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HAPPY BOSHINTANG DAY!
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Jarome_Turner



Joined: 10 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:16 pm    Post subject: HAPPY BOSHINTANG DAY! Reply with quote

So the day has arrived to "Eat the meat to beat the summer!" (I made that up myself).
Headin up the hill to the fortress to indulge in some boiled canine deliciousness with my lady and her family. Should be a good time as it's a beautiful sunny day!

Anybody else indulging today? If not, be warned that you may be forced to face the rest of the summer with little to no energy!! Very Happy
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Dev



Joined: 18 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, it's a great chance to contribute to animal cruelty.

You'll be a proud person knowing that you're giving money to people who intentionally torture dogs by beating or burning them to death with blow torches.

That's something to be proud of. Very Happy
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HapKi



Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

초복
중복
말복

Right, and if you miss out on today there are still two days left- July 25th (중복) and Aug 14 (말복). I call them the Dog Days of Summer.
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cwemory



Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So... is it officially the end of the rainy season then?
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shaunew



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just finished mine. I will miss our dog tho Crying or Very sad
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Axl Rose



Joined: 16 Feb 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a reformed/recovering Boshintang eater. As a newbie with natural curiosity as to what dog tastes like, I ate it several times and the soup itself is interesting and nice, but the meat itself is incredibly overrated. Really - what's the attraction??

Although I condemn dog meat's illegality (prohibition does not make dog meat go away, does the opposite of improve dogs' treatment, and quadruples dog meat's value making the industry more lucrative - like drugs, like alcohol during Prohibition) I also condemn the way animals are treated in Asia. See the Japanese dolphin torturers, the Chinese moon bear torturers (that's the most gruesome, prolonged torture of animals I've ever seen) in addition to the Korean dog beaters. Most absurdly of all, these are people and cultures that consider themselves ethically, culturally superior to the trashy, decadant West. This is often implied, sometimes declared, but never justified in the lofty Western scientific tradition. Chinese and Koreans also abort baby girls.

Cruel, barbaric races. Ghandi said a world is judged by the way it treats its animals. The East fares very badly indeed and the thought of me, the wide-eyed newbie munching on dog soup in front of onlooking adjoshis makes me want to abandon myself to a monastery. I should be sterilized.
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I-am-me



Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can put your mind at easy now. Korea will start cloning dogs soon. Eat rover and then go pick up another copy of him. Razz
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Jarome_Turner



Joined: 10 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This just in: it was delicious.
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The beating of the dogs is an old, outdated practice. Most restaurants don't do it anymore.
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bibbitybop wrote:
The beating of the dogs is an old, outdated practice. Most restaurants don't do it anymore.


Yeah, now they just strangle them while humming a lullaby. Most restaurants, anyway.
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bibbitybop wrote:
The beating of the dogs is an old, outdated practice. Most restaurants don't do it anymore.


Huh? What?

http://www.koreananimals.org/animals/dogs.htm

http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/korean.html

http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/

Be sure to look at the graphic photos and also to read about the cats here in those links.
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cwemory



Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
Bibbitybop wrote:
The beating of the dogs is an old, outdated practice. Most restaurants don't do it anymore.


Huh? What?

http://www.koreananimals.org/animals/dogs.htm

http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/korean.html

http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/

Be sure to look at the graphic photos and also to read about the cats here in those links.


To be fair, that's nothing any worse than you would see up close in the factory farming of cows, pigs, or sheep. Unless you're a vegetarian, it seems rather hypocritical to condemn Koreans for these practices to dogs. But, if you are vegetarian...
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cwemory wrote:
CentralCali wrote:
Bibbitybop wrote:
The beating of the dogs is an old, outdated practice. Most restaurants don't do it anymore.


Huh? What?

http://www.koreananimals.org/animals/dogs.htm

http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/korean.html

http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/

Be sure to look at the graphic photos and also to read about the cats here in those links.


To be fair, that's nothing any worse than you would see up close in the factory farming of cows, pigs, or sheep. Unless you're a vegetarian, it seems rather hypocritical to condemn Koreans for these practices to dogs. But, if you are vegetarian...


Exactly. Actually, electrocution is common, not strangulation.
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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dev wrote:
Yep, it's a great chance to contribute to animal cruelty.

You'll be a proud person knowing that you're giving money to people who intentionally torture dogs by beating or burning them to death with blow torches.

That's something to be proud of. Very Happy


Can you remember the punk band Slaughtering the Dogs they sangWhere have all the boot boys gone?

They're teaching in Korea. I still wear Doc Martins dress shoes.
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cwemory wrote:
To be fair, that's nothing any worse than you would see up close in the factory farming of cows, pigs, or sheep.


Actually, it is much worse than you would see in those industries in the US at least. The cows, pigs, and sheep are not tortured and skinned alive nor are they beaten all over just before slaughter.

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Unless you're a vegetarian, it seems rather hypocritical to condemn Koreans for these practices to dogs. But, if you are vegetarian...


I am vegetarian. Even if I weren't, though, I would object to the Korean practice of eating dog due to the extreme cruelty of it. The "stamina" myth is also a good reason to object.
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