China Bans Dog Meat During Olympics
[Photo from TrekEarth]
During the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, the government banned some restaurants from serving dog meat and encouraged Koreans to not eat dog when around foreign visitors. There was a lot of hoopla surrounding this, with anti-dog meat organizations rallying and "Korean culture" supporters defending their right to eat dog meat. It's important to note that there were Korean natives and foreigners on both sides of the argument, and I'm sure there always will be.
Looks like China has done the same for the Beijing 2008 Olympic summer games. "Restaurant workers are advised to 'patiently' suggest other options to diners who order dog." [source]
That goes along with a list of all sorts of things they've covered up from foreign eyes for the Olympics.
We've eaten dog meat in many places around China, and other countries, and we've even seen in on the menu at some luxury hotels and airport lounges. The shocking, gruesome pictures of dog meat you might find on the internet are often taken in rural villages, where the butchering and cooking of animals is usually out in the open, for public viewing. It's the same for most slaughtered animals there. You can hand-pick your fish or chicken or goat, and have it slaughtered, butchered, bled, and cooked right before your eyes. How is this different from what happens every day in the modern, urban, Western world? We do our slaughter behind closed doors. But we still do it, and you eat it and you pay for it to be done again (vegetarians excluded, of course).
More about eating dog meat.
And more about anti-weird meat propaganda.
Labels: animal rights, china, dog, dog meat
posted by Michael @ 2:23 AM
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9 Comments:
Nice blog you get here buddy..Dog Meats are also been popular here in the Philippines but nowadays it was being banned by the animal welfare. So, it became illegal to butcher a dog here..But dog meat really tastes good when cook well (it taste like duck meat too). It brings heat to your body, something like an aphrodisiac (is my spelling correct). Some beer drinkers here always make it sure that there's a dog meat on the table.
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Cool blog. The pictures of dog meat were wierd. I think China did a good thing by trying to make a good impression on thier foriegn visitors. Hope you write a new post soon.
Hi there,
Just found this blog and I love it!
I see myself as a strange food eater too. Being a Chinese, I'm used to eat all kind of food that Westerners may consider as something disgusting. Just name it: every inner part of lamb (intestine, kidney, lungs, even testicle (it's a popular soup here in Indonesia! I can show you the picture should you interested to see). Dog meat is a food I eat once in month, also lizard, snakes, monkey, pigeons, horse, etc, etc.
the modern, urban, Western world？bushit
@ 草根博客 ... what are you trying to say?
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
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you're an asshole.
dogs get beaten to death and treated even worse than all the other animals. you should do your homework.
someone should treat you just once like they treat those poor dogs.
Buying this meat,only encourages the beastiality of torture inflicted on these poor animals which by the way only were domesticated to protect,love and deprnd on us for the same.thank you for contributing to the worst types of torture to mans best friend and only loyal companion.not to mention the love these guys get from burning,skinning beating,butchering these poor guys alive.china has no animal welfare laws.and you are giving them credit?you need help.
Because Livestock Processing Act does not cover dog meat, there is no restriction about how to kill a dog for meat. At the meat market, the need to slaughter the dogs quickly usually means dogs are electrocuted, similar to cattle. However, especially in rural areas where people slaughter dogs to cook and eat on their own, the common method is to hang the dog and beat it to death, in an attempt to tenderize the meat. (This, however, may be counterproductive; while beating the meat does tenderize it, an animal that dies in a stressed state generally produces tougher and less tasty meat.)
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