Traditionally, some Chinese eat dogs because they think dogs have "medical properties" (20011,¶8). However,Michael Bristow reports animal rights activists in China stopped a truck carrying dogs and stopped people from eating dogs.According to Bristow, Chinese people are getting to view dogs ''as pets rather than protein''(2011,¶4).
In my opinion,Chinese should be allowed to eat dogs if they want to eat. According to ''China bans dog from Olympic menu'' on the BBC News, China banned offering dog meet at restaurants during Olympic.Why should China have banned ''doggie dishes''(2008,¶10)? I think they should have had a pride of their tradition. The incident reported by Michael Bristow sounds beautiful.Protecting animal's lives are admirable. However, I want to ask why animal rights activists protect only dogs or cats.Why don't they try to protect any other animal's lives? If cows become popular as pets ,will they stop eating them? I think someone who loves dogs have a right to avoid eating dogs ,but they have no right to regulate eating dogs.
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References
China bans dog from Olympic menu.BBC News. Retrieved July 11, 2008. from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7501768.stm
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that chinese government should allow their citizen eat dog. this is because it is one kind of creature like pork or meat. People avoid to eat dog or cat due to domestic animals. It might be bias for other animals. And,everyone should have right to eat whatever they want, but they dont cause damages to other people.
Dog consumption may be a culture or popularity of each person likes most of people who eat pork or chicken. However, my feeling doesn’t agree with eating dog. Dog is a pet and an honest friend for human for a long time, but who knows that our friends in East and Southeast Asia such as Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and in Thailand is being killed brutally and just to make dishes as one of favorite menu. In Thailand, there are culture eating dog in winter because some people believe it can give warm. When the dog meat is not enough to human need, dogs that has ever fed as a pet become food within family, before being commerce in village and country. Apart from eating dog, many dogs are killed for maroquinerie production and import to abroad. Killing dog is a new culture that gives income for someone who doesn’t feel that the dog’s alive. I have ever read how to kill the dog from internet. It is very surprise for me because I have known before that there are many methods for killing, but all are very suffering. For example, some cases were hanged and beaten with wooden baton or shot by electricity. Some are cooked and hitched up skin while still alive or kill by eating sulfuric acid. They believe that if dogs are tortured, the taste of meat will be better. After that, I ask myself why human is wind and without pitifulness. Even though the dogs can't speak human language but their eye feeling can tell us know what they think.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea.As I know,Chinese eat dog not only medical properties but also give warm because all of China is a cold city.In the past,during the war,China had disaster and poor. Food is not enough for people so they start eat dog. Nowaday,China is a rich country and change idea to feed dog.Some cities of China built dog's toilets and various dog's business.
I can't think of any reason why it would be OK to eat pigs but not dogs. Of course, as Tina notes elsewhere, personal preferences, largely emotional, might lead some people not to eat dogs or other animals, such as whales or elephants, which is fine, but those who don't want to eat them cannot reasonably use laws to force others to follow their preferences, unless there is a relevant difference - otherwise, it is just speciesism, and that sort of prejudice lacking relevant reasons is wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnd that brings us to the first opposing argument to Law's main reason against eating meat. Mr. Wilson presents this opposing argument at the end of page 128, and Law's response to this common opposing argument to the reason that killing animals to eat them is speciesism is the topic of the section "The mentally impaired".
How does Law answer this first opposing argument to the charge that killing animals for food is speciesism?
And in this section, Law also cites his first source. Does he agree or disagree with Singer?
(I hadn't planned to mention Law when I started this comment, but as I was writing, it seemed a natural extension, so I continued, which is fine in response writing.) I hope you find the questions useful, and they directly address Law's real arguments against eating meat.
Does he convince you that Mr. Wilson's first opposing argument to the charge of speciesism fails?
Does dog meat have any medicinal properties?
ReplyDeleteThat seems extremely unlikely to me. I am sure that this traditional Chinese (Asian generally) belief is wrong. And I have trouble believing that it would be more warming in winter than any other hot meat, or any other hot dish, such as tofu.
I don't think it did anything special for me when I tried it.