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Clearly, some dogs will shamelessly use *any* issue, no matter how wicked.
(Even dragging in the name of St Therese of Canberra!!)
All in a desperate and pitiful pursuit of that elusive walkley.
FD, I think you should have named China along with South Korea. In North Korea dogs are farmed (to be eaten). In China, especially rural China, dead dogs and skinned cats are to be found at most meat stalls. And the rural Chinese regard every form of food to be fair game (No pun intended). Which is one of the reasons so little indigenous wildlife is to be seen throughout China.
Thankfully there is one very valuable dog who will not be threatened.
Woy Woy pound for you champ.
Political bite sized meaty chunks?……
As for the dogs for food conundrum …perhaps it has something to do with poverty. In Vietnam last January it was common to see female dogs with milk engorged breasts , but no other dogs? certainly no puppies. Someone said “did You see the puppies cut up on that table? ( outside butchers table displaying meat for sale) . No I didnt and glad for small mercies just the same.
People have to eat, bottom line - you produce people and you produce a demand on food resources OF ALL KINDS. Consider the fact that the principle diet of many central Australian people has been cat. The feral cat has eaten out traditional food resources and so……
VICKI: Certainly this sort of thinking originated with poverty. That’s why I mentioned North Korea and the farming of dogs. But hey, everyone in China is educated these days. Care for animals and conservation of wildlife are being taught throughout the world, why not in China?
To give you one of my favourite stories-relax, it has nothing to do with cruelty to animals. I was on a local Chinese boat going down the Yangtze. There were notices informing people, in English and Chinese, on the joys of putting your garbage in the proper bins. As I was waiting to get off the boat I saw a cleaner on the deck below. With a flick of her hand the contents of the rubbish bin went straight into the river. By nature I am a snoop. I rushed up a deck and saw the same thing being done by another cleaner.
I’m sorry to say the Chinese don’t as a nation, couldn’t care less. This is spite of the fabulous Panda reserve in Shanghai and all the people who visit it.
In South Korea there are people who have pets, including well fed dogs. But here the dog meat is considered to be a delicacy. In North Korea they have terrible poverty and farm dogs. In China where there is so much money AND an emerging middle-class. No one gives a hoot!
OK FD - is that you with the silly blue backward-facing baseball cap directing Richard Farmer’s diatribe on the inhumane killing of animals in third world countries? He’s right. And he can do another one on the horses sacrificed at the Victorian jumps and another on fox hunting and any other scenario depicting how wretched human beings are when they prey on the defenceless and trusting. BTW - did I see Richard at the Dapto Dogs the other night?
I don’t think anyone really cares if the Koreans eat dogs, but they do care that they torture them to death beforehand.