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South Korea aims to ban dog meat consumption (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 92 points 7 months ago

I've never understood thy people are so obsessed telling others that they should not eat dog meat while mjnching on a burger with crispy bacon and chicken nuggets.

If a vegan does it then I get it, but you are not a better person because you arbitrarily chose not to eat some specific meat, but have no problem with cruelty when it comes to other species.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 77 points 7 months ago

I'm a vegan, but one argument specifically against allowing dog meat trade is that it often encourages stealing companion animals (aka pets) to make a quick buck. Sometimes they're held ransom and people have to pay the thieves to keep a member of their family from being killed and eaten. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Also, dogs were bred specifically to live alongside humans, to form bonds with us. To do that to any organism and then treat it like livestock is a special kind of monstrous.

So I'm in favor of drawing as many lines as possible when it comes to animal consumption of any kind. And then, if the situation makes you uncomfortable about some of the other lines you've drawn around cows, pigs, or chickens, then you analyzing those in more depth too is also a win in my book.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Nuanced take. 👍

[-] sederx@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sometimes they’re held ransom and people have to pay the thieves to keep a member of their family from being killed and eaten.

thats just blackmail it has nothing to do with commercializing dog meat... that stuff is already illegal

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

My point is that it happens more frequently in places where dog meat is frequently consumed.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 7 months ago

This is what I was talking about a vegan will have coherent arguments because they have been thinking about it.

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[-] Natha@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

It makes no sense to ban the consumption of dogs simply because you are afraid of dog thieves. Do you ban driving a car because some people steal a car?

Nothing in this world is completely beneficial, but you can't ban everything.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Stealing a car takes way more effort than kidnapping a pet. I'd also bet that people have way more personal attachment to pets than cars because pets are beings with emotions and cars are not.

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

No, but I did actually see a used bike store get shut down because too many stolen bikes were finding their way there. Sometimes to end a practice you have to go downstream and destroy the market for that thing. There’s no market for vehicular deaths - they just happen.

[-] Natha@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

But it still makes no sense to ban it nationwide or worldwide, or to forbid it by law.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If you banned driving cars, there just wouldn't be any cars around. That analogy has little to do with dogs. What is it about a ban that makes no sense to you?

[-] Natha@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

You can replace cars with anything else and it still makes no sense. It's no one else but the thieves who should take the consequences.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

We ban things we want less of. More eating dogs means a bigger market for all dog meat, which means a bigger market for theft. I want less of that.

People don't steal things that no one wants to buy.

I'm talking about the side effects of fostering a culture where eating a non-livestock animal is ok. My argument is that this kind of culture is pointlessly cruel to an animal that we've explicitly bred to be a companion.

One element of discouraging a culture is government action, a ban (coercion). I argue this is a necessary step in ending a cruel practice.

The other is cultural compliance (people behaving in a certain way regardless of the presence of law enforcement officials). I argue this is a necessary step as well, by way of education and improving access to alternatives.

[-] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The analogy would not be to ban driving cars, but ban the resale of cars. The incentive for theft is the value; if you remove the value, then there is less incentive to steal it.

So to answer this hypothetical question, should we ban the resale of cars? No, because the owner can be insured for the monetary value of their stolen vehicle. What is the monetary value of a pet? I don't believe this can be quantified.

[-] Natha@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

Many people like their cars just like the way you like your pets. They should be treated equally.

[-] poopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

This debate sure took an unexpected turn.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago

Yeah I personally wouldn't be comfortable eating dog meat but I do eat meat so I realise I have no moral high ground. In reality if you have a problem with this as a meat eater it should make you question your own choices if anything.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

When I asked a vegan about her choice she asked me if I would eat my pet. I must admit the biggest thought in my mind was that it wouldn’t taste good, so no. I’m not sure if I could raise a livestock animal and then eat it. Possibly, but probably not since they get slaughtered early in their lives. So I guess I’m a hypocrite just like most people, taking shelter in out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

It’s because most people don’t know a cow or chicken. If they did, things might be different. In fact I remember seeing Ira Glass speak and he recounted how he spent some time at a retreat where chickens roamed free, and after having the time and opportunity to observe that they think and feel and have different personalities, he became a vegetarian.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 7 months ago

I think you are probably right. For me it's kind of the opposite but still consistent. When I was a child we had many different animals and I had names for many of them including the sheep Bartek which me and my sister would ride often. In the end we would eat all those animals (but not the dogs or cats). So I've been friends with other animals than dogs, I'd even say they were better friends then the dogs I had because I have a hard time remembering the dogs names.

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[-] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Doubt it. people had chicken roaming free in their backyard for millennia and never had an issue. One bloke observing chicken free and turning vegetarian is hardly an explanation.

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[-] aidan@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Agreed, I was actually having a discussion where I mentioned certain parts of China and Korea eating dog- and a girl got mad at me saying it was a myth and I was being racist. 1. It's not a myth, I've seen it. 2. I wasn't condemning it, you're the one saying it's bad not me.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago

I'm not a dog person, but I gave a cat. The idea of cats being farmed and eaten isn't pleasant for me. I don't think that makes me morally superior to someone who eats cats, but it does mean I'd prefer it not happen anywhere near me.

[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Hypocrisy and racism.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Do you mean racism against cows or chickens?

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Aw dang. They should eat as much dog as they like.

As long as we're eating everything else, I don't see the point in drawing the line at dogs.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

I don't think this will affect this dog farm: https://www.elwooddogmeat.com/

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Dogs on Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat farm were bred for food.

Eating dogs is a personal choice.

Some people prefer the taste of dog.

Yeah ok, you convinced me. Go ahead and keep eating dog.

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, yes? Other than most people thinking of dogs as pets what's the moral difference between eating dog and eating cattle or poultry? It's pretty hypocritical to ban one and not the other.

And no, I'd never eat a dog. But I have eaten horse.

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

I'm glad there's no such ban in the US. Elwood's Organic Dog Meat is my favorite source of protein, I don't know how I'd survive without it

[-] capital@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

That’s all I eat!

Personally, I’m on an all dog meat diet. Science has proven it’s the healthiest diet.

[-] sederx@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago

cows,pigs and chickens : "am i joke to you"

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[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I hope my country follows suit. The law that banned dog and cat meat consumption was repealed in the early 2000s. Since then, the dog and cat meat trade has flourished. Pet dogs and cats are snatched from people's homes, and brought to slaughterhouses to be force fed, hosed down, and slaughtered. The neighborhood I grew up in has had so many dogs snatched. Every time I see people eating dog meat, it saddens me to think that it was someone's pet that they loved so so much, just to have it be killed in such a horrible way. And as a pet owner, it scares me, because it could've been my cat.

[-] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Which country is this?

[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Vietnam. If you want to learn more, this report seemed pretty good to me.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 7 months ago

I don't know about dog meat, but I only buy chicken from Gentle Farms, Because nobody knows chickens like chickens.™

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

why?

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