Taking dog off the menu

Actually, I've eaten dog prepared as a Korean dish. It wasn't bad. I'm not one of those people who's going to go around saying it's okay to get cows and pigs, but not dogs and cats. I grew up on a cattle ranch and early on I got used to the idea that livestock is meant to be eaten. So my first response to the article on China was that the Chinese are much nicer than the Americans. I don't remember America asking people to do anything to make visitors to the Olympics more comfortable when they came here. We complain about people not learning English before spending their money with us. So, personally, I think it's a shame the Chinese are trying so hard not to offend people. If I travel to the other side of the world to visit a place, I'd like to actually experience it's real culture, not a watered down, Westernized tourist-safe area designed to make me feel more comfortable. Then again, I'm from Louisiana, so I've eaten my share of frog legs, alligator, snake ...

Hello kaytee717, I think its disgusting I for one will never go to China and I have seen a documentary they eats cats as well, and the way they killed the cats are by boilling them alive. I cried for a long time and was so sick. Tamarafireheart.

The idea of eating dog disgusts me, but then, there are cultures where the idea of eating pigs is disgusting, or eating cows is outlandish. It's a matter of cultural differences. For the above poster, frogs have been a delicacy in North America (the US and Canada) for many, many years. Specifically ... their legs. I think they were wrong to change / modify their culture for the sake of offending outsiders. They have no reason or requirement to bow down and cater to visitors to their country. Do we take cow off the menu when other cultures visit? Never happen.

i think that this discussion will degenerate ... for this thing i hate chinese people ... when we will not have anything to eat then i will take a look at my dog .. but when you have other animals to eat, such as fish (and in china you can't tell that it isn't enough ..), cow, pigs etc. go ahead .. leave those pets to live their lifes, i think that a youtube link is useless, but i can say one think, search on youtube: ANIMAL MASACRE in CHINA. I have 17 but i cried :| i didn't imagine that this thing it's possible. And if you say that eating pets it'e enough, they beat them before they eventually kill thos animals. I wish that all the chinese people suffer, not because i think like a rasist, no, not at all .. but to suffer like those animals when they beat them. And for chinese people, think about, maybe ther it is a god, who saw all the things that you have done, and the earthquakes are not in relation with mother nature !

Before I make my point, I want to make it understood that I love dogs. I work in a veterinary clinic, and I love taking care of dogs and seeing them go home healthy. I have three dogs. I also love the cats that we have at work, because they're very sweet. I have one cat, a one-eyed little pirate of a cat, and I love him very much. Every night before I go to sleep, I find him and take him back to my room and he sleeps on my bed. I love animals. I also love living. To live, I have to eat. A lot of people say that they would never eat dogs or cats. I never have eaten a dog or a cat, and I hopefully never will have to, but I understand that other people do. Dogs and cats are in no way endangered, they are in fact flooding the local animal shelter as I type this, to the point where they have temporarily dropped the adoption fees because it is becoming overcrowded and they need to make room. We have access to pigs, and chicken, and cows. Imagine not being able to afford that, or not having that choice. Imagine being too overcrowded to really have enough farms to feed every single person. I have owned a pig before. I have given the pig a name, and I had watched it grow up from a piglet. I gave him away to someone when we ran out of room for him. If I became disgusted with everyone who ate a pig because I own/owned one, everyone would look at me like I was crazy. Some people own dairy cows outside of owning a business. I have known someone who owned a chicken, and she loved that chicken! What seems abnormal to us is normal in other cultures. In some of those cultures, people take what they can get, because they are not as lucky as some of us are. We find it disgusting because we treat these animals as part of the family. I do look at my dog, and I feel sad when I think that, if she was born in another country, she may have been born to a different fate. So, even though I understand that it is part of other cultures, do not think me a heartless person.

i know some vietnamese in our country the usa and they still eat cat. they consider it cheap meat. one girl told me when she lived in vietnam she had a pet cat and someone stole it and ate it. from them i've learned they know what it is like to have a pet, and they do. but they also think nothing about eating animals that we consider pets. i had a teacher who was in vietman as a soldier during the war there and they were starving so they go a puppy and fattened it up and ate it. he even showed us a picture of the puppy, which was a shock to me. i guess if you're hungry enough you don't know what you'd do. just like in other countries they eat horses.

You have to understand they ever country has its own culture and environment. So other countries eat dogs like in Korea, China, in the Philippines and even in Mexico. But they are still humans. There are countries that eat worms, bugs and other things and think about the meals people eat in Africa. We are so prone to the lifestyle of the U.S because we live in a country where of course dogs and cats are considered domestic pets. I love dogs and I have a pet pekingese, but it doesn't shock or concern me that other countries eat dogs. It be a different story though if people eat and sale human baby infants in the market or eat humans now that I can understand being sick and very disturbing. I have eaten dog once before in Mexico only one time in my life. I don't regret it because that's there way of living there and culture. So then its a foreign way of seeing the difference between people who view people eating dogs to be disturbing and others find it to be just a normal meal.

That really disgusts me!! Of course, with having 5 dogs as my pets you could understand that. I guess cultures are different in different ways but I still don't see how they can take a loving, beautiful dog and eat it. Ok I've had my sickening thought for the night.......... Char

I have heard of this too .Myself I could never eat anything that I looked at as my pet .I could never and I know it is not common at all here in the usa . Other places it is common and that is why its not such a big deal. My friend said in ghana they eat dogs too some people but he never could because he likes them too much . Gosh , I wonder what they would taste like . What is that famous line taste like chicken .

Hi kaytee, When I was young, I have tasted dog meat. Now, I love them as pets and never consider eating them.

If you were raised to eat a certain food then you would never think there is anything wrong with it. people eat bugs, pigs, and cows and I am sure in other places they would not. I do not understand why they would take it off the menu though? Are they ashamed? Do they think it is wrong? it is there country and they were awarded the games before so why change now? Are they trying to deceive people into thinking they are something that they are not?

Hmmm if I would be very angry because that dog killed the most beloved being by my maybe I'll do something "like" but not "as" that... -joking- I respect and appreciate very much the idea of taking it off the menu. But take also the cat off the menu!!!!

Yes, they do participate in that practice in China (as well as Vietnam); they also have an active trade in "faux" fur-- made from raccoon dog. The animal rights record in China is just as appalling, or more so, than the human rights' one.

Yes it is true that they eat dogs. Beleive it or not but a lot of people do. They just closed a china resturant down for serving dog and even horse. Yes I said Horse. We ate there a few times, but now everytime I think of having chineese I gag a little.

I have never eaten dog - that I'm aware of. They do say that many oriental restaurants are situated close to animal shelters for a reason.... I personally think that they should have left dog on the menu. It's their culture, not ours. We eat cow and not all people believe you should. I personally think it's better to live with other peoples diversities and learn from them than be shallow and narrowminded by forcing them to bend to our ways.