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Well there wouldn't be that many dogs if you didin't farm them in the first place.
stares angrily at dog breeders in the US
Exactly.
Wouldn't have guessed that it was Korean farmers who let the dogs out
Didn’t have it on my Bingo card either
Woo let the dogs out
Joo Young-bong, head of the Korea Dog Meat Farmers’ Association, said the group would release two million dogs in the capital – especially near significant governmental locations and outside the homes of politicians.
Okay. Now they can hold this dipshit personally responsible for every dog released. He could be financially ruined, spend years in prison, or possibly both.
Tip: if you’re going to threaten the government with what could be considered domestic terrorism, do it anonymously.
The farmers argued that banning the controversial dog meat from menus across the country would deprive them of their livelihoods.
All make this argument.
People have to decide if "livelihood" is the highest moral priority.
Signed: The Dark Brotherhood
They're going to ruin my family if I can't sell human meat! How can my company Larry's Long Pig survive this travesty!?
The ban would take effect in 2027. It seems the idea is that upon it's passing they would simply stop raising new dogs for meat.
I'm sure they can find some other way to be useful to society.
Always sad to see people trying to stifle progress so they can avoid adapting. That's not how work works, lol. You do what society deems useful, and then you get paid. If what you're doing is no longer making you money, then you have to find something else to do.
You work for society. Society doesn't work for you unless you're paying them.
Yes! Please! 2 million dogs getting a better fate anyway
I'm not pro dog meat, but I'm not convinced 2 million dogs either a) starving to death/ripping each other apart for food or b) getting gunned down by the police and scooped into trailers with loader shovels is necessarily a better fate.
Those dogs look so sad :(
I can't imagine eating a dog.
How is it different from eating any other animal? And I don't mean that like it's ok to eat dogs, but that you should feel the same about any other animals.
Because humans have had dogs as companions for millenia? Yeah I get that as a civilized society we should probably be working toward respecting all species of animals but every time I see this 'how is it different than eating any other animal" argument, I cringe. Because cats and dogs in particular have been domesticated companions of humans for thousands of years. So we see them differently than animals we don't have that relationship with...
Humanity has coexisted with cows as well, but we still eat them. Its part of the same reason why cows are revered as holy in India.
There are likely many who look at beef eaters as general westerners look at dog eaters.
Yes, but have you ever tried letting a cow curl up on your sofa/training it to use a litter tray in the spare room?
There are legitamately cultures who live with a cow in their homes as they provide a natural way to warm up the house.
Another perspective to look at how domesticated the animal is. A cow, alone will barely survive in the wild. A dog has a higher chance of survival. Does it mean that the Cow is more domesticated than the dog? Cows dont compete with humans on food, help till land, provide manure for crops.
Because
People make a distinction between pets and cattle.
This is not the newstory I expected to read today
Eating a dog is no different than eating a cow. Meat is meat. If the cow farmers in the US decided to unleash their herds in a populated place it would also be a bad time...
It’s carnivore meat.
Meat is the opposite of fish.
You want herbivore meat but carnivore fish.
Umm.....what???
Taste wise.
You want to eat fish that eat smaller fish or animals, not scavengers.
With land animals you want to avoid carnivores, especially the livers or you can die from vitamin A poisoning.
Omnivores can go either way depending on diet.
Your first post didn't make any sense to me, either, until you explained it, and now it makes sense, although I'd recommend clarifying as "land animal meat is the opposite goal of fish meat" or something like that.
But yeah, I'd never thought about it that way. Interesting.
It's a shame he's wrong though because dogs are omnivores.
Cats are carnivores.
Dogs are omnivores. You can have vegan dogs.
Yeah… dogs are omnivorous the same way deer are
Damn, they're gonna turn Turkey into Istanbul.
What about Constantinople?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Eating dog meat cannot be a crime like trafficking drugs or prostitution,” Mr Joo told a radio news talk show, according to South China Morning Post.
About a week ago, when the South Korean government announced its plan to introduce a ban on dog meat, animal rights organisations celebrated the move across the world.
“With so many dogs needlessly suffering for a meat that hardly anyone eats, the government’s bill delivers a bold plan that must now urgently be passed by the assembly so that a legislative ban can be agreed as soon as possible to help South Korea close this miserable chapter in our history and embrace a dog-friendly future,” JungAh Chae, executive director of Humane Society International, said in a statement.
South Korea’s ruling conservative People Power Party has put forth a bill suggesting a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment or fines of 50 million won ($38,000; £30,333) for individuals engaging in the dog meat trade.
The liberal Democratic Party of Korea’s bill recommends three-year jail sentences and fines reaching up to 30 million won.
“If I have to close down, with the financial condition I’m in, there really is no answer to what I can do,” Lee Kyeong-sig, who runs a farm outside Seoul raising up to 1,100 dogs, told Reuters.
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