Eating dog for Thanksgiving may be considered shocking and taboo by many Americans but is actually a well documented practice. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first commissioned a survey of American’s eating habits as part of the WPA, turkey was often substituted for duck, pig, rabbit, and other household livestock. In amongst the list is dog. It is not surprising that dog gets on the list more often in times of financial crisis, when other types of protein are harder to come by. Although a modest proportion of the American diet overall, dog meat consumption spiked in 2008 and has not dropped considerably since.
