Posted on 12/27/2017 8:50:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Barking at their rescuers, labradors, beagles and mongrels desperately scrambled out of rusty cages in South Korea: saved from the dinner plate by a deal with dog-meat farmer Kim Young-Hwan.
In the face of falling demand, Kim agreed to close his establishment in exchange for compensation from US-based Humane Society International (HSI). The dogs are bound for a new life in adoptive homes in the West.
He is the 10th canine-meat farmer to accept such an offer in three years. The exact sums are confidential, but each deal requires hundreds of thousands of dollars once adoption costs are included.
"This business is doomed... I wanted to quit before it's too late," Kim said.
The 56-year-old had 170 dogs at his farm in Namyangju, north of Seoul.
"The price has plummeted in recent years," he told AFP. "I'm barely making ends meet these days. Plus I've been harassed by animal rights groups all the time. It's such a hassle."
The push by animal rights activists, including many overseas groups, to outlaw dog meat consumption in the South has sparked mixed reactions and accusations of Western hypocrisy.
- 'Lambs or rabbits' -
South Koreans are believed to consume about one million dogs a year as a summertime delicacy, with the greasy red meat -- which is invariably boiled for tenderness -- believed to increase energy. AFP / JUNG Yeon-Je The push by animal rights activists, including many overseas groups, to outlaw dog meat consumption in the South has sparked accusations of Western hypocrisy
The tradition has declined as the nation increasingly embraces the idea of dogs as pets instead of livestock, with eating them now something of a taboo among young South Koreans.
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” There’s something
unsavory about eating your best friend.
YMMV”
I guess if it depends if you think dogs are your best friends and not just another savory dinner menu item.
Send ‘em our pit bulls; save a shelter.
“Can anyone tell me why dogs are so different from other mammals that are eaten in large quantity?”
Yeah, that’s right, assh*le. Only snowflakes would see a dog differently. Dogs were valued in traditional American Culture. Makes no sense whatsoever to you, does it?. Perhaps you can tell me whats so special about Christmas, Family, the Constitution.....some other things that used to be valued in traditional America. Nothing special about them, right? Only a snowflake would value any of these things.
I see what you did there.
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Sounds like somebody is triggered.
Yes, a little triggered today.
Never made land but stationed off the coast in 1969 awaiting orders to light them up. This was right after they shot down our EC-121. We all got Korean Expeditionary ribbons but no notations in our service records.
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