Chinese city proposes to ban residents from eating dogs

[CorvusCorax]

My dad worked in slaughterhouses for years and intensive broiler houses when he was much younger and his father farmed pigs. Whilst I am not in any way condoning or excusing what some people do to some animals in China, none of the business of killing animals for food is especially pleasant.

 

[Clodagh]

My dad worked in slaughterhouses for years and intensive broiler houses when he was much younger and his father farmed pigs. Whilst I am not in any way condoning or excusing what some people do to some animals in China, none of the business of killing animals for food is especially pleasant.

But we do have legislation in place to prevent wanton torture, ok sometimes it fails but in general it works.

 

[Clodagh]

Even halal slaughter is quicker than what these dogs go through.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Yep and enforcing legislation was part of his job. In his view, a skilled halal slaughterman could do the job as humanely as the conventional method, but I appreciate that's not likely to be a popular view.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Yep, and I hope no one would call the UK or Irish cruel 'as a race/culture'.

Well they might if the UK and Irish happened to boil lobsters alive.

 

[Brownmare]

This is true, the article I read today was quoting various sources supporting the idea that most young Chinese people see dogs as pets and don't agree with animal torture. I don't know much about China but from what I read and from speaking to Chinese students it seems that there is a huge gulf between younger, educated, city dwellers and the people who support these kind of "traditional" practices. Obviously that's a very sweeping statement but you probably get the gist. It does make me hopeful that practices like this will eventually (hopefully soon) become confined to a minority. That's without even starting on all the other "issues" on which young educated Chinese people wish to see change.

My SIL is Chinese and would never dream of eating a dog or any animal that had been tortured, she was vegetarian for a while too until she got pregnant. In fact, she and my brother paid a fortune to bring their 2 cats with them when they moved back to the UK because they couldn't take the risk of rehoming them to the wrong person. From what she has said to me, most if not all of her Chinese friends feel the same...