Koreans who eat dog meat also think it’s a delicacy and it’s traditional culture which westerners can’t say anything about.
I don’t think it’s a culture, dog meat is only a bad habit from the old days which has to stop. You talk about horse’s meat. I think horse meat, whale meat and dog meat all should stop. We don’t have to compete among each other which food is the most horrible. The point is whether Korea or USA or France, if it’s a horrible eating then we should stop eating.
Dog meat is not a Korean traditional culture. Culture should be something you can find only in one country. But dog meat started in China and we just copied it.
Korean’s origin is horse-riding people. Same horse -riding people such as Turkish, Mongolian and Japanese. They don’t eat dog meat.
Around the time dog meat started to be introduced, the Buddhist banned dog meat. Also people thought dog meat would bring bad luck to people especially to women, and it couldn’t go on the Jesa ( memorial ceremony for ancestors) . If it was a real delicacy why ancestors didn’t allow dog meat on their memorial day?
This dog meat was eaten more when we were very poor . While we had no food to eat, but still they didn’t eat their own doggies and they thought it `s a shame to eat dogs. I remember people usually went to the corner of riverside or mountain. They were not proud of killing dogs.
Now, Korea is not a poor country , they have lots of food to eat and enjoy life.
Why they still have to eat our best friend animals? It’s because some people think it `s good as viagra and good for protecting the body at hot summer days.
And who decided which are the eatable dogs? Dogs are all same. Just same as Humans are all same .
The eatable dogs are Korea’s traditional yellow dogs. They used to be Korean’s best friends. The protection of culture should be letting them live with Koreans and not raise them for eating.
If you see the poor dogs eyes waiting for death, you can’t say it’s a delicacy. It’s only animal cruelty. |