Obviously, the image is both cold in the back and heart a sickness. Such a pretty dog attacked with an electric knife. And I spare you the litter of kittens in civet or the Hamsterburger. Each is accompanied by a detailed recipe. For the dachshund roast, for example, it is well specified that it must have been fed beforehand with garlic-raised pate or that the head and tail will be reserved for the final decoration.
Of course, this collection - You loved them, eat them - is not serious. Or rather if. The authors, Pascal Rémy and Jean Lecointre, intend to provoke a reflection on "animal suffering for the sole purpose of our gastronomic pleasures" - and in the idea of reducing our expenses, we might add. By staging the companions of our daily life on plates, they hope to challenge on what man is willing to endure - or not - the animal. How do you justify battery-powered chickens on one side and beef tenderloins surrounded by design and useless toys on the other? How far will the big gap go? The question certainly deserves to be asked and so much the better if it is sassy and funny.
For Christmas, I believe I will offer a capon before castration to my children and stuff a Dalmatian; it will look pretty with the black and white balls of the tree.
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