28 Replies to “This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society”
I lived in Southern China for a year in an area where dogmeat was a relatively common food. It came from a specific breed that easily weighed 20 pounds or more. I heard of people eating foreign breeds, but never saw it, as they would have been prohibitively expensive.
There are places where rich idiots eat weird things like tarantulas and scorpions. Are there enough rich idiots out there to turn raw Lhasa Apso into a delicacy?
Ummm…dumb question here. How much did it cost to fly them across the ocean? And how much care could that sum have afforded if they were kept in their home country?
I am waiting for the Government of India, or some George Soros funded group from India, to raid one of our feedlots and take the cattle home to roam the streets and slowing starve all because they were being kept in overcrowded pens and being fattened up to be EATEN!!!
Here’s an idea for these PETA culture-blockers … try the same stunt in NORTH Korea … where the STARVING prison-population of THAT failed Communist-Fascist might RESIST your actions. Might object to you removing their next MEAL from the table. They might RESIST with more than cans of pepper spray.
Dang it you took the words right out of my mouth…. or off my fingertips. Dogs are food some places, big deal, high strung, holier then thou folks have got to get off their high horse ( another meat) and just deal…..
The HSUS has a budget of (131 million dollars,) funded mostly through donations.
So Forty Six dogs probably cost $5,000 dollars apiece. $230,000 thousand dollars.
That would give them First Class Seats, Manicures, Movies, and a Beverage of their choice.
No-brainer prediction: thanks to soft-headed North American idiots, S. Korea will be the world’s biggest puppy mill.
And now 46 dogs that were already in shelters here have just had their chances for adoption further diminished. How many dogs may get sick or die when they come in contact with diseases brought by these rescued pets. Georgia and NJ are experiencing a parvo outbreak traced back to dogs brought from Puerto Rico. Nothing humane or ethical about bringing these dogs here.
At the seven farms from which the Humane Society rescued more than 800 dogs since 2015, those to be slaughtered included both mixed breed dogs and purebred ones – from a Chihuahua and a Maltese to various spaniels and a Saint Bernard.
I’m calling bullshit. Saint Bernards are way to gristley for human consumption. A nice succulent Labrador, that’s the ticket.
They were fed just barely enough to get by? Then they weren’t being raised for food. Duh. They’re most likely collected and held like that in hopes that some brain-dead PETA nutbars will show up and pay them big bucks to “rescue” them.
Yes, the people in Guangdong province (of which Guangzhou, nee Canton is the capitol) have a saying, they’ll eat anything with four legs except tables and chairs. Not only are the dogs of a special breed, but raised to be meat, no different than pigs, sheep, or cattle. Another reason not to eat other breeds is they might taste different.
The aversion to eating dogs is a Western prejudice, having raised dogs to a level almost equivalent to human. (Full disclosure: though I could logically write the previous paragraph, I still suffer the same prejudice.) PETA is engaging in neo-colonialism, by trying to impose its values on a sovereign country. (Not by buying, presumably, the dogs, but by trying to put dog farms out of business altogether.) Not that it will recognize that fact. The British Colonial government in Hong Kong did indeed impose its values, by banning eating dogs.
There is an interesting story, maybe some forty years back, concerning one episode of dog eating in the U.S. The San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles is heavily populated by Asians, and the U.S. decided to settle some of the Hmong refugees there. (The Hmongs are mountain people in Vietnam who fought against the Communists, and had to flee the country before the collapse of South Vietnam.) The city they were resettled in had a severe problem with feral dogs who had run in packs. The city spent a lot of money and time but could not solve the problem. Unlike the other occupants, however, the Hmongs were overjoyed with being able to hunt those dogs for food. And in short time, they hunted the dogs to almost extinction. So what did the city do?
You would think it should be grateful that someone was solving the feral dog problem for them, and left alone would have completely solved it in no time. But no. It couldn’t stand the idea of someone actually eating dogs, even feral dogs the city hoped to catch and gas. So it passed a city ordinance making it a crime to eat dogs.
With starving people in this world we spent how much on these dogs…how stupid! There are cannibals in this world why don’t you save these people…just a thought! If you are starving you will eat anything maggots even look good get my drift!
I lived in Seoul for a couple of years, and there learned a bit about the practice of dog meat consumption. I can’t say I’m against the consumption of dog, or most any other critter (yes, there are a few exceptions), but I do believe that the animals should be treated in a way that is reasonably humane. For dogs in Korea, the practice is particularly brutal, especially the final “processing” for consumption. I won’t describe it, but Koreans believe that the quality of the meat is greatly improved if the animal is slaughtered in a way that is slow, painful, and brutal.
That having been said, the practice of ransoming dogs to become rescue animals is purely counterproductive. All it will do is encourage breeders to increase their production, to sell more mistreated animals at premium prices, while continuing their existing production of animals for the meat market. If anyone believes otherwise, they completely misunderstand basic human nature.
People catching and eating feral dogs is as much of a public health problem as people catching and eating feral rats.
True. And the little breeds are great for appetizers!
oriental tastes are puzzling at times. google ‘birds nest soup’ for instance. really odd what they consider gourmet fair. Ive seen feral dogs in China. they all look the same, about the size of a pitbull, short hair naturally, not particularly ugly or attractive; built for life on the street.
If I was travelling in Korea and someone had dog on the menu. I’d try it.
Thanks for the best comment of the lot. Dogs in shelters all over N.America are put-down because nobody wants them. Meanwhile stupid do-gooders make the problem worse by importing diseased dogs from Asia. It’s unfortunate that this misguided practice can’t be stopped.
A blind man walks in to a department store with his seeing eye dog on a leash.
The store manager behind the customer service counter looks up, notices the customer is blind, and quickly looks away again.
Out of the corner of his eye he sees the blind man start swinging the dog over his head with its leash. Shocked, the manager runs over and says, “Mister, is there a problem – is there something I can help you with?” The blind man calmly replies, “No thanks – I’m just looking around.”
here’s the Cdn contact info:
4035 Saint-Ambroise Street
Suite 320
Montreal, QC H4C 2E1
Phone: 514-395-2914
Im gonna give them a call to ummm, request ‘clarification’ of their position. will advise.
Well yes, the “bird’s nest” is the saliva of swiftlets used to adhere nests to rocks. And honey is regurgitated from bees.
Way too many years ago I took a group of coworkers to a banquet style Chinese dinner. The soup was bird’s nest soup. One of the coworkers was fresh from Iowa and never had Chinese food. He thought it was just a fancy name, but I told him it really is from a bird’s nest.
Well, he refused his serving. When everyone was finishing, someone asked him if he really didn’t want it, because that person wanted seconds. When he saw how everyone seemed to enjoy it, he took his bowl and tasted the first spoonful tentatively.
Then the strangest thing happened, he gobbled down his bowl so he could make sure of having his seconds. This is a true story.
How many dogs may get sick or die when they come in contact with diseases brought by these rescued pets.
Soon after my father died, I looked around for a place to keep his dog until I decided what to do with him.
I looked up some boarding kennels and the better ones wanted to make sure that any dogs that stayed there were healthy and were up to date with their immunizations. That was to ensure that the incoming animals weren’t sick and, alternately, wouldn’t catch anything there.
Fortunately, in my case, that never became an issue. Shortly before I was to board him with the kennel I selected, the family that looked after him decided to adopt him.
If you knew how the dog was “prepared” for cooking, you wouldn’t. It’s pretty bad.
Have you never been to a prairie oyster festival in Southern Saskatchewan??
Not a lot of preparation needed!
The “gathering” of prarie oysters is pretty mild stuff when compared to how dogs are slaughtered for the table in Korea.
I lived in Southern China for a year in an area where dogmeat was a relatively common food. It came from a specific breed that easily weighed 20 pounds or more. I heard of people eating foreign breeds, but never saw it, as they would have been prohibitively expensive.
There are places where rich idiots eat weird things like tarantulas and scorpions. Are there enough rich idiots out there to turn raw Lhasa Apso into a delicacy?
Ummm…dumb question here. How much did it cost to fly them across the ocean? And how much care could that sum have afforded if they were kept in their home country?
I am waiting for the Government of India, or some George Soros funded group from India, to raid one of our feedlots and take the cattle home to roam the streets and slowing starve all because they were being kept in overcrowded pens and being fattened up to be EATEN!!!
Here’s an idea for these PETA culture-blockers … try the same stunt in NORTH Korea … where the STARVING prison-population of THAT failed Communist-Fascist might RESIST your actions. Might object to you removing their next MEAL from the table. They might RESIST with more than cans of pepper spray.
Dang it you took the words right out of my mouth…. or off my fingertips. Dogs are food some places, big deal, high strung, holier then thou folks have got to get off their high horse ( another meat) and just deal…..
The HSUS has a budget of (131 million dollars,) funded mostly through donations.
So Forty Six dogs probably cost $5,000 dollars apiece. $230,000 thousand dollars.
That would give them First Class Seats, Manicures, Movies, and a Beverage of their choice.
No-brainer prediction: thanks to soft-headed North American idiots, S. Korea will be the world’s biggest puppy mill.
And now 46 dogs that were already in shelters here have just had their chances for adoption further diminished. How many dogs may get sick or die when they come in contact with diseases brought by these rescued pets. Georgia and NJ are experiencing a parvo outbreak traced back to dogs brought from Puerto Rico. Nothing humane or ethical about bringing these dogs here.
I’m calling bullshit. Saint Bernards are way to gristley for human consumption. A nice succulent Labrador, that’s the ticket.
They were fed just barely enough to get by? Then they weren’t being raised for food. Duh. They’re most likely collected and held like that in hopes that some brain-dead PETA nutbars will show up and pay them big bucks to “rescue” them.
Yes, the people in Guangdong province (of which Guangzhou, nee Canton is the capitol) have a saying, they’ll eat anything with four legs except tables and chairs. Not only are the dogs of a special breed, but raised to be meat, no different than pigs, sheep, or cattle. Another reason not to eat other breeds is they might taste different.
The aversion to eating dogs is a Western prejudice, having raised dogs to a level almost equivalent to human. (Full disclosure: though I could logically write the previous paragraph, I still suffer the same prejudice.) PETA is engaging in neo-colonialism, by trying to impose its values on a sovereign country. (Not by buying, presumably, the dogs, but by trying to put dog farms out of business altogether.) Not that it will recognize that fact. The British Colonial government in Hong Kong did indeed impose its values, by banning eating dogs.
There is an interesting story, maybe some forty years back, concerning one episode of dog eating in the U.S. The San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles is heavily populated by Asians, and the U.S. decided to settle some of the Hmong refugees there. (The Hmongs are mountain people in Vietnam who fought against the Communists, and had to flee the country before the collapse of South Vietnam.) The city they were resettled in had a severe problem with feral dogs who had run in packs. The city spent a lot of money and time but could not solve the problem. Unlike the other occupants, however, the Hmongs were overjoyed with being able to hunt those dogs for food. And in short time, they hunted the dogs to almost extinction. So what did the city do?
You would think it should be grateful that someone was solving the feral dog problem for them, and left alone would have completely solved it in no time. But no. It couldn’t stand the idea of someone actually eating dogs, even feral dogs the city hoped to catch and gas. So it passed a city ordinance making it a crime to eat dogs.
With starving people in this world we spent how much on these dogs…how stupid! There are cannibals in this world why don’t you save these people…just a thought! If you are starving you will eat anything maggots even look good get my drift!
I lived in Seoul for a couple of years, and there learned a bit about the practice of dog meat consumption. I can’t say I’m against the consumption of dog, or most any other critter (yes, there are a few exceptions), but I do believe that the animals should be treated in a way that is reasonably humane. For dogs in Korea, the practice is particularly brutal, especially the final “processing” for consumption. I won’t describe it, but Koreans believe that the quality of the meat is greatly improved if the animal is slaughtered in a way that is slow, painful, and brutal.
That having been said, the practice of ransoming dogs to become rescue animals is purely counterproductive. All it will do is encourage breeders to increase their production, to sell more mistreated animals at premium prices, while continuing their existing production of animals for the meat market. If anyone believes otherwise, they completely misunderstand basic human nature.
People catching and eating feral dogs is as much of a public health problem as people catching and eating feral rats.
True. And the little breeds are great for appetizers!
oriental tastes are puzzling at times. google ‘birds nest soup’ for instance. really odd what they consider gourmet fair. Ive seen feral dogs in China. they all look the same, about the size of a pitbull, short hair naturally, not particularly ugly or attractive; built for life on the street.
If I was travelling in Korea and someone had dog on the menu. I’d try it.
Thanks for the best comment of the lot. Dogs in shelters all over N.America are put-down because nobody wants them. Meanwhile stupid do-gooders make the problem worse by importing diseased dogs from Asia. It’s unfortunate that this misguided practice can’t be stopped.
A blind man walks in to a department store with his seeing eye dog on a leash.
The store manager behind the customer service counter looks up, notices the customer is blind, and quickly looks away again.
Out of the corner of his eye he sees the blind man start swinging the dog over his head with its leash. Shocked, the manager runs over and says, “Mister, is there a problem – is there something I can help you with?” The blind man calmly replies, “No thanks – I’m just looking around.”
here’s the Cdn contact info:
4035 Saint-Ambroise Street
Suite 320
Montreal, QC H4C 2E1
Phone: 514-395-2914
Im gonna give them a call to ummm, request ‘clarification’ of their position. will advise.
Well yes, the “bird’s nest” is the saliva of swiftlets used to adhere nests to rocks. And honey is regurgitated from bees.
Way too many years ago I took a group of coworkers to a banquet style Chinese dinner. The soup was bird’s nest soup. One of the coworkers was fresh from Iowa and never had Chinese food. He thought it was just a fancy name, but I told him it really is from a bird’s nest.
Well, he refused his serving. When everyone was finishing, someone asked him if he really didn’t want it, because that person wanted seconds. When he saw how everyone seemed to enjoy it, he took his bowl and tasted the first spoonful tentatively.
Then the strangest thing happened, he gobbled down his bowl so he could make sure of having his seconds. This is a true story.
How many dogs may get sick or die when they come in contact with diseases brought by these rescued pets.
Soon after my father died, I looked around for a place to keep his dog until I decided what to do with him.
I looked up some boarding kennels and the better ones wanted to make sure that any dogs that stayed there were healthy and were up to date with their immunizations. That was to ensure that the incoming animals weren’t sick and, alternately, wouldn’t catch anything there.
Fortunately, in my case, that never became an issue. Shortly before I was to board him with the kennel I selected, the family that looked after him decided to adopt him.
If you knew how the dog was “prepared” for cooking, you wouldn’t. It’s pretty bad.
Have you never been to a prairie oyster festival in Southern Saskatchewan??
Not a lot of preparation needed!
The “gathering” of prarie oysters is pretty mild stuff when compared to how dogs are slaughtered for the table in Korea.
Is eating cats a problem too, or is it just dogs?
Ha ha ha ha … only for lonely, shut-in women.