Dog Eating Festival

That fish video is no biggy. I am a fisherman (mainly carp) and as you may know fishing is among the most practice sport in the country. Live baiting is a pike technique which involved hooking a live fish onto barbed treble hooks to let them attract predatory fish like pike, does that make the English barbaric?

I do not doubt this stuff happens but again it is a minority. If you want to use it to assign your views to a nation or to a people then go ahead but you cant expect to do so, so vocally, without at least seeming bigoted.

Oh and though battery farming is illegal in this country, don't think it doesn't exist anymore. I have personally seem farms which could definitely be called battery farming but because it fits the regulations assigned, it is technically not.

If you want to blame people for cruelty, hold the individuals responsible.
 
dowie said:
most of the world would be stuck in the past with even higher infant mortality rates and minimal education if it wasn't for western interference over the past few hundred years...

We've got every right to voice concerns about animal rights, human rights etc..
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Yes, voicing our outrage at another country doing something we don't find palatable is our right, but our rights end there.
 
Hold the individuals responsible... nah, how about the country that allows it... production of Foie Gras is illegal in the UK but legal in France

Eating cuts of meat from a live donkey or wind drying live chickens is fine in China...

Perhaps fish aren't so well protected... but we're not talking about individuals here rather lack of animal cruelty laws and an unwillingness to legislate.

I'm just calling out cruelty - tis only 'bigoted' if you're sensitive... and frankly that is a poor response in general to criticism.
 
hyperseven said:
For the 'meat is meat brigade', so cannibalism is fine I take it :rolleyes:
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Not really, cannibalism is fraught with risks in regards to health. However, plenty of species of animals have no problem eating their own.

As for dogs and cats being prepared in market places... how is it any different to a fresh fish mongers here in the UK? Is it less barbaric just because they're fish?
 
peige said:
Yes, voicing our outrage at another country doing something we don't find palatable is our right, but our rights end there.
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Nope they don't... granted in the case of animal rights then applying pressure to less progressive countries is about it. In a general sense, in the case of human rights it isn't and we can apply sanctions and/or intervene if necessary.
 
Dogs are not like cows, pigs or other animals we eat. Humans and dogs have been co-evolving for hundreds of thousands of years if not more and, although no as intelligent as apes, dolphins or even pigs, the ease with which they can communicate with us, often without any form of training, is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.

In my opinion, eating dog meat is not far from cannibalism.
 
Zethor said:
Dogs are not like cows, pigs or other animals we eat. Humans and dogs have been co-evolving for hundreds of thousands of years if not more and, although no as intelligent as apes, dolphins or even pigs, the ease with which they can communicate with us, often without any form of training, is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.

In my opinion, eating dog meat is not far from cannibalism.
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That's nonsense. Dogs are animals like any other. The distinction between animals that it's okay to eat and those that aren't is entirely human creation.

Some people happily keep chickens as pets and wouldn't dream of eating them. If that were a more common human behaviour, chickens would be off the table for eating too.
 
Zethor said:
Dogs are not like cows, pigs or other animals we eat. Humans and dogs have been co-evolving for hundreds of thousands of years if not more and, although no as intelligent as apes, dolphins or even pigs, the ease with which they can communicate with us, often without any form of training, is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.

In my opinion, eating dog meat is not far from cannibalism.
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Never go full retard.
 
dowie said:
type 'Feng Gan Ji' into google as per my previous post
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Yes, I'd done that and saw not one reputable source.

Nonetheless, I'm sure they do prepare the birds for such without waiting for them to be totally dead. We do the same, as it happens, with such a high failure rate on "stunning" the birds prior to net-cutting and scalding, and then processing.
 
I don't see the issue to be honest, I wouldn't want to eat dog meat personally but I would feel hypocritical to tell other cultures what animals they can and can't eat.

So long as they're not eating people of course. :D
 
Koru is the big cannibalism disease, but obviously human to human is far easier to transmit any disease. As lots of animal diseases do not harm humans.

Let alone we live in a society and your talking about peoples relatives.

It absolutely stupid to even make such a ridiculous comment.
 
dowie said:
The Japanese are probably the worst as far as sadistic dishes are concerned but the Chinese easily come a close second and the French are pretty bad too.

No assuming going on here just opinion of what is cruel - I think force feeding ducks is cruel, I think gouging the eyes out of a little bird and then rearing it blind so it fattens itself up and can be eaten as a delicacy is cruel.... And that is just the French.

For the Chinese we have 'Feng Gan Ji' type it into google tis probably too graphic to post here - basically live chickens have their guts removed then are hung up to be wind dried... And of course their treatment of animals in general.

For the Japanese we've got their live food... they'll do this with lobsters, squid, fish, frogs even...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri


fish is cut swiftly and still conscious as it is served up... you can eat the 'sushi' as the fish watches you...

here is one of a frog: *warning only click play if you're not squeamish* (hope this is OK to post - tis there to illustrate a point but isn't pleasant)
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