I used to eat meat (I don’t anymore but the reasons are irrelevant), and have eaten dog (once) and a bunch of other “atypical for the US” animals (usually just

I used to eat meat (I don’t anymore but the reasons are irrelevant), and have eaten dog (once) and a bunch of other “atypical for the US” animals (usually just once or twice). But even then, when I was thinking that most of the cultural limits around eating particular animals were arbitrary, I still worried that I wasn’t just eating some dog, maybe I was eating someone’s dog. In practice, the probability was extremely low (and it was still possible even for cows, though even less likely) but the seeming category overlap in the case of dogs added psychological friction.