Eating pets after they've died

I would never even think about eating my pet. (Congratulations on the topic Mantis, it's one of the more interesting discussions I have read.) I consider my pets to be family, and I could never eat family. As someone said before me, if someone ate their human family members, it would be less strange if they wanted to eat the animal members as well. It wouldn't matter what animal species I had as a pet either, there is no such thing as a "food" animal in my opinion.