This issue is much more complex than animal rights propaganda would want you to believe. First, historically, dog meat has been consumed in in many parts of the world, including East and Southeast Asia, West Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas. And no one ever had any problems with that.
Second, it is not just China and Korea. In fact, more than twenty (!) countries around the globe still eat dog meat; however, in most nation dog meat consumption is usually confined to a few localities.
Dog meat is a delicacy; it is healthy and – if prepared properly, very tasty. It is not an everyday meat like chicken or pork – it’s a fragrant meat that’s enjoyed on special occasions. It’s an extremely fragrant red meat. Take a cross between beef and mutton, add extra meaty flavoring, and you’ve got the taste of a dog. It is so tasty and delicious that if it wasn’t for the “psychological thought of eating dog”, everyone would probably love it.
Third, most of the 25 million or so dogs consumed annually as meat worldwide, are NOT pets. They are the so-called Nureongi dogs – mid-sized with short yellow fur and melanistic masks that are bred specifically as food animals (i.e. fall into the ‘food animal’ category like pigs, meat rabbits, cows, sheep, goats, etc.). They are farm animals and never kept as pets.
True, the whole dog meat industry in China and Southeast Asia is cruel, barbaric, usually unsanitary and often criminal. In addition to farm-raised dogs, it uses stray and feral dogs and pet dogs (usually bought but sometimes stolen from their owners) which are often smuggled from other nations (e.g. from Thailand into Vietnam).
Acquired or stolen dogs are crammed into small cages and brought to a ‘transient camp’ where the ‘grade B’ dogs are immediately slaughtered for meat to be sold locally, ‘Grade A’ dogs are taken to the transient farms where they ae force-fed until they gain enough fat. After that, they are taken to markets in large cities, brutally slaughtered, skinned and sold as meat to major restaurants that serve this meal as a delicacy. Due to the inefficiencies of the slaughter process, dogs are sometimes thrown alive into a boiling water or into the hair-removing machine.
What should we do about this barbarity? Precisely nothing. A ‘war on dog meat trade’ declared by animal rights activists is even more stupid than the proverbial ‘war of drugs’. Because dog meat trade does not harm humans and even one human life is worth infinitely more than the lives of ALL dogs on Earth. Humans are – and always will be – superior to any and all animals.
Nobody is going to seriously harm the industry that serves millions of consumers (dog meat is consumed no more than several times a year), generates of billions of dollars in revenues and millions in taxes and creates tens of thousands of jobs in dirt-poor nations.
Besides, let’s supposed you have rescued 500 or so dogs (a typical size of wholesale dog shipment) from the dog traders. What are you going to do with these dogs? Where are you going to keep them? Who is going to pay for their food, shelter, spay/neuter, treating their diseases? 90% or so of these dogs are feral and farm dogs that are not adoptable (and there is no adoption tradition in dog-eating nations).
Therefore, you will either have to euthanize them (which makes your ‘rescue’ a total waste of time, effort and money) or to keep them in ‘dog’s jail’ for the rest of their lives (which is way worse than euthanasing them). Besides, it is totally immoral to spend a dime on dogs when millions of HUMANS in those nations live in horrible conditions and suffer immeasurably every day, hour and minute.
In time, the whole thing will gradually go away and the problem will take care of itself. Younger generations in dog-eating nations are becoming more and Westernized and less likely to consume dog’s meat. In China, in 2014, dog meat consumption went down by a third. Ten years from now, it will be all gone by itself.
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