” For instance, in Vietnam, dog meat is very commonly eaten.”
Not commonly. And mostly in the north. I did once (in two years) see a live dog delivery truck in South Korea.
The Vietnamese family I grew up with ate Chow from outside kennels on the regular. Burt’s dad was was high ranking officer in the South Vietnamese Army they were relocate to rural south east Texas along will hundreds of others. There land bought by the US gov all 25 acres of it butted up to ours and the two other families on the four corners as we called it. I have eaten Chow since I was 6 or so I learned to use chop sticks before a fork from Viet’s family we were communal kids would be dropped off for a week at a time with one of the four corners and that family would watch them while the other parents traveled or whatever. I wouldn’t change my upbringing for anything. We had Vietnamese on one corner, Cajuns on the other and British Irish opposite my Native American and Spanish colonial Tejano family. We all.got the best of all worlds those guys are my brothers to this day when a parent dies it’s like a lose of a biological parent they raised us. We shared food and responsibilities; If that makes us commies then we are commies and I wouldn’t change that for the world.