>>>>What's worse - in Korea, where I'm sure you know they eat dogs, the method of dispatch is even worse to consider than the eating of them. I watched a docu on this the other night. Often they are hanged and beaten to death (there is a belief that the greater the suffering the tastier the meat). Now the dogs will initially take this in their stride as their master punishing them and it's quite pathetic that some will still be wagging their tails for mercy right up to the end. I was absolutely sickened by this.
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>>>Thanks for sharing ;-(
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>>Well, at least you're now aware of their plight. Someone had to initially draw the world's attention to the clubbing of bay seals, the horror of whaling, the tragedy of hunting elephant just for a few kilos of tooth enamel, the hunting of rhinos for the equivalent of compressed matted hair, the hunting of tiger for its penis, et al, et al.
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>>Further to the assertions that people get all gooey when animals are mistreated but not humans, last year I highlighted the plight of that poor Iranian girl who was executed essentially for having been raped by her uncle but didn't get a sarcastic response.
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>I'm not defending this practic, but not too long ago Korea was a very poor country. And when you have nothing to eat, anything that you can catch or yank out of the ground is food!
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>I agree that today this practice does not need to happen, certainly not the brutal, slow death of an animal.
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>The practice of eating dog is a fading practice in Korea as the older generation dies off.

Well the quicker they do the better afaic!

The thought of nothing to eat, as in the the seige of Stalingrad often makes me look at the pigeons in our park, and the seagulls nesting on our roofs, in a different way :-)