South Korean Farmers Threaten to Release 2 Million Dogs in Protest of Dog Meat Ban - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    Cows are not bred only to supply meat, they supply labor to till fields and provide manure for crops. The dog breeds used for food in those regions are bred specifically for food, no different than current domesticated animals. Its the lack of that understanding and diminishing the work that other domesticated animals do that cause the problem. Hell there are plenty of studies that show pigs are smarter than dogs, we use them for organ transplants and stuff. You can legitamately argue pigs are more innately human than dogs are.

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      11 months ago

      Pigs don’t have expressive faces, built-in emotional understanding of humans, and, most importantly, infinite affection. Horses supplanted cows as farm… workhorses, which severely altered our perception of them in the west. It’s a marketing issue.

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        11 months ago

        Emphasis on the west. In eastern culture, cows are still used (e.g cows in india are considered sacred). Hell, an example of a cow that was originally not bred for consumption is the wagyu, a highly sought after piece of meat. But of course, as westerners, apparently we disregard that fact…

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          11 months ago

          In 1868, Englishman Edward Charles Kirby established the first slaughterhouse in Kobe, and in 1869, a sukiyaki restaurant called “Gekka-tei” opened in Kobe.

          TIL

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        11 months ago

        Pigs don’t have expressive faces,

        Yes, they do.

        built-in emotional understanding of humans

        No, they don’t.

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          I think some dogs do but not all breeds. Some dogs are dumb as shit but still awesome in their own way.