There have been records of eating dog meat in many countries around the world, and some areas of Asia have continued this custom.According to the incomplete statistics of the International Humanitarian Association, Asia slaughtered about 30 million dogs each year.Among them, 1,000 to 20 million are about 5 million in China, Vietnam, and about 1 million in South Korea and Indonesia.As the dog enters the home, it has become the most loyal friend of human beings, and eating dog meat has become a dispute between traditional customs and civilized value.
The South Korean Parliament passed the dog meat bill on the 9th of this month, but it was given a three -year buffer period to the industry.This means that the Korean dog and meat industry will become a complete history in 2027. It will tear in Korean society for many years, and the government has finally come to an end.However, meat dog farmers, restaurant owners and other related industry players strongly require the government to give money compensation. The problem of fasting dog meat may not end, but just start.
Eating dog meat in South Korea is a huge controversial problem for intergenerational gaps.Whenever South Korea holds international competitions, eating dog meat problems will also become the focus of the world.South Korea's largest protest to eat dog meat dates back to 1988.At that time, Seoul (at the time of Seoul) was preparing to host the Olympic Games. Some foreign animal protection organizations were to resist the Olympic Games and strongly demanded that South Korea banned dog meat.At that time, the president Quan Douhuan took measures to hide the dog meat restaurant and squeezed these restaurants to the suburbs of Seoul. The name of the dog's soup was also required to change it to the four seasons soup, nutritional soup, and tonic soup.
In 2001, when South Korea and Japan were busy organizing the World Cup next year, French actress Bridte Bardot was politely criticized for Korean people to eat dog meat as a brutal tradition when receiving visiting South Korean media, which once again set off controversy.Prior to the convening of the Pingchang Winter Olympics in 2018, the Jiangyuan Dao government was worried that animal protection groups would also provide subsidies for the dog soup restaurant, asking operators to change their signboards during the competition.
At present, there are more than 6 million family pet dogs in South Korea, and the voices of fasting dog meat have also risen.Fasting dog meat bills that have not been able to promote the dog meat operator have also obtained new impetus due to President Yin Xiyue.Yin Xiyue and his wife Jin Jianxi had no children for 12 years and adopted five cats and six dogs.Jin Jianxi has repeatedly stated that after fasting dog meat, the ruling party actively promoted the bill.The method of fasting dog meat is therefore also known as Jin Jianxi.
South Korean President Yin Xiyue (left) and his wife Kim Jianxi raised five cats and six dogs.The picture shows the two people taken when they visited the guide dog training center in December 2022.(AFP)
According to the bill, South Korea plans to ban from raising, slaughtering, distributing and selling dog meat for humans from 2027.The purpose of eating, breeding, and selling dogs for the purpose of consumption can be sentenced to less than two years in prison or fines of less than 20 million won.
Dogs and meat vendors and diners are indignant to the bill, but they dare not publicize.They are worried that they will become street mice because of this business and eating dog meat. They are quite resistant to media interviews, and most of them are unwilling to name.
Diner: Eating dog meat is personal preference for government without power
A dog and meat vendor who opened a store in Nanshi, Gyeonggi Road City, told Lianhe Zaobao depressed: This is once the largest dog meat market in South Korea. After passing the dog meat bill, there are more reporters interviewed these days than guests.
When the Mudan market opened in the 1960s, there were shops selling dog meat.In 2001, there were as many as 54 dog meat restaurants, but it has been reduced to about 20.
On one of the streets where the meat shop concentration, the merchant's signatures can hardly find the word dog meat.There is a dog meat shop even cover the refrigerator stored in dog meat with cloth.In the interview, many citizens reported that dog meat was a dish they had eaten in order to raise themselves, and they were puzzled by the forced government forced prohibition.
Mr. Yin (60 -year -old), who often came to eat dog broth in the past: I have eaten dog broth once a month, but the news of fasting dog meat is constantly. Because of cared about the eyes of others, I have n’t been here for two months. I have n’t come for two months.It's right.I think this is completely personal preference, not what the government should manage, and it is to protect animals. So why is cattle and pork?
Mr. Li (60 -year -old) who had just went to the dog meat soup shop complained: Whenever I was tired, I would come to eat a bowl of dog soup.After passing the bill, I feel unhappy now.
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Most young people in South Korea have long been not eating dog meat, but the elderly are still insisting on this tradition, or they are living.The picture shows the dog soup sold in a restaurant in Daegu's restaurant.(AFP)
When the Director -General of the Mudan Market Family Livestock Association, Kim Horizon (65 years old) was tried to defend the dog meat when he was interviewed by Lianhe Morning Post.He said: Eating dog meat in South Korea is a tradition of hundreds of years, and dog meat is food.Dog meat is less fat and can make up for himself. After the surgery, the doctor also told patients to eat dog meat to make up. People who have not eaten do not know how good it is for the body.But now the government wants to fast dog meat. It seems that there is no way to do business in the future.
Jinxi has been selling dog meat in the Peony market for more than 30 years, and has also opened a dog meat restaurant.According to him, the guests are mainly seniors over 60 years old.
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Kim Tongbei (65 years old), director of the Family Lives Family Friendship Association of Gyeonggi -do, South Korea, has been selling dog meat in the peony market for more than 30 years, and has also opened a dog meat restaurant.(Photo by Jiang Guiying)
Most young people in South Korea have long been not eating dog meat, but older people are still insisting on this tradition, or for this.The polls released by the Seoul Think Tank Animal Welfare, Research and Education Monday (January 22) showed that more than 94%of the interviewed people have not eaten dog meat in the past year, and 93%say that they will not eat dog meat in the future.
But at the same time, some polls also show that one of each of the three Koreans is opposed to fasting dog meat although not eating dog meat.
Li Baolla, who raised a pet dog (32 years old, administrator) said: Although emotionally hopes to fast dog meat, in principle, dogs should actually eat hellip; hellip; eat dog meat or sell for saleDog meat is also personal rights.
The property rights of the property have violated the farmers' request for money compensation
In the face of the 2027 period, Korean dog meat industry has to start thinking.
Kimchita said that the owners of the Peony Market Dog Meat Restaurant are considering changing the dog meat street to Black Shanyang Street and continuing to do business.His restaurant also sells chickens, ducks and black goat soup, but dog broth is still the main source of income.Give up dog meat and focus on selling black goat soup. It is still unknown whether it can support business.
Writers like Kim Lingbei therefore hoped that the government would give compensation and the industry -assisted transformation or switching.Kimchita said: We do not want low -interest loan assistance, and we need actual economic compensation.
However, the current fasting dog meat bill does not clearly include a solution for providing compensation for relevant industry.
Zhu Yongfeng (60 years old), president of the Korean Meat Dog Faculture Association, appealed to the United Za posters. The government did not beforehandThere is an opinion of soliciting farmers.He criticized this as a serious violation of personal property rights, and the government needs to compensate farmers' economic losses.
Zhu Yongfeng's breeding households raised 1,500 meat dogs.He said: Most farmers are seventy -eighty -year -olds. They have difficulty changing the way of making a living. The minimum demand of this group of people is to continue this industry in their lifetime.The new bill deprives them of their right to survive.
We originally hoped that the government would give enough time to transfer or deal with facilities.The government's statement so far seems to only provide some subsidies and low interest rate loans for demolition of farms.We are seeking compensation for each dog at least 2 million won (about S $ 2004) to make up for the loss of the next five years and the cost of facilities that are about to abandon.
According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture of South Korea, as of 2022, about 5,000 farms across the country raised 2 million dogs each year, and there were 1,666 restaurants selling dog meat.There are currently about 520,000 meat dogs in major farms.
Relevant sources of South Korean government revealed that if they meet the requirements of the association, the compensation will exceed 1 trillion won.The government is discussing a assistance plan with relevant departments and operators, but the compensation cost of 2 million won per dog is too high.
Zhu Yongfeng said: How can I handle 520,000 meat dogs within three years?Why is the government so anxious to pass the bill?Now young people do not eat dog meat. After 10 or 20 years, the dog meat industry may slowly disappear with the death of the old generation.Why don't the government give us enough time to prepare?
Vietnam's law enforcement is not strict dog meat.
Dog meat is very popular in Vietnam, but animal protectionists call many dog meat from Vietnam a dining table.Food safety issues forced officials to strengthen control in recent years, but law enforcement has not strictly obstacled.
In Vietnam, dog meat with a price of about 200,000 South Shield (about 11) is regarded as a cheap food.The Southeast Asian cat and dog trade report released by the International Animal Protection Organization in 2020 states that Vietnamese have an average of about 5 million dogs a year, while 60 % of the respondents in the capital Hanoi have eaten dog meat.
Vietnamese people eat dog meat. Some people like dog meat and are suitable for beer. There are also public reflection in polls that eating dog meat can help eliminate obscurity, and the dog meat is rich in nutrition. It can drive cold and warm up.
After the opening of a meat dog farm and slaughterhouse in Taiyuan, northeast Vietnam, it released more than 40 dogs in the farm after the opening in November 2023, including a puppy that was only 10 days.(AFP)
However, the source of Vietnamese meat dog meat is worrying.Unlike South Korea, there are few meat dog farms in Vietnam. Most of the dog meat sent to the dining table believes that animals from neighbor are smuggled, killed stray dogs and stole pets.Animal protection organizations revealed that some dogs sold in the Vietnamese market and restaurants even wore the collar given by the dog owner.
In an interview with Lord Morning Post, Lola Webber, who is responsible for fasting dog meat initiative, said that Vietnam's pet theft was very rampant.The Association launched an online survey in September last year that as many as 87%of the 800 Vietnamese interviewed said that their pets had been stolen, or pets with acquaintances were stolen.
From time to time, Vietnam will appear news that citizens appeal to pets and criminal gangs steal pets.Vietnam reported in July 2022 that the Vietnamese police arrested a six members of the dog stolen gang in the central and northern coastal areas.This gang stole about 100 dogs every night.They were divided into two roads. The four of them hunting their pet dogs with electric shock guns, and their associated trucks followed the corpse to collect corpses, and then sold them at 50,000 Yue South Dun per kilogram.
Weber, who is resident in Indonesia, said: Almost all dog meat on the market comes from dogs stolen from home or on the street. There is no way to verify the health and vaccination status of dogs. Hellip; HelloP;Poison used when.
70 to 100 people die in some cases of rabies in rabies and dogs.
In northern Vietnam, which is more common to eat dog meat, although there are meat dog farms, these facilities are approved more like dogs to increase fertilizer.Weber said that these facilities generally did not reproduce, but fed the dogs found in the community and sold them to the slaughterhouse. Food safety was also not guaranteed.
Vietnam's slaughterhouses have found that rabies are positive dogs.According to data from the World Health Organization, 70 to 100 people die in Rabies each year in Vietnam, and some cases have been confirmed that they are related to slaughtering dogs and edible dog meat.
Due to the consideration of food safety and tourism image, Hanoi launched a publicity to dog meat in 2018, encouraging the people not to eat dog meat anymore.The tourist city Hui also signed an agreement with the Animal Protection Organization in 2021, promising to gradually eliminate the sale and consumption of cats and dogs.
According to statistics from the Hanoi City Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau, after the introduction of Hanoi in 2018, 30 % of the dog meat shops in the city closed down that year from 1,100 to 800.However, only a few of these measures have been implemented so far and have not expanded to the whole country.
Qiao Yuexing (right), who has operated meat dog breeding farms and slaughterhouses in Taiyuan, Vietnam, decided to get business and transfer careers last year.The dogs originally raised in the farm were handed over to the International Humanitarian Association of the Animal Protection Organization.(AFP)
Although the Vietnamese government is not discussing fasting dog meat, it has introduced a series of control measures in recent years to improve the safety of eating dog meat.This includes illegal behavior of international imports and domestic cross -provincial cats and dogs that are not regulated in 2009. When cats and dogs are required to transport cats and dogs in September 2012, they must have animal quarantine, rabies vaccination certificate, and certificate of originOtherwise, the official can confiscate animals and humanitarian disposal animals suspected of infection rabies.
However, the law enforcement situation is not satisfactory.Weber said almost all quarantine and cats and dog transportation documents were forged.The quarantine stations are not strict with laws and law enforcement, and rarely intercept dog traffickers who have traded illegal transactions.
Tuan Bendixsen, director of the Vietnamese project of the Asian Animal Fund, also pointed out that the Vietnamese government did not set up a canine shelter in the United Morning Post. Therefore, local officials often face the problem of how to deal with the confiscated animals during law enforcement.Although some quarantine stations have small temporary districts, the animals that can be accommodated are very limited.
It is also difficult to convict dog traffickers.Ben Dixon explained: The police must catch him on the thief's theft and prove that these dogs were stolen, which was not easy.
Survey: About 60 % of Vietnamese support fasting dog meat
Vietnamese people have different opinions on fasting dog meat.Opponents believe that eating dog meat is a food culture in Vietnam and should not be changed due to external preferences; some people think that dog meat and chicken, duck fish are no different, and should strengthen supervision of dog meat, rather than completely strangled; some people think that dog meat has not caused a large scale yetPopularity does not need to be banned.
However, as the number of pets increases, people's emphasis on food safety and the rise of animal protection, the social trend has gradually changed.The polls of the International Humanitarian Association in September last year showed that 64%of Vietnamese interviewees supported fasting dog meat, and 68%that supported dog meat traders.
Weber said: Vietnam's dog meat trading involves illegal acts, endangering the health and safety of the entire country.Dog meat trade and Vietnam's vows to eliminate rabies in 2030 do not match hellip; hellip;forbidden.
