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  • #16
    Well eating dogs is the same as eating all other animals. What else? Petty much as eating humans too, but humans are our own species so we can visualise that much better, and that is now rejected across most cultures, even though it was present in some of them until recently.

    No reason to shun the culture, but a good point to think what do we do when we eat something that was alive a few days before. Actually when you think of it all that mass production of animals is horrible. killing a wild animal and eating it has some honor, or at least the animal lived while it did, but mass producing chicken and other animals in the cages filling them with antibiotics to grow faster - well that is degrading.

    Ah well maybe one day I stop eating all that, if the force grows strong with me
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    • #17
      Over half the Korean population has eaten dog and about 40% have it regularly according to reports I saw. They breed dogs for eating and have dog restaurants. Nobody In Korea sees a big problem with it. In fact they were going to promote dog eating as a toruist attraction at the World Cup until someone explained to them what much of the rest of the world thinks about it.

      Dogs are eaten in many Asian countries. The Chinese eat just about anything. I've eaten fried locusts - they go very well with beer - sea slugs, bird's nests, you name it.

      In Thailand there is a province which is well known for dog eating and if you come from that province people always bring it up and make jokes about it.

      Dog eating is nothing compared to say eating the brain of a live monkey, which can be sampled at restaurants in Southern Thailand/Northern Malaysia.
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      • #18
        i agree, it is sickening...i have a lot of friends who are vegans, a lot of what they say makes sense, but I don't ignore the fact that animals are meant to eat other animals that are lower on the food chain...the way in which we mass produce animals also provides more food for more humans...so it seems like a vicious cycle...
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        • #19
          Eating the brain of a live monkey

          What is that a Hannibal Lecter eXPerience park?
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          • #20
            no, that's a real thing too...
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            • #21
              Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
              Eating the brain of a live monkey

              What is that a Hannibal Lecter eXPerience park?
              No just a Chinese restaurant - most of the ghoulish stuff is because Chinese, who are spread all over East Asia believe the dish has an aphrodisiac effect. In this case they are probably trying to get the spirit of Hanuman, the monkey king in the Ramayana into their body- a very virile character - and hence the monkey must still be alive. Chinese are weird about food.
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              • #22
                Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


                No just a Chinese restaurant - most of the ghoulish stuff is because Chinese, who are spread all over East Asia believe the dish has an aphrodisiac effect. In this case they are probably trying to get the spirit of Hanuman, the monkey king in the Ramayana into their body- a very virile character - and hence the monkey must still be alive. Chinese are weird about food.
                And I thought that they have bad food here in UK

                Ha who knows what kind of super adrenalin is concentrated in monekey's brain while they eat it ALIVE so this might be giving them some super special kick. Good that you don't get addicted
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                • #23
                  i thought you were a croat?
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by orange
                    i thought you were a croat?
                    That doesn't preclude him living in the UK.
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                    • #25
                      Both are true

                      A Croat on a extended stay in the UK...
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave

                        Ha who knows what kind of super adrenalin is concentrated in monekey's brain while they eat it ALIVE so this might be giving them some super special kick. Good that you don't get addicted
                        Oh I haven't eaten it myself.

                        What they do is they serve the monkey at a table with a hole in the middle. The monkey is strapped under the table with the top of its skull poking through the top. Then the monkey's skull cap is sliced off and the diners dig in. The monkey dies of course so they devour the monkey brain as fast as they can.
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                        • #27
                          I thought UK had a strict no croat policy?

                          kidding of course
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                          • #28
                            I would eat it (dog). Hell, considering the hormones and crap they stuff into cows and chickens in the West, it's probably better for you, anyway. I didn't get a clear picture from the article what it exactly tastes like, though.
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                            • #29
                              I thought UK had a strict no croat policy?

                              kidding of course
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by orange
                                I thought UK had a strict no croat policy?
                                It may explain why half of Croats in the world are living down here in Australia

                                Nice people though
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