South Korea passes law banning dog meat trade
South Korea passes law banning dog meat trade
Dog meat has fallen out of favour with diners in South Korea over the past few decades.
luckily Elwood's has you covered if you're in the Americas https://www.elwooddogmeat.com/
In oceania I have to go hunt roaming pet cats to get something reasonable to eat.
52my favorite order is:
25You're cool and I like you.
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I had my pitchfork at the ready when I clicked that link 😆
...but I get their point
14What a joke, they don't actually have any dog gone meat.
10Huh, must be sold out. Maybe panic over this ban?
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It's delicious, I heavily recommend it
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Ultimately a step in the right direction i suppose but there are a lot of animals that aren't dogs that also deserve not to be bred and slaughtered for their meat.
Ultimately a dogs life is worth no more or less than a pig or a cow...
27Well you can feed more people with one cow's life than one dog's life.
Not that it's right that either should have to be sacrificed anymore.
4That same logic would apply to every animal chickens, pigs, sheep, most fish, etc. other than perhaps elk or bison.
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Yeah, but Western women don't go goo-goo-gah-gah over cows so dogs immediately matter more.
-8dogs life is worth no more or less than a pig or a cow...
Pigs and cows are quite different from dogs in a few ways. Dogs have been bred for various roles, like being our friends, helpers, or protectors, while pigs and cows have been raised mainly for food like meat.
Our relationship with dogs is often more personal—they're often our companions and part of the family. On the other hand, pigs and cows have traditionally been seen as animals we raise for food, so our connection with them is more about using them as a source of meat rather than companionship.
-11Pigs and cows are quite different from dogs in a few ways. Dogs have been bred for various roles, like being our friends, helpers, or protectors, while pigs and cows have been raised mainly for food like meat.
This view comes from people who have never had to consider how their meat gets on their table, and it's one of the reasons I have such a strong distaste for the modern factory farming culture.
I grew up in rural Asia before moving to Europe. We had to raise any meat we wanted to eat. Pigs, cows, chickens are no different than dogs in that they all unique beings that have their own distinct personalities, likes, dislikes, and even favourite people. Yes, we still ate them, but we treated them like living beings that were giving their lives for our sustenance and survival. They were treated with respect, and no part of them was wasted. This is really not a mentality you see in society nowadays.
I still eat meat, but I try to find small, local farmers and don't really eat meat when I eat out. I wish I could take care of my own livestock again, as they were truly our family's companions that were essential for our survival at the time. They were just as important to me as my cat and dog sitting at my feet currently. The commodification of these animal's lives as it relates to human profit is just a sad thought to me.
I know this is probably not a popular view, or maybe even a well thought out one. But it's mine.
8How does that make a moral difference? The dogs they're (were) eating were bred for meat just like pigs and cows.
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I don't understand why you would ban it in a country where it has been consumed traditionally. Is there a public health reason behind this?
11President Yoon is just trying to grab cheap optics wins, considering he's an overt fascist that has taken numerous Ls. Banning dog meat does very little, it was already pretty much an eradicated food staple and only harms the lowest classes who had to rely on the cheapest forms of meat to sustain themselves. Everyone who could afford better meat was already only eating it.
Functionally, there's no difference between a dog, a pig, or a cow, when it comes to life value. There isn't an economic or moral reason to just ban dog meat other than to make the fascist admin look better.
30More of a culture shift. And I think it was traditionally eaten in tight economic times, not because there was any significant meaning or quality in dog meat.
15The president has 6 dogs as pets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if they would ban horse too? They are domesticated, but are in many Korea cuisines.. nah probably not
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The government has promised to fully support dog meat farmers, butchers and restaurant owners, whose businesses will be forced to close, though the details of what compensation will be offered have yet to be worked through.
On Tuesday lunchtime in Seoul, down an alleyway with several dog meat restaurants, a handful of older people were tucking into the stew and the generational divide was stark.
Previous governments, dating back to the 1980s, have pledged to ban dog meat, but failed to make progress.
The current President Yoon Suk Yeol and the First Lady Kim Keon Hee are known animal lovers.
Jung Ah Chae, the executive director of the Humane Society in Korea, said she was surprised to see the ban in her lifetime.
One dog meat restaurant owner in her 60s, Mrs Kim, told the BBC she was frustrated by the ban, and blamed it on the rise in the number of people in South Korea having pets.
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1It looks like meat eaters might be the minority on this platform. I agree that technically there's no difference
in any animal meat trade (barring some details). Vegans got decent arguments for people who don't beleive that people should eat dogs but beleive in eating other animals. Their arguments aren't as good if you don't assign the same value to animals as you do to humans.-2Meat consumption contributes to the climate crisis and a lot of land is wasted on feeding farm animals. You don't have to care about animals to reduce or give up your meat consumption :shrug:
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