I don't know if you meant "snacking" but I got a chuckle imagining me slithering around with a gigantic belly filled with bacon cheeseburgers.

I ain't a hypocrite. I'm a vegetarian because I hate animals.

LOL you fully offended 10 people at the time of this comment. People get as snowflakey around meat as they do around guns.

I guess but it's human nature to be biased toward people and animals you have experience with. The idea of killing a dog for any non-mercy reason is repellent to me and there's no issue with that. I would prefer not to eat animals at all but I tried and it's quite difficult for me to avoid entirely so now I'm probably 80% vegetarian. If that's HyPoCrIsY, okay.

In terms of "pigs have comparable intelligence and awareness to dogs, and thus if consuming a dog is wrong because they're intelligent then so is consuming a pig," or "a life is a life no matter the species," yes this tracks.

However a single nureongi (a common dog breed in the Korean dog meat industry) only weighs 40-55lbs whereas a single pig will usually weigh 250-325lbs at slaughter. After the butchering process, the amount of edible meat is reduced for both, but proportionally speaking much more is lost per-animal from the dog.

"Amount of suffering/number of lives per pound of meat" feels like a crass discussion, however given that a majority (and in many countries, a vast majority) of people consume an omnivorous diet (and are highly resistant to switching to strict vegetarianism/veganism), it's perhaps an unavoidable discussion.

It totally is. We seemingly just hate cows, pigs and chicken, but love cats'n'dogs.

And for simple-minded people it's always easy and morally fulfilling to care for other people's "injustices". Like being contra whale-hunting while not knowing where whales even live 😁

And for the remaining 90% of people there isn't, because that's how subjective cultural values work.