[KS] Beginning of dog-meat consumption

[Frank Hoffmann]

There is an English language, pretty well written, intriguing text on 
dog meat consumption and its history at Korean Animal Rights Advocates 
website:
http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-meat-issue/the-history-of-koreas-dog-meat-industry.html

That also has an image, although small, but very clear (better than 
many other images--maybe somehow digitally 'repaired') of the Anak #3 
mural that Dr. Pak had mentioned (the third photo in that article).

This essay, by an anonymous author, brings up quite a number of 
arguments and thoughts that I would think are well worth considering: 
for example, that we need to consider what Anak #3 has to do with 
"Korea"--and that what we see there are possibly Chinese customs of the 
time (that relates then to the old discussion of who is burried there, 
a "Chinese" or a "Korean"--and to the whole early-Korea-as-nation 
discourse, etc.) Another of several good points the author makes, I 
quote: "Another part of the problem is that tradition, even one as 
perverted as dog-meat eating, is linked with nationalist sentiment. Dog 
meat eating is even perceived by some as a defiant act against western 
bullying and a kind of nationalistic practice, which is all 
ridiculous." 

Dog meat, by the way, is not only being consumed in northeast Asia. I 
would just have to drive a hundred miles straight north to get a dish 
of Swiss Mostbröckli made with dog meat--popular in the Alps (not 
served to tourists, but consumed in private settings at various 
occasions). However, even as a tourist you certainly can buy cat pelts 
in many stores there.


Best,
Frank