Anyone here ever eat dog?

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Pair detained for poisoning dogs to sell for meat in Shanghai



Two men suspected of poisoning dogs then selling the meat to restaurants were arrested in Shanghai's Songjiang district
The suspects, Li and Zhou, killed the dogs using poison darts and bones tainted with cyanide, Shanghai Daily reports.
According to police, they drove through the streets and threw the cyanide-laced bones at the dogs. Once the animal chewed on the bone, it would fall over dead and the men would pack it up in their van. It's believed that they used this method to kill at least five dogs from June to early July, selling some of the carcasses to markets for meat.
The pair also used a crossbow and poison darts to kill six dogs in late July. It's unclear whether the animals poisoned were strays or pets.
Li and Zhou now face charges of selling toxic food, although there are no reports of people becoming ill from eating the meat.
Sadly, such cases have been seen before. In December, it was reported that dog thieves in Hebei province killed up to eight dogs a day roaming the streets armed with poisoned darts. Months before, 17 men in Zhejiang pled guilty to trading in tons of toxic dog meat that ended up being sold to restaurants and eaten.
While animal protection laws may not exist in China, dog-nappers can still face legal trouble if they are found to have distributed potentially poisoned meat. Still, some choose to hand down punishment in their own way. In an infamous case from Guilin last April, two men caught stealing dogs to sell for meat were brutally beaten by a mob of villagers.
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Sorry bb. Hope you've bailed out of following this thread by now.

No need to apologize Bossman. It is what it is. I get it.

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...or perhaps they fuel?

Western tourists fuelling demand for 'abhorrent' dog meat trade in Southeast Asia, activists say
Some of the animals are boiled alive because of a belief it tenderises the meat
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Saturday 23 January 2016


Caged dogs sit on the side of Renminzhong Road, waiting to be transferred to a slaughterhouse in a narrow alley AP/Humane Society International

Western tourists are funding “abhorrent cruelty" in the dog meat trade that sees family pets stolen, skinned and boiled alive, activists say.

The Soi Dog Foundation, which campaigns against the practice in Vietnam, China and South Korea, said what would be a waning tradition is being fuelled by foreign consumers.

John Dalley, the charity’s co-founder and vice president, told ABC News that the animals are clubbed to death “if they are lucky” but others are strung up and skinned, burned or boiled alive.

“The cruelty is abhorrent. There is literally no method to the slaughter, it's almost madness,” he said.

“What we are seeing more and more of is tour guides in Vietnam, pushing Western tourists to try dog meat, because it is a cultural thing.

“Tourists are not realising what the dog has gone through and also the danger they are putting themselves in - the health issues are real.”

Rabies has been found in dog meat, although it cannot transmit the disease to humans, and it has also been linked to outbreaks of cholera.

An estimated five million dogs are eaten in Vietnam every year and 2.5 million in the Korean Peninsula, while activists believe 70 per cent of those are stolen pets.

Celebrities including Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench have appeared in a campaign video by the Soi Dog Foundation to raise awareness of the horrific trade.

Warning: Some viewers may find scenes in this video distressing



“I didn’t know that these innocent creatures are crammed into cages so brutally that their bones almost break, so tightly that they can’t move,” Dame Judi said.

“They’re trapped like this for the smuggled journey, which can take days.”

Footage filmed by activists shows dogs being thrown into cages where they are left starving and crying, before being stacked on to lorries for transport.

Many are crushed or suffocated on the journey, while others starve or die of thirst.

Some abattoirs boil the dogs alive because of the belief that the adrenaline released during pain tenderises the meat.

Authorities are cracking down on the trade in dogs for meat and skin in Thailand, which is often linked to organised gangs exporting to Vietnam and China.

All meat is treated harshly. Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys...we just relate to dogs better.

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This is the epitome of a bad employee. I can't imagine there are that many wild corgis in China. What an idiot.

Chinese factory worker cooks and eats employer’s ‘wild’ corgi
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 21 February, 2016, 8:54pm
UPDATED : Monday, 22 February, 2016, 12:28am
Gloria Chan gloria.chan@scmp.com


A Pembroke Welsh Corgi. The animal at the centre of the dispute was worth US$1,840, according to The Mirror newspaper. Photo: AFP

A factory worker in eastern China has been charged with theft and released on bail after killing and eating his employer’s corgi because he thought it was “wild”, a Beijing newspaper reported.

The man, surnamed Zhang, found the corgi in the public toilets at the factory grounds in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, on February 13, according to The Mirror.

Thinking it was a wild dog, Zhang beat it to death with a wooden stick, then took the dog's body to his staff quarters that night. He and his two roommates shaved and skinned the dog, then cooked and ate it the next day.

The dog was worth an estimated 12,000 yuan (US$1,840 or HK$14,300).

They did not know that the dog was their employer’s pet until the factory owner, surnamed Wang, put up a notice about the missing animal the next day, offering a reward of 8,000 yuan for any information about it.

The “missing” poster the owner put up. Photo: SCMP pictures

Wang received a phone call from a factory worker saying that he saw Zhang beating a dog on the night it went missing. Wang visited Zhang’s quarters where he found the floor covered with dog fur and a knife with fur stuck to it.

“I thought it was a wild dog, I did not know it was so precious,” Zhang was quoted as saying. He and his roommates offered to pay Wang for his loss, but Wang refused and took the three men to the police station.

Zhang was charged with theft and released on bail. The other two men were fired by Wang.

According to Wang, he bought the corgi as a month-old puppy for his daughter in May last year.