Please help: Stop killing dogs in South-Korea

I personally think there's a lot of bias toward the slaughterhouse vids; most of them are trying to prove a point, which inadvertently makes them show only the worst parts of whatever they are filming. I think some people need a reality check and realize that its a slaughterhouse: a farm for meat.

Slaughterhouses nowadays stun the cow before slaughtering it to make it more humane, and to make the process much easier. Of course, some cows don't get stunned the first time around, and if the farm needs to stun repeatedly, then I bet that's the only part that's going to make it on the film.

You have the power as a consumer to buy what you accept. If you want to spend twice as much money on "free range" or "organic" meat (which is not a regulated term by the FDA), then by all means you should.
 
Of course I don't agree with it, but is it any worse than the puppy mills we have here or the animals from the pound that are sold to laboratories? Yes, I worked in an animal control when I was a teen and that is what they did. It's all sick! People of other countires criticize us because we eat pork and pigs are also very intelligent animals and kept as pets.
 
Some cultures see dogs as we see cows and pigs... its just like with pets people tend not to see fish as living creatures.

We are criticizing them for killing dogs for meat when it happens in our own country daily for no real reason... of course we have the ASPCA for that but they can't stop it all.

Our own meat industry is no better, mind you... I advise you to watch this (dont worry it's not graphic): http://themeatrix.com

I'm not saying I support killing the dogs and I am in full support of the OP's cause, but I do think that there are other things to take into account here.
 
You know, I have been thinking about this. How many tens of thousands of dogs do we euthanize and then either dump or cremate. Imagine the hunger that could be wiped out if we would get off of our high horse, stop looking down our noses at "ewwww dog meat, how could you do that" and utilized the meat of all of these dogs. The fact is, that if it came down to it.....starvation or dog meat.....I would have to choose dog. I know many will say....not me, but have you ever been in the situation, where you had no choice. Yes now Korea imports alot, but there was a time in the not too distant past that they had no choice. So now, it is what they eat.
 
fowl (of many kinds), venison, deer, cattle (of many kinds), shell fish, fish, octopus, calamari, etc. are all good meat. if anyone ever told me i wasn't allowed to eat one because it was morally wrong they'd not like my response. i dare say it's absolutely my responsibility to realize that and "do unto others... as the saying goes".

i have:
run from headless chickens,
slumped through rooms full of slaughtered pigs and cows hanging and dripping,
watched a tiny monkey get his head cracked in and brain eaten while alive and locked in a table around his neck on a faces of death video
helped gut a dear
ripped the guts out of those same chickens
held down my buddies pot bellied pig (family pet at that point, but had babies) while he slit it's throat (makes the meat more tender from what i hear) then hung it by it's hind legs in the back yard for a thanksgiving dinner
roasted whole pigs in charcoal and sand as well as on a rotisserie
slaughtered turkeys and chickens
taken pets to the vet to have them put to sleep
among others

that doesn't make me a bad person. that makes me an omnivore.

also, i feel anyone who has an issue with the way food animals are treated should raise them themselves. an omnivore/carnivore could reduce the amount they depend on those that do unethical things (in their opinion obviously). vegetarians could also do with a wakeup call and realizing that if they really want these things to stop maybe raising some and selling them to people in the neighborhood could help as much or more than them protesting meat for life themselves. one person can easily change a lot more than one person can eat.

i do agree that that's just the tip of the iceberg and there are many things to consider as a whole. it's common sense imo though and some things i think are seldom considered. another point noone ever mentions alaskan sled dogs. imo, these guys are tortured and then made/trained/bred to work regardless.

if everyone in the world (within reason) donated a little space and effort to raising their own food a lot of this discussion would be nil.

sorry, but that's my point of view. not that it's not my responsibility what goes on over there, but that it is my responsibility as an adult not to interfere in someone else's business. considering reaching over/near my plate is punishable by death imo i have to reciprocate that respect i feel i deserve.
 
dundadundun said:
i have:
run from headless chickens,
slumped through rooms full of slaughtered pigs and cows hanging and dripping,
watched a tiny monkey get his head cracked in and brain eaten while alive and locked in a table around his neck on a faces of death video
helped gut a dear
ripped the guts out of those same chickens
held down my buddies pot bellied pig (family pet at that point, but had babies) while he slit it's throat (makes the meat more tender from what i hear) then hung it by it's hind legs in the back yard for a thanksgiving dinner
roasted whole pigs in charcoal and sand as well as on a rotisserie
slaughtered turkeys and chickens
taken pets to the vet to have them put to sleep
among others

that doesn't make me a bad person. that makes me an omnivore.
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ACtually, that makes you a carnivore. To be an omnivore you need to add

Ripped a poor unsuspecting carrot out of the ground
Held down a poor head of lettuce while my kid sister cut it again and again (it makes it easier to fit in your mouth, so I hear)
Oblitterated the protective skin on a helpless orange

:p
 
sumthin fishy said:
ACtually, that makes you a carnivore. To be an omnivore you need to add

Ripped a poor unsuspecting carrot out of the ground
Held down a poor head of lettuce while my kid sister cut it again and again (it makes it easier to fit in your mouth, so I hear)
Oblitterated the protective skin on a helpless orange

:p
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i drink juice. i assume other people do all that for me. i just can't bring myself to perpetuate such cruelty to produce. it's unethical and downright rude. :laugh:

i think :huh: that helps qualify my statement of my omnivorous nature though. i could be wrong. :duh:
 
dundadundun said:
i drink juice. i assume other people do all that for me. i just can't bring myself to perpetuate such cruelty to produce. it's unethical and downright rude. :laugh:

i think :huh: that helps qualify my statement of my omnivorous nature though. i could be wrong. :duh:
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what is juice but the blood of a plant?
 
I think I've had dog meat before, and it wasn't that bad. I like trying cultural foods and have eaten iguana, snake, capybara, etc.

You'd be surprised how many countries still eat dog on a regular basis. Even some native tribes in the US still eat dog. I am strongly against eating endangered species, but modern dogs were selectively bred by humans, in some cases for food. The only dog breed in danger of becoming extinct is the Xoloitzquitle, which was a food dog bred by the Mexica in Pre-Columbian Mexico. Otherwise, domesticated dogs are nowhere near becoming extinct by people eating them.
 
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