I'm a vegetarian but I don't agree with people at all who think it's fine to eat chicken, pig but not cat/dog/rabbit. Your pets may be loyal, you may have a relationship with them but that doesn't make common 'meat' animals stupid and incapable of suffering. My dad has chickens and they're brilliant pets, so friendly, I'd have a chicken over a cat or dog anyway but people just see chickens as meat animals. And this man may be overusing the term pet, he owns the animals but I doubt he has a strong bond with them all. I think raising your own animals to eat is incredibly responsible (although not in his case if they're in bad conditions, but they're probably kept better than a lot of meat animals) and if I liked the taste of meat I'd probably do it myself, a lot of people have no idea where there meat comes from, and for all they know they could be supporting battery farming and other cruel practices.