Susa
Posted : 6/14/2006 8:37:38 PM
Yes, they do eat dogs in Korea. I am Korean though I live in Germany.
It´s interesting, everyone here immediately cries out when it comes to such a topic, that it is so cruel eating cats and dogs and in this forum the understanding for such behaviour is much bigger. I´m usually accustomed to defend those traditions but here I have to take a stand for the other side.
I don`t condemn eating whatever animal though I don`t understand how people can eat such beautiful creatures as dogs but I do condemn the way how they get slaughtered, how they have to "live", better to "exist" before they get killed at last.
But I think it`s the wrong way not to go to such countries because that doesn`t make it better, it just punishes those people who try to make a living out of tourism, poor people who really need the money to exist.
And avoiding such countries is impossible because the laws for protecting animals are not stringent enough in any country.
I´m glad that Germany has laws that come at least close to a "humane" way of treating animals, that chicken, cows, pigs, etc. are to be held in an appropriate way to the species. But those laws still don`t go far enough.