By comparison in South Korea, China, etc the belief that torturing the animal before killing it makes them taste better causes dogs to undergo much pain and suffering before dying.
Marc Chin has a foundation to help dogs in asia and some of the videos he has posted left me sleepless for weeks.
"Due to a widely held belief that high adrenaline levels will produce tender meat and increase the supposed health benefits – dogs are sadistically made to experience extreme fear and suffering prior to death. They are tortured, dismembered, burned alive, electrocuted, crucified and nail gunned into walls, where they are tortured and kept alive to endure intolerable pain for sometimes up to 40 hours. Many of the toy breeds are boiled alive and then made into herbal supplements. Marc Ching has seen and video taped all of this first hand and even witnessed a dog strung up and burned alive with a blow torch right out in public at a local market where passersby were completely unfazed."
Good God! I could’ve gone my entire life not knowing this.