• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    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…

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      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.

    • McDonald's 🦈🐬🐟🐧@lemmus.org
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      10 months ago

      dogs life is worth no more or less than a pig or a cow…

      Pigs and cows are quite different from dogs in a few ways. Dogs have been bred for various roles, like being our friends, helpers, or protectors, while pigs and cows have been raised mainly for food like meat.

      Biologically, dogs have different diets; they can eat meat or plants, while pigs and cows mostly eat plants. Also, our relationship with dogs is often more personal—they’re often our companions and part of the family. On the other hand, pigs and cows have traditionally been seen as animals we raise for food, so our connection with them is more about using them as a source of meat rather than companionship.

  • FishFace@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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?

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        not because there was any significant meaning or quality in dog meat

        it actually tastes pretty damn good, somewhere between lamb and pork, imho.

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          10 months ago

          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.

    • Jin@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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

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    10 months ago

    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.

    • reev@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      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:

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    10 months ago

    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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