Posted on 07/14/2009 11:35:34 PM PDT by Tamar1973
I don't need a calendar to know it's summer. I know it's summer time when newspapers and blogs worldwide start discussing, analyzing and criticizing Korea's history and ongoing medicinal consumption of boshintang (dog meat soup).
A blogger for the LA Times newspaper posted a blog about the ongoing debate in South Korea over the consumption of dog meat. Members of a South Korean animal rights group called Coexistence for Animal Rights on Earth along with an American animal rights group called In Defense of Animals (IDA), sponsored a protest asking the South Korean government to make the killing of dogs and cats for food illegal and to vigorously enforce laws already on the books against the practice.
(Excerpt) Read more at koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com ...
BTTT
Meat is meat; you have to kill an animal to eat it.
I’m not a dog or a cat eater, but I sure eat my share of chicken, beef and pork. Who’s to say that some busybody on a crusade won’t try to get MY favorite carcass treats banned?
In my personal philosophy, people work on their own defects and flaws, and don’t expect to right all the wrongs of the world by focusing their attentions on OTHER peoples perceived defects and flaws.
If Koreans like dog meat soup, they ought to be able to eat their fill without shame or criticism.
One of the common criticisms is that traditionally the dog is seriously tortured before killing it because supposedly the increase in adrenaline that floods into the dog while it’s tortured is supposed to make men who consume the dog meat more virile.
THAT is a practice that ought not be condoned in ANY culture.
The practice of torturing the dogs before killing them is far less common in South Korea than in years past but I’m sure the animal rights groups over there have no compunction about exaggerating how common that practice is just to pursue their agenda.
The practice of torturing the dogs before killing them is far less common in South Korea than in years past but I’m sure the animal rights groups over there have no compunction about exaggerating how common that practice is just to pursue their agenda.
Your comment brought back a long repressed memory of seeing a dog being readied for sale at the Hongeun-dong market in Seoul back around 1995 or so. The dog (kept live in cages until sold) was put into a burlap sack and beaten with sticks. The poor creature’s pitiful cries were quite unbearable, although I suppose for the buyer it was evidence that he was getting what he paid for.
Over the next ten years that I lived in Seoul I never saw that scene repeated although the Hongeun-dong dog market remained in the same location until I left Seoul in 2006.
LOL!!!!!
Is there a recipe for buldogi on YouTube? Yuck.
No recipes but there are videos of people trying it.
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