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[Cynical Ninja]

White Puds guide to dogs and cats in China.

Prepare to hurl, cry and shake you fist towards the East.

No pictures, just the facts about "fragrant meat".

[ramseycat]

We WERE going to have chinese food for dinner.....

[IMaDick]

White Puds guide to dogs and cats in China.

Prepare to hurl, cry and shake you fist towards the East.

No pictures, just the facts about "fragrant meat".

start with unfucking your spelling and grammar bitch boy.

[Duchess]

Thanks for the heads up, I won't be back.

[sally]

We WERE going to have chinese food for dinner.....

Avoid any chicken, beef or pork dishes. Stick with tofu or shrimp and you should be fine.

[BlueTiki]

We WERE going to have chinese food for dinner.....

Avoid any chicken, beef or pork dishes. Stick with tofu or shrimp and you should be fine.

Or go behind the selected restaurant and observe if there is an absence of birds in trees or on electrical wires. No birds . . . choose another place.

And if you hear " Heeel kitty, kitty, kitty . . ." lun rike hair!

[thekid65]

I've often wondered if several bowls of mystery meat were set out in front of a person to sample, and if the mystery meat was dog/cat/horse/rat...and the like..whether the person would find any of it tasty if not knowing what it was. Or better yet, if someone was fed cat, and was told it was something else, if the mind over matter shit would come into play.

[Cynical Ninja]

Cat Meat is mainly found in Guangdong province, most places in China view cats as pets and not food, but in Guangdong cats are treated as farmed meat not pets.

Some believe that cat meat can make hair grow back and increase a womans fertility.

Cat meat restaurants who serve only cat meat are commonplace easily recognisable because of the dozens of caged cats on display outside restaurants. The cats are kept in cages so small and cramped they have trouble breathing and can barely move.

The cats are dispatched by being clubbed semi conscious and then thrown into pots of boiling water still alive.

[Lady Cop]

that's horrible. i understand cultural differences, but not cruelty.

[thekid65]

Cat Meat is mainly found in Guangdong province, most places in China view cats as pets and not food, but in Guangdong cats are treated as farmed meat not pets.

Some believe that cat meat can make hair grow back and increase a womans fertility.

Cat meat restaurants who serve only cat meat are commonplace easily recognisable because of the dozens of caged cats on display outside restaurants. The cats are kept in cages so small and cramped they have trouble breathing and can barely move.

The cats are dispatched by being clubbed semi conscious and then thrown into pots of boiling water still alive.

Yeah, watched a vid of that once...wasnt too pleasant. Shit, they were skinning the fucking thing while it was still moving. And I don't even care for cats that much!

It all gets down to what you're used to, I suppose. I'm sure a lot of Americans wouldnt care to see how the cattle and chickens and pigs are dispatched prior to being served on our dinner plates...but when it comes to something that most of us think of as pets, it makes it much worse.

[Maggot]

I like hot dogs, but they cannot have meat by-products in them. No no sawdust.......na-na na na hey hey hey goodbye.......... Tell me about the Chinese sausage.

[ramseycat]

This girl I used to work with had a poster in her office that was a pic of a plate with chop sticks on it. Also, on the plate was a broken fortune cookie and the saying was "that wasn't chicken."

[Lady Cop]

photo: A Chinese animal lover consoles a dog after a convoy of trucks carrying some 500 dogs to be sold as meat, were stopped along a highway in Beijing on early April 17, 2011, and the dogs were later rescued to the China Animal Protection Association. There were about 58 million pet dogs in 20 major Chinese cities at the end of 2009 and the figure is rising about 30 percent each year, according to a survey, as pet owners in China spend an estimated two billion USD a year on their animals.
June 30^th, 2011

What's wrong with eating dog meat?

By Emily Lodish, Global Post

Barbecued dog and steamed paws?

These and so much more were to be had at this weekend's dog meat festival near Seoul.

Alas, it was not to be.

Animal rights activists put up such a stink that the organizers, from the Korea Dog Farmers' Association, said there was no way they could go through with the event.

"We couldn't possibly go on with the plan due to endless phone calls of complaint ... now there are few willing to rent us a place for the event," Ann Yong-Geun, a professor of nutrition at Chung Cheong University and an advisor to the association, told AFP.

Organizers of the festival had wanted to showcase the positive side of the dog meat industry in South Korea, where there are about 600 farms that raise dogs for meat, according to Ann.

Dog soup, or Boshintang, is a summer delicacy in South Korea, though the Wall Street Journal reports that it isn't as popular as the media would make it seem.

A minority of people eat it regularly. It’s consumed most frequently in summer but is available year-round. And it’s more popular with men than women and is said to possess qualities that "help stamina."

They were, for example, going to show videos of farms raising dogs under sanitary conditions — something, they will tell you, that would become a more ubiquitous practice were the industry legalized and regulated.

But for many activists, the humane treatment of the dogs is beside the point. To them, dogs are companions not a main course, end of story.

The irony is that in South Korea, that wasn't really true until more recently. And even now, it's really only true in the city, where they raise "pet dogs," as opposed to "meat dogs."

As William Saletan wrote in Slate a few years back:

In the country, they raise "meat dogs," also known as "junk dogs" and "lower-grade" dogs. But you don't become a "lower-grade" dog by flunking an IQ test. You're just born in the wrong place. Then you're slaughtered and fed to a man who thinks he's humane because he pampers a Golden Retriever that has half your brains.

So, what's really wrong with eating dog? Just because we don't do it in the U.S. doesn't seem to make for a very good argument.

[BlueTiki]

Are dogs graded, like cattle, for meat?

Ranching is in my blood. Primarily Angus.

Does anyone know what breed is considered having the best dog meat? I mean Blue-Ribbon quality, fall-off-the-bone tender and well marbled! Is it graded, like beef: Prime, Choice, Select . . . ?

And then there's the aging question . . . wet or dry?

[crash]

Well, wet dawg is just wrong on so many levels...