Sorry: dogs as food festival. Dating all the way back to 2009, Yulin's dog eating festival has become a flagship for dog-lovers to despise.
CNN describes it beautifully with this gem:
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Nice of CNN to get all moralistic. Especially when a "morally defunct society" would be one where monsters shoot people in a church because of their skin colour, yet USA has banned dog eating for some time.
I have yet to see any evidence that the dogs are treated worse than many animals are treated in practices which go on in western countries - live sheep exports, for example, or the abhorrent halal method of killing that we allow because it means we can sell meat to muslins.
No matter how the dogs are killed, it cannot be as barbaric as either battery hens or sow stalls, which consign the animals to an entire lifetime of torture rather than the few minutes dogs might suffer, yet few people buy free-range eggs and bacon. If dogs are treated humanely, I'd struggle to find a problem with the idea of eating them.
I could also mention fishing practices where fish are either drowned in nets or left to die in agony on longlines, neither of which is very humane, yet I don't see many people protesting those.
The health angle is reasonable, but we allow people to sell untreated breast and cow milk, which is just as likely to give you a fatal disease as dog, and is more of a health risk as far as I can see.
I have to say, some of the toasted dogs look pretty tasty.
CNN describes it beautifully with this gem:
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Such public slaughter risks creating an indifferent and morally defunct society. Beating and killing these struggling, crying dogs in full view of other terrified dogs showcases an industry that is devoid of humanity. |
Nice of CNN to get all moralistic. Especially when a "morally defunct society" would be one where monsters shoot people in a church because of their skin colour, yet USA has banned dog eating for some time.
I have yet to see any evidence that the dogs are treated worse than many animals are treated in practices which go on in western countries - live sheep exports, for example, or the abhorrent halal method of killing that we allow because it means we can sell meat to muslins.
No matter how the dogs are killed, it cannot be as barbaric as either battery hens or sow stalls, which consign the animals to an entire lifetime of torture rather than the few minutes dogs might suffer, yet few people buy free-range eggs and bacon. If dogs are treated humanely, I'd struggle to find a problem with the idea of eating them.
I could also mention fishing practices where fish are either drowned in nets or left to die in agony on longlines, neither of which is very humane, yet I don't see many people protesting those.
The health angle is reasonable, but we allow people to sell untreated breast and cow milk, which is just as likely to give you a fatal disease as dog, and is more of a health risk as far as I can see.
I have to say, some of the toasted dogs look pretty tasty.
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