I don't know if this true or not.
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/bernard.htm

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reports from and about China are notoriously difficult to verify, and given the size and diversity of China's population, any statement about what "Chinese people do" has to be taken with a grain of salt. Several European newspapers and news agencies have run items in recent weeks about the raising of St. Bernard dogs for food in China, although newspapers often pick up stories from each other without verifying the information (and thus all report the same apocryphal story as true, as recently happened with the Working Stiff legend). Some of these papers carried stories filed by reporters in Beijing itself, which gives them a bit more credibility, but even these reporters seem to have been relaying information they were told rather than scenes they personally witnessed. Nonetheless, we're cautiously assuming the basic facts found in the reports are true, based on the sheer persistence of the reports.

The main thrust of the articles is that some 11,000 signatures have been collected by a group in Switzerland known as the SOS St Bernard Dogs in order to prod the Swiss government into lodging a formal protest with China, and the validity of the protest is supported with various quotes and scenes gathered from around China:


In Datong, where coal was once the biggest business, sacked miners now make money cross-breeding pure St Bernards with local mutts that are reared solely for the stovetop. "The meat is so tender and has a unique aroma," said Meng Li, a local breeder.

It better be an urban legend.....that's just wrong....

I see no reason why it wouldn't be true... the chinese have an infamous lack of respect when it comes to animals, so I don't see why some wouldn't breed large dogs for food. After all we breed pigs to eat, and they're more intelligent...

There are loads of possible jokes to be had here. But I wont.

The act of eating dogs, to me is cruel. But as we know different cultures and the need to survive, it happens.

so are you saying that we also have a lack of respect for animals?

but why not, they're animals, and as we are also animals and being omnivores (eat both meat and vegetables + fruits) why not eat them as well. you eat lambs and pigs and chickens ect (by you I mean everyone apart from vegetarians)

It makes me laugh when people who eat chicken, beef, lamb and fish get all upset about people eating dogs. Really, what is the difference???? You are just as bad in my eyes.

No, but if you could tell me where I wrote that i'd appreciate it.

My point was that the chinese have a lack of regard for animals when it comes to eating, they don't always discriminate between pets/endangered etc as we well know. Often, food to them is food no matter w3hat the source, and in many parts they have less choice of food variety as we take for granted.

We on the other hand, eat cattle and do not touch animals we consider as pets or intelligent. Which is hypocritical seeing as pigs are in fact more intelligent than dogs.

l agree with what you are saying richdog , it is well known that Chinese eat dog and cat , here is a link but BEWARE , on the website there are picture that may be DISTURBING to some people , if you love dogs you will probably find the pictures OFFENSIVE. (l know l did)
but not all Chinese eat dog some are against eating dog, in the article it states that

when it comes to food there is no right or wrong. an example is india. they respect the cows and worship the cows (correct me if iam wrong b/c iam not sure). so its obviously that we are wrong in their eyes. who are we to say what is wrong and what is right? we just have to respect the other cultures, because its obviously that every culture is very different. muslims dont eat pork b/c of their religion. so should i make fun and say that bacon is tasty come and eat it, or respect them? ofcourse eating dogs is really strange but not wrong.

have a nice day

Its the point of view...

To the people who eat dogs, thy are just like pigs....we keep dogs as pets, so we are offended....how do you think people who keep Pot-Bellied Pigs as pets feel about pork?

The Natives in New Guinea eat Snakes and lizards...the Zoe People of Brazil eat andacondas and jaguars....Many people around South-east Asia eat monkeys....we eat beef, pork, and lamb...

Only Hindus...thats why they are mostly Vegetarians or just don't eat beef (chicken and others is fine...). A surprising amount eat beef...Not all of India dpon't eat cows...I;m from India, but I'm Catholic...I eat beef.


and in their eyes, what we eat is strange...

i totally agree with you frogfish. ofcourse we are offended. as the indians are offended when we eat cows which is their god (i think so ). every culture is offended by another culture thats life i guess.

have a nice day

sorry richdog, I read your post wrong >_< I mis-read it, but i just re-read your post and it makes more sense than it did earlier to me

Hey, food is food. I guess you just have to acquire a taste for certain things.

yeah l agree

They don't WORSHIP cows...they just don't hurt them...they are religious symbols, like the crucifix..

lol maybe I didn't word it as I should have, sometimes when you are thinking and typing at the same time what sounds simple to you in your head as a thought... doesn't always look as clear to someone as a post.

thanks frogfish now i know the truth!!!!!
about cows

i cant wait to go and eat my lunch. its scorpions with rice, spider soup, and monkey brains(from indian jones) and for dessert i will have an albino tiger . sweet !!!
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It's kind of hard to eat an animal after you've come to think of them as friends, pets, or part of the family. When we read about dogs being butchered and eaten we invaryably think of Fido and we feel repulsed. This could happen with any animal. In the story "Charlettes Web" the little girl doesn't want her "pet" pig to be slaughtered.

I was once told by a girl from South Korea that Americans ask "What is it?" and Asians ask "How do you eat it?". I don't know, she might have been exagerating.
Of course there are / were some cultures who considered it a funeral rite to cook and eat thier dead relatives. They seemed shocked that the anthropologists told them that westerners were not cannabals.

When you concider the foods that we do eat in the west, loaded down with all the chemical perservetives and colouring dyes, a lot of the world would probably be put off by our diets!

I eat deer and I know that many people are disturbed by images of "Bambi" whenever the thoght crosses thier minds. So, in some ways, I guess that I'm not better.

Even though sleddogs have been consumed by Eskimos when near starvation and the Soviets are rumored to have eaten just about anything during the seige of Stalingrad, I still find eating dog to be revolting. I guess if I were near starvation myself I would do whatever I had to do but, I certainly would not like it.

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I just don't like the idea of eating a carnivore. It feels like it's wrong. I am offended by the idea of them breeding dogs for food and know that we do the same with our cattle and such. But I mostly don't like the idea of eating a carnivore, it's just a personal issue of mine.

I guess that it's mostly a case of personal...er...taste.

If you want to know more about these things, here are some links :
http://www.chinasucks.org/xichang.htm
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/dog.html

There are many websites contributed to these gruesome ' pieces of Chinese culture " circulating the world wide web. I suggest you take a look.

If this is a piece of these peoples "culture", then I dont like their culture. These animals are being brutally tortured and butchered for no reason. They are harmless and defenceless, intelligent animals. They dont need the dogs for food. Its concidered to be a 'delicacy'.

Well... dogs aren't really carnivores in the strictest sense. Sure, they eat meat, but 99% of the time it is food provided by humans out of a tin or off of a dinnerplate... we're not exactly talking a graceful killer like a Lion that hunts antelopes in your back yard.

Forget the dogs! In some more rural parts of Zhejiang province in China, some schools collect young student's urine to cook with eggs. It is supposed to be healthy. I'll take the dog kabob anyday over piss-over-easy. When I first heard of this I asked one of my students from the province about this, and he confirmed that it is true. Believe it or not.

Not sure about the Chinese, but I've first-hand experience that Vietnamese eat canines.

"Dried dogs legs" hang in shop windows in shady stores in the town I live.

Mmm.

I have a preditory instinct I guess.

I will eat deer, rabbit, cows, pigs, chickens. Because to me they are prey animals.

Though many preditory animals will eat dogs and cats... But, because I have a ready source of food (go get me a steak from the store!) I see no need to eat dogs and cats. (and these same preditory animals will generaly stay away from human pets when their normal prey animals are avalible...)

Does that mean that if my meat supply is gone will I eat dogs and cats? No.. ;P As pointed out.. humans are omnivours... I'll just move on to the next... Then again, I have been known to go for days without eating so... *shrugs*

It all goes to the same place, your stomach, higher, lower intestine. Some cultures such as Hendu believe in cows are sacred and eating them is a crime agains't nature. Just our opinion on the matter, not a weird fact at all but just a fact.

When I was in college, most of the people there would call Chinese food "Poodles & Noodles"! If someone bought a lot of Chinese take-out, we'd say that the bought "Oodles and oodles of poodles and noodles! The menus at such places were called "doodles of food-les".

We had much better alcohol back then!

Yes, that is very very true. I was in China two years ago and believe me, animals are NOT treated well there.

And this is a country where in certain parts they eat FRIED RATS.
St. Bernards? I wouldn't be surprised if this were true....

They have a saying in China that the people in Guangdong province (Canton) eat everything with legs, except tables, and they eat everything with wings, except airplanes. Hence, pretty much everything is fair game.

When I lived there, the most unique things I ate were camel, horse, yak, and inscets. The horse was not very good. I would try dog if given the opportunity.

My philosophy is that if other humans eat it, I can eat it too: except, of course, the urine eggs.

Yes, that is very true as well.
Th most exotic thing I have ate was shark meat. Shark fin soup doesn't count!

mmmm st.benard-a-licous

YuCk!!! poor dogs...

It boils down to everyone but vegetarians being hypocrits when it comes to food,I'm a hypocrit too in the end I eat meat but I think the way animals are killed and bred is wrong.

Yup, slaughtering a dog for food is no different than a pig or cow or what not. All of these animals feel fear and pain of slaughterhouses, so I think it's all wrong and terrible. Even hunting a wild animal for meat is different than having an animal caged and mistreated for its entire life.

And Balut - I will never eat that.

I've had Deer, Bear, Elk, Beaver, squirrel, sheep (&lamb) Dog, pig, Rattle Snake, Shark, Alligator, Emu, Chicken, Cow, Ox, rabbit. Once you get most of it in sauce or cooked you can't usually tell the difference anyways. Food is food. Living on a farm as a kid you sometimes became attached to the animals as pets, but you always knew that they would eventually end up on the dinner table. I remember having packages of meat in the freezer labeled with the animal's name (Daisy, Agnes, Piggy,) instead of beef, chicken, bacon.

Now, in India it's custom to bury the dead (humans and animals) in rivers. People collect bones from the river bank and sell them to be made into bone meal. The US use to be one of the biggest importers of bone meal and it was primarily fed to cattle. The practice has taken a hit due to Mad Cow disease concerns, but it still happens. Even in the US animal bones (especially cattle,) are rendered back into feed for livestock. That's a lot more disturbing to me then eating animals we consider pets.

You sound like a vegetarian !! Are you ? but, I think hunting down animals is a bad thing too, no animal deserves to die just because people like the taste of its flesh and blood.

Yeah, I am a vegetarian. I don't really see a need in eating animals anymore; we don't need that to survive and the way it is done is usually barbaric. I am less opposed to (legally) hunting animals for food than having them raised in misery in a slaughterhouse.