the people farming and eating dogs in Asia are still people, just people raised in a different culture. they aren’t barbaric inhuman monsters to gawk at. they aren’t to be pointed at to be like “hey those terrible Asians eat dogs! Doesn’t that disgust you?”
people get killed for eating beef in India. western ideas of what meat is acceptable are not universal.
I’d also like to point out like the main reason people started eating dogs is because it’s a commonly avalible meat in those regions
This reminds me of these damn things on change.org
They( as in american citizens, not the citizens of china where it takes place)are litterally calling a small meat festival “ barbaric” and “ devilish”. They are calling poor people barbaric.
Keep in mind this is a poverty stricken province where living conditions arent great and their main concern is the dogs and cats involved? Not the people? I love cats as much as the next person but they have to use “ barbaric” tools aka not guns to kill the animals for meat to celebrate the summer solstice. They prepare meat like any other hunter prepares a deer. This is the issue with applying western ideologies to eastern cultures. Over there, dogs and horses are commonly consumed but here they are pets.
We dont starve like they do. We dont live under that government. Stupid ass americans stop calling poor people of color in other countries barbaric for eating the available meat they have cause they arent as privilaged as you and your vegan diet are challenge
would like to point out that a vast majority of “meat dogs” that get imported by rescues to the US (and other western countries) are bullshit, lies, and a marketing scheme, and the US general public falls for it because they believe chinese & korean people are heartless savages who eat every dog they see:
think about it. do we eat every chicken, hog, cow, etc. we have here in the west? no, because some are meat breeds, some are milk/egg breeds, and some are purely ornamental. an ornamental chicken breed is not going to taste good.
dog meat is exactly the same. the nureongi, a medium-size yellow spitz-type dog that’s bred for meat, is the most frequently eaten dog in korea & china. they aren’t eating desirable dogs like purebred beagles, poodles, goldens, and designer mixes. and yet, what are 99% of these alleged “meat dogs” being imported?
you guessed it, desirable dogs. never any nureongi - only purebred & designer mix ”meat dogs” that rescues buy en-masse from chinese & korean puppy mills to sell back in the US. both the rescues & the east asian puppy mills make a huge profit off of the ignorance of US “animal lovers”.
also, hot take: even actual meat dogs don’t need “rescuing”. people have every right to eat whatever animal they please. do you ever see people flying in from india to come “rescue” our cattle? no? so why is this acceptable? after all, we - the west - are the reason these people are so poor that they have to eat carnivores like dogs and cats. and they’ve been that poor for SO LONG that they’ve had the time to develop meat breeds.
rescue has become less about being practical, and more about virtue signaling & saving dogs with the most marketable sob stories rather than the ones that are actually adoptable. unlearn animal rights propaganda and realize that rescues are perfectly capable of lying and being greedy.
I wish there was more unbiased info on the markets. Most of the pictures I can find are, to be honest, horrific. BUT they all come from these groups in the US and Europe trying to get it all shut down so its seriously suspect if the pictures and videos are even real.
IF the conditions are what is in those pictures, the markets should be urged to change how they treat the animals. We have laws that dictate how beef cattle can and can not be treated. If they are abused, the farms and processors can be shut down and their animals taken away because, despite being raised for consumption, its the moral thing to do.
BUT, taking these sites at face value is like taking those PETA-light websites about “cow abuse” at face value.
not to mention banning something is a piss poor way to stop it from happening. if raising dogs for meat becomes illegal chances are those that still want dog meat will go underground. they’ll have to hide their operations and the dogs will likely be kept in worse conditions because of it. if its legal we can push for better inspection/welfare laws.
personally i think its more ethical to raise healthy dogs for meat than breeding pet pugs who have to spend their whole lives struggling to breathe.
“rescue has become less about being practical, and more about virtue signaling & saving dogs with the most marketable sob stories rather than the ones that are actually adoptable.” OOP
