Dog Market in South Korea

[Hyraxylos]

Well they do that because they're desperate and are willing to do so. Personally though I can't comprehend the idea of CATS used for sustenance... [NOTE: deliberate absurdity here] I mean, they don't even have any meat on them or anything; cats are pure fur! I've tried looking underneath all the fur on my cats and only found MORE fur! You'd have to be pretty starving to eat that stuff!
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[Rayadragon]

Depends on the cat. Ours have ranged from 6 lbs to 20 lbs in size, and I've seen plenty that are bigger.
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[starwing]

I didn't even want to watch the video. I can't believe people would want to do that to a domesticated animal that has been with us for 1000's of years.

[Rayadragon]

Again, as Ragnarok has pointed out cows are also domesticated, as well as pigs and chickens.
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[Dragoneyes]

Different cultures look at animals as food in different ways. I lived in the far east for 3 yrs. and they eat stuff that I could never eat. In the Philippines, they eat fertilized duck eggs, they also eat dogs and cats. I ate what I thought was barbeque beef on a stick but it turned out to be monkey. It didn't taste bad but I learned not to buy food from street vender's.
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[Solid]

This is a differnt culture, we can feel sad and want to change it, but this is one of reasons most people hate the USA. We stick are noses were we dont belong and try to interfer with other goverments. We may not like it but theres thing people else were dont like doing either, cows for one.

[QueenOfTheShadows]

You guys should consider that in some asian countries as well ans not so readily developed countries it is common to go to the market and buy your meat for the days meal, from a selection of likve animals who are A) killed as soon as the money changes hands, or b) by the buyer when they get home, this is done partialy to ensure fressness, but mostly because in places where you find markets like that lack refridgeration. and thus those practices ensure little chance of spoilage.

slaguhter of animals is probably cruel nomatter how it is done, and in korea those dogs are being sold as food.


Annother point Id like to make here in that what animals are and are not acceptaple for food and which are and are not considered pets is partialy cultural. In India cattle are not killed for food as they are considered sacred, and many people keep them as valuable pets. and in korea their buffalo and bulls are working animals, where as to us such animals are raisde for food. Consiquentily the recent issue that was in the news about a beef slaughter hows could possibly be viewed as being worse to them than it would be to animal rights people here.
we think of dogs as pets, but to them tohose dogs are food providers who produce meat, milk, and hides.

in any case slaghter of an ahimal for food or ofther reasons invaolves restraining the animal killing it (decapitation and causing extensive brein dammage re the most common ways still there are low and high tec ways of doing it..) draining it and then sometimes cleaning it.

in a fairly low tech enviroment such as many open air markets it's going to be slower.

just thought I'd point out the differenced in the cultural perspective.

{edit addition} I was looking through a book some itme ago that covered different slaughter method of livestok in one of its chapters, and actualy if done right rith the right tool electic shok can be almost instantanious. the tool punctures the animals brain cavity quicky and the shock is deliverd near instantaniously. pretty much fries the brains circutry. It is probably one or the least painful was of doing it when done correctly, as the brain does not actualy contain pain recptors. shooting strangulation or other means seem like thy could be much slower.

and I have to agree it looks like an animal rights grop's propaganda, or a westerner who finds the though of someone hurting a dog total appaling, making a stink about it.

Asia is interstring although there was rapid sudden industrilization Asian countries still do things pretty low tech. they dont have alot of room for farming, and having all thoes animals stuffed in a single cage together is not all that different than yould find in other parts of the world on industrial farms.
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