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[Cthulhu]

Just wondering if people have tried that most unique of Korean dishes, the original "kibbles and bits?" I tried it a couple of times ages ago when I first came here, but lost interest in it (it seemed dry and not very tasty--maybe a bad batch?).

Subsequently there was a scandal about some of the dogs coming from medical labs and I really lost my taste for it. Without government inspection standards (meat quality and checking the killing method of the pooches) I wouldn't touch it, though I'm not adverse to it in concept.

[atina]

these dogs are "beaten and started on fire alive" (I am quoting some Korean adult students of mine) to bring out the adrenaline

it would be very humane of you not to eat anything made of dog meat.

it is not my case to say that one type of meat should be eaten and another not but we eat to live and no animal should suffer in this way so that we can have their adrenaline

[Cthulhu]

Wow--I knew they were beaten sometimes but set on fire? Anyway, that's one of the reasons why I don't eat it these days. Gov't inspections and standards should remedy that; unfortunately, as long as the West demonizes dog-eating, the Korean government has to turn an official blind eye to it instead of regulating it.

[gbm]

What's this? The Great Cthulhu turns away from dog soup because it wants to be humane and it fears pollutants from medical testing? My, how aeons of sleep in Rl'Yeh have changed your ways, my lord!

Perhaps if you want to be humane, though, you should take the opposite approach - or at least appear to. Try to de-demonize dog-eating among foreigners and hope the government starts regulating it. After all, shouldn't we be demonizing entities such as shoggoths instead of dog soup?

On a more serious note, I can't wait to get a chance to try it even tho i'm a little scared after the medical lab thing . . .

The dogs suffer a little, but so do a lot of animals raised for food. Why not stop eating meat all together if you're worried about the humane treatment of meat?

[Cthulhu]

Now, of course Great Cthulhu always eats things whole! No time for good or evil, chewing or torturing. It's up to my followers to make 'em suffer a bit! But let me tell you, everytime I heard of someone chewing down on one of my stinky cousins in the movie theater I see red...

Anyway, I'm not for super-comfy humane treatment, but it is true that the killing method of dogs can go over the line at times. There's no comparison to beatings and shocks to "soften" the meat. Perhaps veal back home comes somewhat close, though for different reasons...

And yes, the medical testing wasn't good. I remember getting sick right after the second time I had it, just a couple of weeks before the papers broke the medical labs story. Made me think, I'll tell you.

[jaderedux]

Actually I sort of like it.

Now growing up in farm country and beings that my father worked in a meat packing plant. I am just not too squimish about butchering.

BTW....to properly kill beef cattle it is stunned first NOT KILLED. Then it's throat is cut and it is shackled by one hoof and hung upside down to bleed. The heart must still be beating while the blood drains or the meat tastes bad. Not particularly humane either.

I went to Moran Market and they have large dog butchering section. Was a little disconcerting but, I didn't see any animals being tortured.

These animals are not pets, they are raised for meat just like cows.

But, everyone has a line they won't cross. In China I refused to eat cat and I won't eat silk pupae.

I don't condem anyone for not eating it and I don't try to convince anyone they should eat it. It is a cultural thing in some Asian countries. (not just Korea)

What does piss me off is the likes of Bridget Bardot and that bunch of rich, elitist snobs wailing and whining about something they don't know anything about. And oh by the way before she got a so called conscience Ms. Bardot sported a fur or two in her day.

My two cents.

Jade

[chi-chi]

"These animals are not pets."
Yes, they sometimes are. It is a special type of dog native to Korea, and I have seen them chained up or fenced up as pets, also I saw one in the vets office when I had my cat immunized.
I do not know the name of the breed, but it is a big, white dog. (Well, not really big, but bigger than the tiny toy dogs around here.)
Anyways, whatever but just so you know the dogs ARE kept as pets sometimes.

[Zyzyfer]

I tried it once. It was alright, but nothing I'm all eager to go eating just to say I did it or even because it was enjoyable. Just not my kinda taste.