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Smithington
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Often outside restaurants in Korea one will see a photo or drawing of the animal served in the restaurant. (Usually of a cartoon "happy pig" apparently thrilled about being killed, gutted and grilled.) The one meat restaurant that doesn't do this are the boshintang restaurants. I suspect that they did have pictures of dogs on their signs before the 1988 olympics and simply figured that since foreigners can't read Korean all they needed to do was take down the photos and have the government state that dog meat has been banned.
Thirty years on the internet has transformed the world. Look how fast the news had spread (probably due to not a few posters here on Daves) that Psy had called for the murder of Americans. It was covered by almost every news network in the States. Korea might have been able to fool the West, and the wider world, in 1988 and perhaps even in 2002, but not anymore. This will come out. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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The fact is that no one bats an eye at several European countries for commercially raising Horses (The 2nd longest and strongest animal symbiotic relationship humans have after the Dog, the Cat is 3rd) for meat.
Why draw the line between Dog and Horse? Last time I checked, Italy never goes through this during an Olympic bid/hosting. |
How are these horses raised, transported and killed? |
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young_clinton
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I don't think a lot of people realize that horse meat is readily available in Canadian supermarkets as well. |
That's good to know. Why am I not surprised. Perhaps the "Anglo Economic Union" that is now being discussed will help them along. Obviously there has to be more than "I'm Canadian, I'm better than you". That mentality only goes so far. I'm surprised though that Australia would entertain the idea of being joined together with those other countries, England, New Zealand and Canada. Three ball and chains.  Would a union like this affect trade with the US? If it did their little Canada's endeavor would fail.
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hellofaniceguy
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Not eating dogs? Some guy brought dog soup to the U.S. Ambassador when he was in the hospital last week...he declined. So much for koreans not eating dog.
The claim is that dog soup is good for sex. If that were true....every guy in the world would be eating Fido! |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
I don't think a lot of people realize that horse meat is readily available in Canadian supermarkets as well. |
That's good to know. Why am I not surprised. Perhaps the "Anglo Economic Union" that is now being discussed will help them along. Obviously there has to be more than "I'm Canadian, I'm better than you". That mentality only goes so far. I'm surprised though that Australia would entertain the idea of being joined together with those other countries, England, New Zealand and Canada. Three ball and chains. Would a union like this affect trade with the US? If it did their little Canada's endeavor would fail. |
What is this country called "England". I just checked the list of UN member countries and England is nowhere to be seen. |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| young_clinton wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
I don't think a lot of people realize that horse meat is readily available in Canadian supermarkets as well. |
That's good to know. Why am I not surprised. Perhaps the "Anglo Economic Union" that is now being discussed will help them along. Obviously there has to be more than "I'm Canadian, I'm better than you". That mentality only goes so far. I'm surprised though that Australia would entertain the idea of being joined together with those other countries, England, New Zealand and Canada. Three ball and chains. Would a union like this affect trade with the US? If it did their little Canada's endeavor would fail. |
What is this country called "England". I just checked the list of UN member countries and England is nowhere to be seen.
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England 50 million
Scotland 5 million
Wales maybe a couple million
Northern Ireland who nos?
Oops, Notice how I misused nos. Now there's something you can use. |
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Rutherford
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Often outside restaurants in Korea one will see a photo or drawing of the animal served in the restaurant. (Usually of a cartoon "happy pig" apparently thrilled about being killed, gutted and grilled.) The one meat restaurant that doesn't do this are the boshintang restaurants. |
Not true. I pass one on my bus ride home with cartoon puppies in a soup pot. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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You can't be serious. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| I don't think a lot of people realize that horse meat is readily available in Canadian supermarkets as well. |
Care to provide a link? |
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Chaparrastique
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| Come back to us when you stop eating factory farmed beef and pigs". |
The west does not beat live animals to death with iron bars. How a person can turn off their empathy while they do such a thing is beyond me. |
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northway
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northway
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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You can't be serious. |
I've seen that before, in Mapo, of all places. |
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Steelrails
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Often outside restaurants in Korea one will see a photo or drawing of the animal served in the restaurant. (Usually of a cartoon "happy pig" apparently thrilled about being killed, gutted and grilled.) The one meat restaurant that doesn't do this are the boshintang restaurants. I suspect that they did have pictures of dogs on their signs before the 1988 olympics and simply figured that since foreigners can't read Korean all they needed to do was take down the photos and have the government state that dog meat has been banned.
Thirty years on the internet has transformed the world. Look how fast the news had spread (probably due to not a few posters here on Daves) that Psy had called for the murder of Americans. It was covered by almost every news network in the States. Korea might have been able to fool the West, and the wider world, in 1988 and perhaps even in 2002, but not anymore. This will come out. |
Yeah Im sure if or when this story breaks the Olympics will come to a screeching halt just like Gangnam Style did...oh wait. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah Im sure if or when this story breaks the Olympics will come to a screeching halt. |
Yeah, because that's what people are saying now, isn't it? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
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| Yeah Im sure if or when this story breaks the Olympics will come to a screeching halt. |
Yeah, because that's what people are saying now, isn't it? |
What I'm insinuating is that this story which you think is going to come out and somehow cause great damage to Korea's reputation, will end up like the 50 other stories I've heard over the past 5 years that were supposed to finally expose Korea to the world as the hater brigade constantly predicts.
Face it, barring some Extreme- 9/11 level incident or tragedy, Korea is not going to get "exposed" and people won't suddenly care as much as you do.
Get it through your head- the rest of the world doesn't care about Korea as much as we think they do. No silver bullet is out there, and no Kristallnacht of hate is coming against the waygookin. Life here will just continue on its path of mediocrity. |
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