“We believe this ban marks a significant turning point in South Korea’s attitude to animal protection,” said Lee Sang-kyung, a spokesperson for the local branch of the Humane Society International, an animal rights group. “(This) is testament to the passion and determination of our animal-loving public and politicians who reached a tipping point to consign this outdated industry to our history books.”
This doesn’t look like it will do anything for “animals” as people will just eat other animal meat. It just appeases western sensibilities about what the world is allowed to eat.
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Without knowing, I suppose it depends on whether the dog meat industry specifically had poor standards.
If for some reason it did (like it was unregulated or something), and this ban is actually enforced, then I suppose this would improve things.
I do acknowledge that I know nothing on the subject though.
Stock up before it’s too late: https://www.elwooddogmeat.com/
I’m assuming that the down voters of this comment didn’t visit the site.
Or they’re just bitter
chickens are intelligent
They had me convinced until that point. Clearly they’ve never raised chickens.
I don’t understand I want to order some dog meat? What kind of scam is this.
I love how if you click “I get it now” they assume you now don’t want any animal killed instead of you having rationalised that proper dog meat is okay to consume.
The reason they are generally banning dog meat is not really because it’s a dog, but because it’s linked with animal theft iirc. I don’t know anything so if this is wrong I’m wrong lmao.
There is one specific breed of dog kept for meat and no one has them as pets. They’re basically cattle.
But where can I actually get some dog meat to eat? Gotta at least taste it to see if it’s nice.
The loony left is taking away our dog burgers! I will not eat the bugs!!!
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Only poors? Weird. In my country it’s acceptable for a president to eat dog.
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Eat it. Eat the bug!
Bring on the rat burger. (No salt.)
I still think it’s wild that people argue about what pet it is ok to eat. I mean, I didn’t really quit meat to this day and I don’t really care what animal it’s from. I care whether it was sourced ethically, at least up to my standards. I mostly refuse meat because of the horrible impact on the climate and because I can’t / don’t want to afford ethically sourced meat all too often.
I think it’s wild that people can’t differentiate between pets and livestock. It doesn’t require a lot of emotional maturity and yet people conflate the two constantly.
I dont see any reason why you cant raise some livestock as pets. People already keep pigs as pets.
You can pick a specific animal and raise it as a pet, and in that case you wouldn’t eat it. That’s always been a thing even before animal husbandry was attempted by humans. I’m kind of surprised you didn’t know this.
I meant that there is nothing inherent to dogs that makes them pets and not for eating, while livestock are for eating. They are both just animals, people should be consistent in either having empathy for all such animals or not at all.
I don’t like dogs, does that mean I can eat them?
You can eat dogs even if you do like them, why wouldn’t you be able to?
Actually, the impact on climate is very very little. If the whole US would go vegan it would only decrease the total carbon emissions of the US by a little over 2%, the methane emissions would stay the same.
I haven’t quit meat, in fact I love it, but I will never support ethically bad living conditions for the animals. I only buy buy meat from animals that live free roaming with access to stables, even though it’s expensive where I live (about $ 20 per pound of cutlet)
The Time is Now, Dog Meat! Free Korea!
c/aneurysmprotesting
Good. Now do the other meats as well.
Plants feel pain and communicate with each other.
Ive see an African pour gasoline on a dog to burn its hair before cooking it… not sure they had any other meal options
