Posted on 02/13/2018 9:38:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I’ll have three dogs. Loaded!
Does on woof down their meal?
I get why the government for tourism reasons might want to pay to have the local restaurants refrain from serving it during a big event like this.
But I think it is silly of us to sneer so when we pretend the Olympics is a great multicultural event.
Dogs not necessarily any smarter than pigs, who are genetically closer to us. And cows and chickens, for example, can be just as sweet and friendly as many dogs.
Kusan or Kunsan? I've been to Kunsan but cannot find Kusan.
There are myriad examples of western cultures eating domestic pets to survive. Look at what happened in Kosovo in the 90s. And it's entirely likely that you will hear the same out of Venezuela.
When it comes to survival, if it's certain death due to starvation vs. eating my beloved pet, I'm sorry sweetie, but Fluffy is being cooked.
Unless you have a hunting dog or a dog bred for killing or protection, sparing their life out of deference for social norms is ridiculous. If your dog don't hunt, it's lunch.
Korean family to he new neighbors:
And here are out three pets, Fido, Rover, and Cube Steak...
If you're like me, and aren't interested in tasting dog meat, don't order or buy it if it's available.
IMHO, the problem comes when dog meat is substituted for the expected fare of traditional meat to the unknowing diner.
I came across a story by an ex-Navy guy that said his ship was leaving Subic Bay, and the last paper they got had a blurb about a bar he ate at before returning to the ship. It was shut down for substituting illegal dog meat in the meat appetizers.
The only thing this current media fetish is doing is temporarily raising the price of such dishes for the more adventurous eaters.
Sometimes in American restaurants with Asian/Chinese food the ‘beef’ tastes dog- like. Makes me wonder what it really is.
The Ka-gogi memories I have from my “stints” in Korea is the Korean’s method of killing these dogs. They beat them to death and you would frequently hear a dog cry and scream for hours before it finally died. It was believed that the longer it took for the dog to die, the better the meat would taste.
Yes, that’s a memory I wish I could expel from my recollections of Korea.
As did the Shackleton Expedition to the South Pole.
When people are starving they will eat anything, even the most repulsive things, even beyond human flesh.
If you aren’t starving and you eat dogs, you aren’t an American, that is for sure.
I sometimes get in trouble for this here, but I divide creation into two groups: Man, for which Christ died to enable us to enter into eternity, and natural resources. If it is not in the first group, it is in the second group.
And I love dogs. I have two and have taken in “dropped off” dogs. I avoid deer, and even rabbits, though I’ve harvested one of the former and about 20 of the latter on my commute since moving to KY.
But I very strongly separate animals, value wise, from humans. It is a travesty when someone’s beloved pet dies. It is natural when someone slaughters and eats an animal, even a dog. And as much as I love my dogs, if times got really bad and my family was starving, we would not hesitate to do the same to them, though we would starve to death before we would eat humans.
But I have my “pragmatist” hat on right now.
Now I have my pet lover hat on...
I’m with you there.
In Halal meats they cut the carotid neck arteries and let it bleed out. Takes a few minutes for the animal to die as the heart pumps out most of the blood. I’d rather it be quickly decapitated and spare the prolonged agony for the animal.
That does nothing to change my opinion, sweetie. I love my dog.
Sorry. Wasn’t using “sweetie” in reference to you. Oxford comma screwed me over.
That’s hilarious, dawg.
A Double Red Rover Burger with Squid Chips please
I hear you. I think some of our prohibition against considering humans like animals is the societal mayhem that would necessarily result.
But yeah, peeps ahead of peeps, so to speak.
And I understand why we separate our pets from the animals we see in a more utilitarian or distant way, but I think that is actually not well founded (other than the societal mayhem it would cause), and so our contempt for the Korean cultural way is weakly grounded.
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