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Killing dogs for meat illegal, rules S. Korean court
| Care lawyer Kim Kyung-eun welcomed the ruling – made in April but with details only released this week – telling AFP: "It is very significant in that it is the first court decision that killing dogs for dog meat is illegal itself."
The Bucheon court decision sparked angry protests from dog farmers, whose premises usually double as slaughter houses as the government does not license abattoirs to kill dogs.
| "This is outrageous. We can't accept the ruling that killing of dogs for dog meat consumption amounts to killing animals on a whim," Cho Hwan-ro, a representative from an association of dog farms, said on YTN television.
There are some 17,000 dog farms across the country, Cho said, calling for the government to explicitly legalise dog meat consumption and license dog slaughter houses. "Otherwise, we'll fight to the end," he added.
| "Dogs for eating and dogs as pets must be separated," he said, adding they were different breeds, fed differently and raised for different purposes.
"Cows, pigs, chickens and ducks are all raised to be consumed and why not dogs?" he said.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/killing-dogs-meat-illegal-rules-s-korean-court-doc-16b8g72
| I'm just so scared of the posibility of sentitent animals I want to be a vegan, but at the same time there's no gaurantee like at all in either direction
| why is eating horse meat accepted but dog not, I say double standards
| Yaaaay. Eating dogs is basically cannibalism. I'm glad they're protected now.
| >>331005 animals are animals, people just like to pick favorites
i love both but i wouldn't have a problem eating dog or cat meat as long as it's prepared humanely (which, for the most part, it isn't)
| Anything is food in an emergency.
| >>331005 Dogs have been a critical part of human society for millenia. We have raised and bred them as our own, they have lived, slept, ate, and traveled with us since ancient times, and even to this day serve as important members of many people's families. Dogs understand humans in a way no other animal ever will.
That, and not just because they're cute, is why I liken eating dog meat to cannibalism.
| >>331479
Go to Ireland or Anatolia and you'll find out how deep the relationship between shepherds and their sheep goes. ;-)
Honestly: Farmers also had a tighter relationship to their animals. It just changed with industrialization, when animals (like humans and their labour) became abstracted and objectified as products.
| >>331479
>That, and not just because they're cute, is why I liken eating dog meat to cannibalism.
We live in a cannibalistic society after all. It's just a question of time it'll literally legalized for the sake of business. "Soylent green is people!"
| >>331479 alright but how does that exclude them from being eaten? they're animals, just like lambs, ducks, cows and pigs. we've been eating animals for centuries.
i love dogs but there's nothing inherently wrong with dog meat. no animal is more "sacred" than the next.
i wonder what your thoughts are on cat meat
| >>332146
Dogs eat trash, their diet makes them less suitible for human consumption. Their role has been as other than meat. Chinks need to raise regular livestock instead of farming dogs just to be edgy, they can keep their poop wine though.
| >>332896
>implying triggered
Its the fact its not even the right slur so how about leave the edginess as the door. No one is impressed and try to have legit discussion.
| >>332896
Also your post is fundamentally wrong. South Korea has other livestock. You assumed they don't and proceeded to use a slur. Makes you look like an edgy fuck that should fuck off to 4chins with the rest of the 2 brain cell losers
| >>332146 It's because they've been raised as allies, as opposed to livestock like cows who have always had a place in society as food. You can see the cultural place of dogs in the way people like tell stories of dogs saving people's lives, or tracking down killers, or whatev.
I think cats aren't as important as dogs in that they were mainly pest control but are still treated with some reverence. (i.e. ancient egypt, etc.) It doesn't seem as big of a deal, but still pretty icky.
| >>333132
We're talking about a species which kills their own members in amounts like no other (humans). Why should a species that kills each other for gods, leaders and/or nations have morale issues with eating dogs? They kill their brothers and sisters for more trivial reasons than having food.
| >>333167 We don't kill each other on a regular basis. Or have you never wondered why murder happens beyond Marxism? We feel attachment to things that give meaning to our lives. Our parents, friends and family and of course our pets are a precedent of that too.
Of course all animals aren't equal to an individual. My cat that's lived home for over 10 years died recently and I cried. It's called having a bond.
| >>333242
>We don't kill each other on a regular basis.
We do. You may live in a country without death penalty, but I'm sure that there is an army with sharp weapons and the "licence to kill". There also are for sure companies and estate instututions specialized for researching and producing tools to kill ppl.
>having a bond
So it's okay to eat dogs who are not your own pets and you have no personal relation too, like regular livestock?
E.g. I have no bond to my neighbors dog.
| >>331479 >>333132
>Dogs have been our companions for millennia
Yep, the Toltecs were breeding the ancestors of modern chihuahuas as livestock animals as far back as 2000 years ago.
| >>333829
People in the west believe they are the one and only true culture and that it always was like they know it.
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| Animal rights group Care last year filed complaints against a dog farm operator in Bucheon, accusing him of "killing animals without proper reasons" and violating building and hygiene regulations, and prosecutors later charged him.
He was convicted by the Bucheon City court, which ruled that meat consumption was not a legal reason to kill dogs, and fined three million won ($2,700). He waived his right to appeal.