Dog meat hot among Korea and China's trendy young

The Straights Times ^ | 30 June 2002 | Ng Hui Hui

[goodieD]

I have 2 dogs and 2 cats. I've also had rats, fish and mice as pets. But I never pretend that they are human or have human thoughts or emotions. I do not pretend that they think in the way humans do. My dachshund eats cat crap, My biggest neuter cat tries to hump the little neuter cat. If you die alone in the house, your dogs may not try to eat you but your cats sure will. We are humans, we may do some pretty stupid things but we are still top of the food chain because God made it that way.
What on earth makes you think your dog would die for you? Did you ask it? Did you "feel" that he would?
Don't pity me, I enjoy my pets, but I sure wouldn't trust any of em with my life, even though I treat them extremely well. If I was in trouble, my dachshund would try to lick my rear, the big dog would take a nap, and the cats would go hide under the bed. But then again, I don't expect my animals to have any "loyalty"..because that's a human thing and they are animals.

[sam_paine]

AHA! Now I know why they named that breed "CHOW."!

[B4Ranch]

a cow farm where the cows were side by side in a fenced area,

This is a 'feed lot' where the cattle are fed different grains to fatten and change the taste of the meat. A grass fed cow has a yellowish fat, a grain fed cow has white fat. This is the meat hat is common in stores. The flavor of meat is determined by the taste of the fat that is within the meat.

[4Freedom]

Two wrongs make a right in Korea?

There's the difference. That's why the people of the far eastern cultures can't thrive without large infusions of cash and assistance from the West.

They're savage and cruel societies. There's no respect in China for human life. Why should they respect the life of a dog?

Here in the West, if you see cruelty being committed, there's action you can take. We have laws to prevent cruelty and the perpetrators are prosecuted.

If you and your family can't see a difference in raising common farm animals and killing them humanely and stringing a dog up by it's neck and beating it to death, in front of a cage full of other dogs, you don't belong anywhere near the United States.

When was the last time you heard of a cow dragging a baby from a burning building?

When was the last time you heard of a chicken that saved a child from drowning?

I pity you.

[Lake]

>>We ate dog and cat,

You know what this is called in Chinese? "Xu Wei", means hypocritical. A Chinese proverb about how a mother taeches his son. The mother tells the son not to be close to butchers (since butchers are so cruel and pigs being slaughtered are so poor and helpless) while giving her son a delicious dish of pork.

[NC_Libertarian]

Dogs are usually strung up by their necks and beaten repeatedly to increase the flow of adrenaline in their flesh. Consumers believe the more pain the animals suffer, the more tender the meat becomes.

The dogs would struggle, howl, urinate and bleed till they become unconscious. Finally, they are chopped into pieces. All these are done in front of other dogs awaiting the same fate.

I can't stand the thought.

I don't think we have the right to tell them they can't eat dog, however, because I don't want someone telling me I can't eat cow.

But man, there is a big difference. And we don't torture our animals before slaughter. At any rate I hope something is done about the torture, at the least.

[NC_Libertarian]

As far as I know, those are food dogs, not pet dogs.

WTH is the difference?!

[4Freedom]

Hindus worship rats and cockroaches, too. So what?

You can't tell the difference between a dog and a cow, rat or cockroach? You don't see a difference between the way a dog relates to human beings as opposed to most farm animals or vermin?

You've got a problem.

[maui_hawaii]

I have had scorpions, silk worm coccoons, grasshoppers, and turtle soup, and I even got to pick out the turtle I wanted.

That soup was the best stuff I have ever eaten in my life.

Scorpions were fried and not too bad... the silk worm coccoons were like eating a cotton ball, only more dry.

You gotta pull the wings off of the grasshopper because they burn in the cooking process... and leave a bad aftertaste...

[Temple Owl]

Aw c'mon Bob! She is abviously a Democrat. Look at her eyes.

[4Freedom]

BUMP!

[maui_hawaii]

Re: #22.

WOW! I would not only accept, I would treat her... very nicely.

Korea has some fine looking women.

[Robert Lomax]

I see the Dog Rights people are already out protesting how bad this is. I personally like my dog cooked up with garlic, onions, soy sauce, little bit of sugar, and with alot of red pepper to spice it up.

[NC_Libertarian]

Do any people there have dogs as pets?

[4Freedom]

I don't care what she looks like. If she has the heart to string up a dog and beat it to death in front of me, she better be wearing some exceptional body armor when she commits an act of cruelty like that.

[Fishing-guy]

In this part of the country, we eat crawfish and they are considered a delicacy. The state keeps on promoting the eating of a creature that looks like a big rat (the name escapes me right now). So far, very little takers. Who wants to eat a big rat?

Certainly, I don't think we should criticize what other people eat. I think the important point of this article is that animals should be killed humanely.

[maui_hawaii]

Re:#22

After seeing that picture, I am seriously considering moving to Korea for that very purpose :)

[Tennessee_Bob]

If she has the heart to string up a dog...

Easy solution to this situation. Don't go to Korea.

There - your problem is solved.

[NC_Libertarian]

I'm not begruding them their right to eat dogs, as disgusting a practice as it is, but nobody should be torturing animals first, either directly or via their living conditions.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I wouldn't mind going back to Korea myself. Spent three months there on a TDY when I was in the Air Force. They have some of the most beautiful women in the world there.