Dog Eating Festival

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The Geezer

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Seems our morality is outraged by the goings on in China.

Is China truly a barbaric country or is it our sensibilities as pet lovers being challenged by a few people in China who will happily eat something we call a pet ?

As a cat lover and owner, I was outraged at first and then thought it is their part of the world and they can do what they like after all I'm a meat eater but prefer to eat the traditional meats. I don't have the same history as the Chinese where they suffered under the Revolution so wastage and suffering is not something I will comprehend.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32965554
 
I'm not particularly opposed to the actual eating of dogs. However, I am strongly against the brutal nature of the way the dogs are stored, transported, treated and killed.
 
I have no problem with them eating dogs etc (well I do, but no justification for it) but it's the way they do it. I don't even want to look. It's downright disgusting.
I know it's far far far from perfect here (chicken processing plants so bad I don't eat it) but what goes on over there does genuinely make me disgusted to be a human

I didn't read the link as I can't stomach it
 
When you educate yourself to the brutality of our own meat habits, it's hard to get too righteous over the preferences of other countries.

I'd rather the dogs were well treated in life, and killed swiftly and with experiencing as little fear as practical, but I don't feel especially strongly otherwise.
 
I was on holiday in China and one day we did a cookery class and they took us to the local market in Yangshou. You could see dogs and cats hung up skinned and gutted ready to be sold/butchered into cuts.

I don't see the problem to be honest, meat is meat. Its pretty daft to sympathetic to one animal but happy to eat another. The only reason I wouldn't eat it, is that I don't think eating carnivorous animals is a very good idea, nothing scientific.
 
cheesyboy said:
I'd rather the dogs were well treated in life, and killed swiftly and with experiencing as little fear as practical, but I don't feel especially strongly otherwise.
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I can only echo this really. As I sit here with my 4 legged best friend... :(
 
I am of mixed blood from all over the world and can tell you that there are a lot of misconceptions with this dog eating business. In the orient dogs are eaten as much as horse is in this country. Few people eat them and the ones that do tend to be older more traditional people or people eating it for the novelty. The average person in the orient views dogs not too differently from ourselves, although they are probably more desensitised to the idea as it is not unheard of and you can see the meats available hanging in markets.

People getting out raged at the eating of one animal over the other over sentimentality is ridiculous. I have many friends who believe it is animal abuse mainly because they are kept in cages and killed for food when in their eyes they could be a pet for someone. Newsflash, the vast majority of your food is kept in cages and in little better conditions until they are sent to the butchers block.

I am more outraged at this petition to prevent this festival. It just seems like people with different rules trying to enforce their opinion on others.

I have worked with major supermarket chains before and have seen first hand how bad some of our own 'farms' are and can tell you that our conditions were no better and possibly worse than the ones in the article, with the only difference being that the cages and animals were more organised. The media are after a hate storm to publish and people are looking for ways to condemn a culture they dont understand by pointing out that it disagrees with general western morals. If you really wanted to help the animal kingdom in its fight against animal abuse, we should start with our own meat factories. It isnt the once a year dog eating festival that is the injustice, the real injustice is that animal abuse on this level happens all over the world, all year round and goes unnoticed/ignored because it brings cheap meats to our shelves. Support local farmers and help small businesses as well as reduce the amount of maltreated animals that end up under the knife.

I have tried dog meat myself as well as a number of exotic meats for novelty and to quench my curiosity. In the east, dog is generally thought of as a meat that helps you recover vitality and health.
 
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The Chinese are pretty bad as far as animal cruelty is concerned.

I guess eating dogs in itself can be argued to be not much different to eating say pigs... we find it distasteful as we are used to dogs just being pets. However there is minimal regulation over there and the way some of these animals are treated is pretty barbaric.

Frankly they're worse than the French and almost as bad as the Japanese as far as animal suffering for food is concerned.
 
dowie said:
The Chinese are pretty bad as far as animal cruelty is concerned.

I guess eating dogs in itself can be argued to be not much different to eating say pigs... we find it distasteful as we are used to dogs just being pets. However there is minimal regulation over there and the way some of these animals are treated is pretty barbaric.

Frankly they're worse than the French and almost as bad as the Japanese as far as animal suffering for food is concerned.
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There is much more regulation here, however it is to do more with keeping things clean, organised and disease free rather than in favour of animals well being. Considering what i have seen, i don't think the animals would prefer the conditions of a battery farm over the Chinese equivalent.

Tell me, what makes the average Japanese and French person 'as bad' as the average Chinese person when it comes to animal cruelty. A fair bit of generalising and assuming going on here. The average Japanese person would think us sick for the hunting of foxes with dogs, despite only a small minority wanting to practice it.
 
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They are very barbaric, but not because they eat animals we have as pets. Skinning animals alive in the middle of a busy market is high up there on the barbaric acts scale though.

It's not just animals they are cruel to. They also seem to have zero compassion for their fellow human.
 
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