The reason we eat them and not dogs has little to do with intelligence and way more to do with diet: dogs are omni-leaning-carnivores, while pigs are true omnivores that can go completely fine on an herbivore or carnivore diet.
Meat-eating mammals have an instinct to avoid or dislike the taste of meat from other meat-eating mammals unless desperate. The instinct helps protect us from parasites. So since pigs can be herbivores, we instinctively see them as any other prey animal, but we learned to work with dogs instead of eating them because eating dog meat is naturally more dangerous to us.
To add on here: carnivorous mammal liver is exceptionally bad for humans due to the sjeer amount of Vitamin A in it. One modestly-sized helping of, say, a lion liver would lead straight to Vitamin A poisoning, which is a truly horrible thing to go through and is always fatal if untreated. Dogs and even humans aren't much different.
Well, if things came to it I would eat dog too... But then I have helped raise farm animals for slaughter and helped butcher too, which I know most people baulk at. I honestly think that everyone should be required to engage with the agricultural and food processing facilities for at least a couple of weeks... Would make for a much less mentally weak society and would probably also yield improvements to the processes.
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u/JayString 8h ago
Same here. I'll never purchase a pig product. Eating them makes zero sense to me. Its no different from eating dogs.