I am a dog lover and my hubby is a cat person, we manage to co-exist in peace and heaven had both fur babies in the past. :mdrmdr: When I lived in HI, it was well known that in the Philippine areas, the dog population was low and that is because for generations dog meat was eaten in the Philippines. It has sense been outlawed but still occurs. The killing and selling of dogs for food is not legal in the Philippines. It was banned in Manila in 1982. A similar ban was enacted nationally in 1998 via the Animal Welfare Act (Republic Act No. 8485). DO NOT WATCH as the GRAPHIC pictures may be upsetting. https://www.esdaw.eu/dog--cat-meat---philippines.html The black market is now the hot spot. South Korea still has a multi billion dollar dog meat industry. :negative: I refused to go to a dog meat restaurant when invited. Multiple times. I can't justify eating a companion animal. Unbelievably enough, in South Korea dogs are classified as livestock. :wacko: I won't go into any details about the dog meat industry as it makes me too mad. I also won't talk about cat juice. (Trust me. You don't want to know.) Happily, things are changing and the younger generation in South Korea enjoy having pets and are rejecting this "tradition." (Historically, Koreans have never eaten dogs except in cases of desperation brought on by famine or war.) Can't wait for the Millenium and the New Earth when man and animal can truly live in harmony. When I worked in China -- the wet markets were horrible. Our project team went out on a stroll one Saturday in a market and there was a booth selling puppies. One of my co-workers felt bad for the dogs and went to the shop owner to buy them to save them. She paid the man who proceeded to break their necks and wrap them in newspaper. We all stood there in horror. A sight that I still to this day can't "unsee". Eek and yet our “leaders” see nothing wrong in trading with them for our food and pet supplies??? 🙁 (Todd) oh noooo....
