CNN: What's wrong with eating dog meat?

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It's true

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/jean-fee-dead-dies-cow-attack_n_880327.html?ncid=txtlnkushuff00000003

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A follow-up:

Can eating dogs be done humanely?

A few weeks ago, a canceled dog meat festival in South Korea prompted this Rice Bowl blogger to ask: What's really wrong with eating dog?

A few things, turns out.

Animals Asia Foundation, an animal welfare group based in Asia, chimed in via email with a response.

In comments attributed to founder and CEO Dr. Jill Robinson, the group focused on how cruelly dogs are treated before they are slaughtered, as well as how inhumanely the slaughter itself is carried out.

Here is what Dr. Robinson had to say:

(1) Dogs are carnivores and are inherently different in temperament to most domestic livestock species that are more commonly raised for food. As pack animals, hierarchy is important. The dogs are crammed into cages to be transported to the markets, which leads to aggression and fighting. Equipped with efficient canine teeth — carnivore attacking carnivore — they are seen tearing into each other, inflicting horrific wounds.

(2) In many cases, dogs are bludgeoned to death slowly. They are given a blow across the muzzle, using an instrument resembling a baseball bat. The blow is not hard enough to render the animals unconscious for long — they regain consciousness within seconds, and try to get up, sliding around in the blood and crashing into other dogs also flailing around. At this point they are howling pitifully in pain and confusion, with blood and mucus pouring from their nose and mouth — only to be bludgeoned again and again.

There is no defense for the cruelty to animals, in my opinion. Everything outlined above I find abhorrent.

But, to me, these arguments fail to address the crux of the issue.

An in-depth look at the Dog Meat Mafia

The question is not what is wrong with beating the bejesus out of a dog. I wouldn't condone that sort of behavior as it related to any senient being, be it a dog or a goldfish or a person. The question is what is wrong with eating the meat of dog.

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