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[saram_]

..up on menus in dog restaurants here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPYK3yTqWY&feature=share


KBS Expose the Myth that only specific breeds of dogs are for human consumption-
Worth a look..

[rollo]

Good! So tired of poodle.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

Cruel bastards.

[Skipperoo]

Wait wait wait.

They're eating CUTE dogs?

I am now enraged.

[littlelisa]

Skipperoo: It's not that people are upset that the dogs are cute. Or at least that shouldn't be it.

What is upsetting is that people are buying dogs almost on a whim for their cuteness (mostly from pet stores, which mostly come from puppy mills where dogs are bred and poorly treated, then taken away from their parents too young so that they sell faster because they look cute), then abandoning them on the streets because they can't be bothered to care for them (something they gave no thought to beforehand), where they are then picked up and treated horribly, to then end up squished in tiny cages with other dogs, and then electrocuted - or worse - beaten and then they get eaten. Did you see the video where they beat one with a metal rod?!

This is a whole chain that breeds dogs that are abandoned and then tortured. What a disgusting mess.

People who get upset about dogs being eaten are often reassured, it's okay, these are dogs that are bred specifically for eating. It's just like cows! Nobody is eating your pet. So some people are upset because they have an emotional connection to their pet and imagine if their pet was treated so badly. Or imagine that if they lost their dog that it could end up treated like this and then eaten.

But really I think we have to think that any animal being treated this badly is a disgusting thing, whether it is a specific breed raised for meat or not, whether it is cute or not, whether it is a dog or a pig.

I'm not saying everyone should be vegetarian either, I think that it should be a priority to have meat that did not come from cruelly treated animals period.

On another note, these dogs are being picked up from the streets and I can't imagine it being particularly healthy... they may have diseases or something, nobody knows where they came from and nobody is doing any kind of check to see about their health.

On a final note, it deals with sellers who are straight out lying. They should not be lying about it if asked, no matter what you feel about eating dogs or eating pets.

[PatrickGHBusan]

Well thats the end of it! Cute Dogs...now those deserve your sympathy people! Along with those cute cows and pigs because heck they deserve the same outrage and empathy from the "save the pooch" crowd.

As for pet abandonement, its a sad state of affairs when people by any animal and toss it out after a short while because its not the toy they thought they were buying....Animal shelters are chock full of these back here and animal shelters are bursting at the seams with abandoned animals around here. Some areas are better and some animals do better but once they reach the shelter, they are on the clock, a short clock, to being put down.

Now to the crux of the issue: if these animals are tortured (would like to see how one will then define this torture to animals) it is bloody wrong and these operators should be shut down (not holding my breath however...).

As for the rest of the "leave Benji alone" chant, it loses credibility each time of the chanters happily chomps down on bulgogi, bacon, steak, pork chops, Chicken, Turkey and so on.....

To me this is pretty much bang on:

I think that it should be a priority to have meat that did not come from cruelly treated animals period.

Now the debate opens up as to what constitutes cruelty and at HOW MUCH you are willing to pay for such meat....because at the end of the day, the average consumer will buy that steak thats cheaper, not considering how it was slaughtered or raised.

[coralreefer_1]

[thebektionary]

I think part of the argument is that dogs are intelligent creatures - but pigs are too and everyone eats them.

[PatrickGHBusan]

[TheUrbanMyth]

Not to mention the fact that a YouTube video is hardly credible evidence.

Particularly THAT YouTube video. You know how they were able to determine that former pets were being turned into dog meat?

On their size. That's right. That is the SOLE piece of evidence that they use to make this claim. Shoddy sensational journalism at its best. Just like every time some foreigners are caught doing something wrong we are tarred with the same brush on nothing more than skin color.

Yes everyone knows that some Koreans eat dog meat. Yes sometimes the animals are put to death in less than humane way (though that video didn't really show that). Provides plenty of fodder for trolls but since this comes up every year...it's getting a little tiring.

[eamo]

Does it matter which breed is used for dog meat?

The main issue should be the conditions they are kept in and how humanely they are slaughtered.

Unfortunately, due to the head-in-the-sand tactics of successive Korean governments, the dog meat industry is technically illegal and so therefore totally unregulated.

So the poor beasts, regardless of which breed they are, aren't treated well during their short lives. It's one of those shameful things that most Koreans don't want to face up to.

[TheUrbanMyth]

I quite agree. Humane conditions for killing animals for consumption should be the norm. Unfortunately they are not...around the world.

[littlelisa]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Zyzyfer]