luckily Elwood's has you covered if you're in the Americas https://www.elwooddogmeat.com/
In oceania I have to go hunt roaming pet cats to get something reasonable to eat.
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I had my pitchfork at the ready when I clicked that link 😆
...but I get their point
What a joke, they don't actually have any dog gone meat.
Huh, must be sold out. Maybe panic over this ban?
It's delicious, I heavily recommend it
Ultimately a step in the right direction i suppose but there are a lot of animals that aren't dogs that also deserve not to be bred and slaughtered for their meat.
Ultimately a dogs life is worth no more or less than a pig or a cow...
Well you can feed more people with one cow's life than one dog's life.
Not that it's right that either should have to be sacrificed anymore.
That same logic would apply to every animal chickens, pigs, sheep, most fish, etc. other than perhaps elk or bison.
I don't understand why you would ban it in a country where it has been consumed traditionally. Is there a public health reason behind this?
President Yoon is just trying to grab cheap optics wins, considering he's an overt fascist that has taken numerous Ls. Banning dog meat does very little, it was already pretty much an eradicated food staple and only harms the lowest classes who had to rely on the cheapest forms of meat to sustain themselves. Everyone who could afford better meat was already only eating it.
Functionally, there's no difference between a dog, a pig, or a cow, when it comes to life value. There isn't an economic or moral reason to just ban dog meat other than to make the fascist admin look better.
More of a culture shift. And I think it was traditionally eaten in tight economic times, not because there was any significant meaning or quality in dog meat.
not because there was any significant meaning or quality in dog meat
it actually tastes pretty damn good, somewhere between lamb and pork, imho.
Can confirm, tastes good. This was in Papua New Guinea, the dog was donated to a function to be eaten because it kept killing people's chickens.
What's funny is some tribes will eat dog and not cat, others eat cat and not dog, and they both think the other is weird for their choice.
New level of dog and cat people just dropped.
Fair enough! Lol
I don't think I'd give up beef or pork to substitute dog in there.
I did like the point someone else brought up -- raising dogs for meat isn't economical in terms of the life cost.
Chickens, cows, and pigs can feed a lot more people per animal life than a dog can. (Female chickens produce eggs)
Even lamb -- they can produce wool and milk (... right? Lol).
Huh, sounds like what human tastes like too.
The president has 6 dogs as pets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if they would ban horse too? They are domesticated, but are in many Korea cuisines.. nah probably not
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The government has promised to fully support dog meat farmers, butchers and restaurant owners, whose businesses will be forced to close, though the details of what compensation will be offered have yet to be worked through.
On Tuesday lunchtime in Seoul, down an alleyway with several dog meat restaurants, a handful of older people were tucking into the stew and the generational divide was stark.
Previous governments, dating back to the 1980s, have pledged to ban dog meat, but failed to make progress.
The current President Yoon Suk Yeol and the First Lady Kim Keon Hee are known animal lovers.
Jung Ah Chae, the executive director of the Humane Society in Korea, said she was surprised to see the ban in her lifetime.
One dog meat restaurant owner in her 60s, Mrs Kim, told the BBC she was frustrated by the ban, and blamed it on the rise in the number of people in South Korea having pets.
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It looks like meat eaters might be the minority on this platform. I agree that technically there's no difference
in any animal meat trade (barring some details). Vegans got decent arguments for people who don't beleive that people should eat dogs but beleive in eating other animals. Their arguments aren't as good if you don't assign the same value to animals as you do to humans.
Meat consumption contributes to the climate crisis and a lot of land is wasted on feeding farm animals. You don't have to care about animals to reduce or give up your meat consumption :shrug:
I'm not sure how much I beleive it negatively affects the climate. I think fossil fuels have to be alot worse.
Here's a quick introduction to how meat massively contributes to climate change:
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-have-i-heard-eating-meat-bad-climate