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I-am-me · Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Location: Hermit Kingdom

I finally had my first expierence eating this unique korean cuisine. I have to admit it was very delicious. Taste was between lamb and cow meat. A bit chewy also. I really didnt not catch the smell some people claim is too strong. It's very popular around this time of the year and my co-workers now tell me doctors recommend it to patients after being hospitalized. Probably for the same reasons kimchi is recommended for preventing Bird Flu. I encourage you all to try it. Now if I could only stop barking now and then!!! Very Happy

JohnTeacher · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Location: Ansan-Si, South Korea

Hi,
My fiancee's family owns a number of restaurants...one a dog restaurant. I generally dine there about once a week or so. It's not your run of the mill cheapo sleazy diner....very high class and respectable, as many professionals like doctors and lawyers want a place they can feel comfortable in. Quite a lot of posts both pro and con appear here at Dave's, but many seem to share my view that meat is meat and if it ain't gonna kill you....chow down. It can be prepared a variety of ways and they're all delicious.
Mashigetdaseyo!!!

Dr. Buck · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Land of the Morning Clam

Suit yourselves. In my opinion, it's wrong to eat dog. They are man's best friend. It's an act of betrayal. Not to mention how they are beaten to death. I hear the sounds of dogs being tortured everytime I go fishing in the Korean boondocks. It's a sickening sound.

But go along and eat dog and go native and pretend you are really absorbing Korean culture by stuffing your piehole. Eating dog will make your Korean friends impressed. Maybe they will say to you, " You are Korean!" They will beam with delight that you lowered your Western standards to their primitive level.

As for health benefits, the soup isn't anymore healthier than anything else. It's pure nonsense to believe so, and thinking that is in the same league as believing in the healing powers of all the endangered animals that are eaten because they are "good for health."

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject:

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Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

I agree with Dr Buck when he referred to the sound of the dogs being tortured. I work in the countryside and I've heard it too. It's absolutely horrible. You would swear that there were humans in there. Often the other dogs are watching the proceedings too. They go nuts.

poet13 · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

The manner of the animals death is despicable.
But mans' best friend? Please. It's meat. Before they were our best friend, we were their food.
Cultures all over the world use dogs as a source of protein. Mayan, some African, Lao, Viet, Chinese, Kmer, Filipino..... it's just food.
The French eat horse? Are you outraged? Don't be. It's still just meat.
So are you. Please quit smoking, lose some weight, and come see me.

I-am-me · Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Location: Hermit Kingdom

How dogs are killed is a lame excuse not to eat dog. If you eat meat or pork, those animals are killed. They alll suffer death to serve human needs. What is the difference really?

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

Dogs are simply more useful than just becoming someone's dinner, that's the simple fact.

Its fine that you don't have a problem with it. Don't forget to tell folks back home and hope for a good response.

billyJO · Joined: 13 May 2007 Location: Qatar

NO WAY....not man's best friend...i've heard this long time ago, but did'nt actually know how true this is. geezzzz....yeah respecting their culture fine, but please not the dog....

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:

The difference is clearly two-fold.

Number one: Dogs are purposely tortured. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens, fish are not. It is repugnant, and that is why the "primitive" label is appropriate.

Number two: Dogs are a domesticated animal, so the "they eat us" analogy is false. They are not a wild animal.

Obviously, the second argument is not overwhelming. But, the first argument is. We do not live in the ancient world. We live in a global economy, with high technology in korea, the same as in the West. It is a national embarassment that the torturing of dogs still goes on in this country. Any civilized nation will look down on Koreans for it.

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

Repugant. How can anyone who grew up with a dog in their home, eat dog? While I don't object to others eating dogs, I will not. It takes a cold heart to chow down on a dog. And meat is not meat, morally speaking. Repugnant.

billyJO · Joined: 13 May 2007 Location: Qatar

i ask an office mate (korean) about eating dog in korea....he simply says their blood is good, i said WHAT? he jsut smiled...i walk away quitely.

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

enns · Joined: 02 May 2006

I can't find a reasonable explaination not to eat dog. How is it different than eating horse(which can also be a useful animal) or really any other animal? If the alledged torture was corrected would it make it ok? And don't tell me that cows, pigs, and chickens don't suffer before their deaths, it's just that we don't hear or see this suffering.

People tend to be against eating animals that are cute(look at the seal hunt protests in Canada), I don't find this to be a good reason in which to base an argument. Having said all this, my emotional attachment to dogs won't let me eat them.......but I'm not going to try to justify my emotions with logic.