Posted on 08/18/2007 2:18:24 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
NEW DELHI (AP) - New Delhi's stray dogs lead a difficult life but if it was up to one city councillor, they would find themselves in more hot water - soup to be precise.
Shipping the thousands of strays to Korea to be consumed in soup was one of the more outlandish ideas proposed at a city council meeting to deal with the problem, the Hindustan Times newspaper reports.
None of the ideas - from the aforementioned Korean plan to drugging the canines so they sleep through the day - are likely to be implemented anytime soon.
Instead, the council chairman asked the presumably more responsible veterinary department to come up with a workable plan.
Tens of thousands of strays live in New Delhi.
Many are often cared for by people in the areas they live but some become aggressive and bites and rabies are a problem.
Efforts to sterilize them have been largely unsuccessful.
City councillor Mohan Prashad Bharadwaj said he had read Koreans are fond of dog meat and "maybe we can send all the stray dogs of Delhi there," the paper quoted him saying.
A soup with dog meat called boshintang is popular in Korea, especially on the three hot "dog days" of summer on the lunar calendar. The traditional belief is dog meat helps boost stamina and virility but activists regularly criticize the practice and call for bans on eating dog meat.
City officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Pup chowder ping!
And why not. Ruff’age is essential for a healthy diet.
I did see 2 dogs in Silchar, they were mid sized, short haired and looked more like dingos.
I can’t imagine my spoiled lab couch warmer doing well in either country.
Having been both to Korea and to India, in the latter of which I witnessed some of India’s extremely unfortunate stray dogs (also called pi dogs), I can say with some degree of assurance that Korea wouldn’t take them. Not even North Korea.
A medium-large-sized dog was hit by a jeep in front of our battle group’s headquarters in Camp Kaiser (Unchon-ni, Korea) and knocked to the side of the road.
The BG’s physician came out of the aid station and gave the dying pooch a shot and rolled the body into a drainage ditch at the side of the road.
A short time later, papasan came by on his bicycle and saw the dog’s corpse.
Tied that sucker to the rear fender and rapidly peddled off to the village in delight.
If it had been an Indian stray, he would have looked down, scratched his head, shrugged, and gone on his way.
well in reality that would come back to US as a secret sauce
perhaps we could ship our liberals over to India, i hear they taste like chicken, or they are chicken.
Sort of like migrant farmers ... they enter a nation to harvest the crop ... and like sharecroppers, they get a (large) piece of the action.
Or better yet ... all those caught on our southern border?
Ship 'em over to India to 'harvest the crop'.
There's ways and there's ways to do this folks.
(PS ... while in Uijongbu-ri, Korea, '65 - '66, I tasted dog ... it's pretty good.)
Good Gravy!!!!!
There are lots of rats in Delhi. They’re all over the trainstation. Maybe they would make a tastey soup.
Maybe Michael Vick could go there and help out as part of his plea bargain!
Rats on a stick!........
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