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It seems to be tolerated in Korea but would you like to see it accepted in your home country? (For apologists, this means the country you were born in.)

[andrew]

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[FlagWaver]

Dogs would eat your flesh if there was nothing for them to eat and you were dead.


In ancient Persia, dogs were one of the preferred means disposing of corpses.

[Gopher]

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[mole]

I saw dogs eating human corpses in Iraq.
In Korea dogs are just food. And tasty.

[peppermint]

For me personally- no.
For everyone else in whatever country- so long as no one's forcing me to eat it, and neighborhood pets aren't being hunted, what business is it of mine?

[indytrucks]

Who cares?

[desultude]

Funny how topics rotate through here.

Okay- eat what you want- just don't torture it beforehand. Do you know how those dogs are killed?


Yes, the animals we eat are not treated so well, but they are not deliberately and systematically tortured to death.

[Gopher]

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[kathycanuck]

The whole market in dogs is incredibly cruel; it makes me furious to see posters here who advocate eating dogs to be "cool". Have you seen the picture posted here on Dave's of the crates with pups crammed together and loaded on trucks? The treatment of these animals is disgusting. Dogs have served people in so many ways; they are capable of great love and loyalty and they deserve a better fate than they receive here. I am really not rational on this issue because my Samoyed, and best buddy, saved me from a rapist. If people were starving I could understand taking any measures for survival; this is not the case here. Please stop encouraging this hideous trade...the best way to end this is by the non-acceptace of other cultures.
Flame away.

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[itaewonguy]

so if cows or sheep some how move into our living rooms and became our best friends.. does that mean we shouldnt eat them either.?
is it becuase they are pets? or is it because its not an appropriate animal for consumption?
how about seeing that on fear factor? downing a dog soup...

[red dog]

There's no law against eating dogs in Canada, but torturing animals to death could theoretically get you into trouble. You need proof for a criminal case, though, so I think it would be fairly easy to get away with the same cruel methods of slaughter that are used here ... that is, unless someone used a video camera to film the killing and went through all the necessary steps to bring the killers to justice. A time-consuming, expensive process. I'd rather see the industry not exist in the first place.

About other species of animals not being systematically tortured to death, I think people just don't think about the cruelty inherent in many common farming practices. In the case of chickens raised for egg production, I don't think it's at all an exaggeration to say that they're tortured every day of their lives. A few years ago I saw video footage of an egg farm investigation in Australia and it was appalling. Some birds had escaped from their cages and fallen into pits of manure, where they were trapped and dying of dehydration or suffocation. Other investigations in the United States and Canada have revealed similar atrocities.

If you castrated your pet dog or cat without anaesthetics, you'd certainly be charged with cruelty. But that practice is routine in animal agriculture, along with other painful procedures like branding, dehorning, debeaking (of chickens) ... and on many egg farms in the U.S., farmers deprive birds of food for days (I forget exactly how long, but I think it may be up to a week). It doesn't happen right in front of us so we prefer not to think about it, but it doesn't mean that it's less appalling than what dogs go through. I say protect the dogs AND other animals, everywhere on the planet.

[Rteacher]

See! ... That's why "red dog" was on my list of "Great Thinkers Who Were/Are Vegetarians" and why the rest of you posters are specifically not listed...
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