employee Motivation Program at my workplace.

Yep, I have a grim feeling I'm for the cooking pot.

Lo

Appears to be legal in Oz. I've been reading about an author who had a cookbook out with at least one recipe for feral cats.

No U.S. laws yet. Each state may have their own laws or lack thereof...

What's up with the Black Dress?

Seems like rather untraditonal garb (wearing a black dress) while making your VP announcement. Maybe its an Alaskan thing. Or perhaps I'm nit-picking.

You're nit-picking.

Why NOT a black dress? It's not like she's got a tradition she's breaking or anything.



[This message has been edited by Laura Heidy-Halberstein (edited September 01, 2008).]

Well, since nit-picking is a long established tradition around here, I'd like to nit-pick just a bit more. I was very curious about the odd names of Sarah Palin's children:
Track, Willow, Piper, Trig and Bristol - so I began to search and found that others were also curious and discussing the implications. Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish - touches on this at

The Atlantic.Com

Thanks to McCain for bringing us such a mysterious selection to study. And gosh it was good of him to cancel the first day of the Republican Convention due to his concern for those in the path of the hurricane. I'm sure they all feel a little safer because of it.

Oh, here's more about the family names


I'm attempting to answer your original question, "Who the heck is Sarah Palin".



[This message has been edited by Anne Bryant-Hamon (edited September 01, 2008).]

You're right, Anne, my original question was "Who the heck is Sarah Palin" not "Who the heck are Sarah Palin's children and why do they have funny names?" or "Did you hear that people are saying Trig is her grandson not her son?" And before anyone gets down and dirty about it here, I'll say right now that I'm already damn sick and tired of hearing about her daughter's unfortunately timed pregnancy even tho it laid to rest the grandchild theory of relativity.

My children are not me - I am not my children. What my children do, once they reach a certain age, is beyond my control. What I can control is my own reaction to whatever it is they have done.

So far it appears to me, and I am no fan of Sarah Palin, that she's reacting much to her daughter's situation as I would hope I would - with faith and love and support. And she's continuing to hold her head high and to allow her daughter to do the same.

I'm really not all that concerned with her family experiences. What I am concerned with is her political experiences. Her reaction or her solution to her daughter's pregnancy has absolutally nothing to do with my life nor will it affect my life. Her reactions and her solutions to a terrorist threat or a tax decision or drilling oil fields in the middle of previously protected land - now that just might matter to me - and matter muchly.

Actually, the more people discuss her personal life, the less chance we have of ever getting to the real stuff - the stuff that actually matters, the stuff that makes a difference.

If all the media reports on is her pregnancy or her daughter's pregnancy or why she named her children what she did, that means they are not reporting on her political stances or her stances on anything even remotely like vice-presidential concerns.

If everyone continues to obsess on one particular teenaged pregnancy then no one is obsessing on foreign policy or Troopergate or anything else which really MIGHT make a difference to the American people.

Whether her daughter gets married or not, what she named her children, all that rates right up, there with what color dress she wore the day she made her VP announcement - which is to say, not at all.

Her personal agendas are not important, her political agendas are. All this talk of teenaged pregnancy and first names are distracting. I'm starting to wonder if that's not the whole fiendish idea behind McCain's choice. If so, we're just playing right into his hands, aren't we?

My first wish in this whole thing is that the media takes John McCain's request seriously and quits discussing family matters and starts discussing world matters.

My second wish is that John McCain takes his own advice and puts a stop to his own campaign's frequent snide remarks about Obama's wife, father, step-father, and half-siblings.

Lo




[This message has been edited by Laura Heidy-Halberstein (edited September 01, 2008).]

There's nothing better than a parboiled leg of Labrador, and I'm salivating over Feeney's demise for a good potfull. I am part Sioux, I should add.

A dog like that, you don't eat him all at one time.

Sam's Haiku

A pot of Souix stew
isn't very good for you.
It makes you 'arf.