Eating with your animal

The only way I would share my food with my pet is if I handed the food to the dog. I would never let the dog lick the plate then continue eating off it, that's just disgusting and could make you ill. I think in general it's just bad training for the dog to feed it, even if you are hand feeding it from your plate. It could be training the dog that human food is there and so it may then leave it's meals. I used to have a dog that became really spoilt because of my family feeding it scraps from the table.