"Dog meat off the menu for Olympics"

Nature Boy · 11-07-2008 01:24PM #1

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/mhgbsncwqley/

Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month’s Beijing Olympic Games.

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

Waiters and waitresses should “patiently” suggest other options to diners who order dog, it said, quoting city tourism bureau vice-director Xiong Yumei.

Dog, known in Chinese as “xiangrou,” or “fragrant meat”, is eaten by some Chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.

Beijing is not the first Olympic host to slap a ban on eating dog meat.

South Korea banned dog meat during the 1988 Seoul Olympics by invoking a law prohibiting the sale of “foods deemed unsightly”. After the Olympics, the ban was not strictly enforced.

Dog meat is also eaten in some other Asian countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos.

I think this is pretty ridiculous. I mean if chinese people here started demanding dog meat in restaurants there would be uproar. Same for if muslims complain about christian religious symbols. But are we not just doing the same thing here (by 'we' i mean 'westerners')?

Reku · 11-07-2008 01:25PM

... there are a few Asian restaurants right beside pet stores in Dublin if you look... should we be suspicious?:p

e.g. there's one in Phibsborough AFAIK.

As to them banning it over there it is a bit daft, they could just warn visitors of what it's called and not to order it.

Aspiration · 11-07-2008 01:26PM

Dog meat is banned in HK too- just thought I'd add that.

Sherifu · 11-07-2008 01:28PM

We're not doing anything. Who made the decision to ban it, i'm assuming the Chinese?

javaboy · 11-07-2008 01:35PM

What's next? Are they going to stop systematically violating the human rights of their citizens too because it offends the westerners?

If I go away somewhere as a tourist, I want the real experience.

In France I want to see snails+frog's legs, in China I want dog meat on the menu.

Wazdakka · 11-07-2008 01:58PM

Thats pretty Wruff...

*Falls on sword*

Steve_o · 11-07-2008 02:25PM

Maybe they'll give it to you in a doggy bag....

/I'll get me coat

Call Me Jimmy · 11-07-2008 02:31PM

Maybe they'll give what in a doggy bag?

Steve_o · 11-07-2008 02:37PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Maybe they'll give what in a doggy bag?

Read the OP...:rolleyes:

Agamemnon · 11-07-2008 03:04PM

Fucking political correctness - the world has gone to the dogs.

/exits meekly

'Ol Jack Chance · 11-07-2008 03:15PM

tough sh*t tbh cos we all know its a dog eat dog world

*dies*

petethebrick · 11-07-2008 03:30PM

I lived in Korea for a while. There were quite a few dog restaurants in my neighbourhood. There is some law or something that meant they couldn't advertise dog in english, prob. to avoid offending foreigners. Pretty nice when I tried it. I prefer chicken or beef etc tbh

javaboy · 11-07-2008 03:32PM

petethebrick wrote: »

I lived in Korea for a while. There were quite a few dog restaurants in my neighbourhood. There is some law or something that meant they couldn't advertise dog in english, prob. to avoid offending foreigners. Pretty nice when I tried it. I prefer chicken or beef etc tbh

Would be a lot easier for foreigners to avoid eating it if they did advertise in English.

Loafer · 11-07-2008 03:33PM

Nature Boy wrote: »

I think this is pretty ridiculous. I mean if chinese people here started demanding dog meat in restaurants there would be uproar. Same for if muslims complain about christian religious symbols. But are we not just doing the same thing here (by 'we' i mean 'westerners')?

I'd say you can be pretty sure no "western" countries asked China to stop selling Dog meat. This is purely something that China decided to improve it's image to the outside world. Not that it will make any difference but then all governments can be pretty damn stupid.
Maybe this way they think we won't mind that whole Tibet situation

Also hey all, it's my 1st post blah blah yachetee smacketee and I will be at the drinks tonight... I will be the one on my own, cradling my pint and refilling it with my alcohol flavoured tears.

javaboy · 11-07-2008 03:37PM

Loafer wrote: »

Also hey all, it's my 1st post blah blah yachetee smacketee and I will be at the drinks tonight... I will be the one on my own, cradling my pint and refilling it with my alcohol flavoured tears.

I'm not going and I don't think anyone who is going knows me or what I look like so you have my permission to go and say you're javaboy. That will instantly get you in with the cool crowd. I'm very popular. Hope you're cool/handsome enough to pull it off.

who's yer one? · 11-07-2008 03:42PM

dog meat's actually been declining in popularity anyway, it started during more famine-y times, and stuck, but now china's doing better as a country demand for puppy sandwiches is dwindling. might also be the rise in popularity of dogs as pets there. a dog is seen as sort of a staus symbol.

Duggy747 · 11-07-2008 03:43PM

Mmmmm, dog!

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/vindu/wp-content/photos/Chinese_shrimp_market_after_2002_EU_ban.JPG

If not cooked right it does tend to taste woof

Ba-Dum-Bum....Tish!!

Calibos · 11-07-2008 03:54PM

I have three dogs and as much as I love them and all dogs I do realise that a pig is as intelligent as a dog so I would be hypocritical to say its icky to eat an intelligent animal like a dog whereas its OK to eat a dopey cow.

So I won't hold the taste for dog meat against the chinese. Its not the fact that they eat it that bugs me, its the fact that they apparently beat the ever loving sh1t out of it while its still alive because the fear hormones and adrenaline make the meat tastier and more tender.

Now I also know that there are some sadistic and careless feckers working in slaughterhouses over here who might not ensure every cow or pig is killed humanely, quickly and painlessly but at least these would be more isolated incidences.

Fulton Crown · 11-07-2008 04:31PM

Thanks to all the posters for this very interesting and informative thread...never realised what Dog meat was on the Chineese menu's and fear may have eaten some on recent visit...come to think of it the Restaurant was called "The Jack Lussell" ...never made the connection:eek:

Must watch out for tendency to chase cars, cock leg while having a pee or trying to lick my marbles....Jeze.

biko · 11-07-2008 04:33PM

Dog, the other white meat

uglyjohn · 11-07-2008 04:44PM

i'd eat it....i mean, why not? its just meat.

mumhaabu · 11-07-2008 04:54PM

This thread brings back memories, when I was Secondary School I did Home Economics (male here) Classroom full of girls, (me and my friend took Home Ec. so we could hang out with the girls lol!:cool:).

Anyway one day we discussing foods of other Nationalities, and I said how they eat dog meat in China, I was lampasted by the teacher and told it was not true and that I was being Racist!, the one Chinese student girl said they don't eat dog meat at all in China. (Can't blame her) I argued and got detention for a day or two. Government Education FTL.

Nolanger · 12-07-2008 01:25PM

If they eat dog meat in China then we should use that as an excuse to boycott the Olympics because we haven't a hope of winning a medal.

Fad · 12-07-2008 01:47PM

farohar wrote: »

... there are a few Asian restaurants right beside pet stores in Dublin if you look... should we be suspicious?:p

e.g. there's one in Phibsborough AFAIK.

What about the take away thats next door to a funeral home in blackrock (pretty decent food, mind you)

mumhaabu · 12-07-2008 02:47PM

Nolanger wrote: »

If they eat dog meat in China then we should use that as an excuse to boycott the Olympics because we haven't a hope of winning a medal.

Pretty mature comment, :rolleyes: Sports and political or ethical beliefs should always be kept separate. Do we see Hindu countries boycotting Irish produce or sport because we eat beef or Islamic and Jewish countries because we eat and produce pork and bacon. A pig is intelligent as any dog yet we eat them.

The Olympics are an international celebration of Sport and Cooperation, boycotting over the Chinese tradition of eating dogs. I don't like dogmat being on the menu but I believe that we have no right to be judgemental and should respect their wishes to eat what they wish. I'd be more concerned if the situation was different were forced to eat dogs from hunger and starvation as happened in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) during World War II.

javaboy · 12-07-2008 02:50PM

mumhaabu wrote: »

Pretty mature comment, :rolleyes: Sports and political or ethical beliefs should always be kept separate. Do we see Hindu countries boycotting Irish produce or sport because we eat beef or Islamic and Jewish countries because we eat and produce pork and bacon. A pig is intelligent as any dog yet we eat them.

Maybe.. and I could be wrong on this now but is there possibly the slightest chance that he was only joking? No... probably not but just maybe.

boneless · 12-07-2008 05:14PM

I'm not going to the 'lympics now....:P

Actually, I ate dog meat in Korea. And deep fried starlings. They had the feathers on still...

Fulton Crown · 12-07-2008 08:35PM

boneless wrote: »

I'm not going to the 'lympics now....:P

Actually, I ate dog meat in Korea. And deep fried starlings. They had the feathers on still...

The starlings...the starlings !!!! Quick !..how did they taste ??? Quick now ..flock of the bastids in my garden an I have the 12 bore loaded .....

Nevyn · 12-07-2008 08:42PM

This is nothing new the same thing happened when Korea had the olympics.

brianthebard · 12-07-2008 08:56PM

Calibos wrote: »

Its not the fact that they eat it that bugs me, its the fact that they apparently beat the ever loving sh1t out of it while its still alive because the fear hormones and adrenaline make the meat tastier and more tender.

thats the exact opposite of what happens when an animal is scared before dying,the meat is crap.i doubt its different for dogs.where did you hear this?

Laura Appleby · 12-07-2008 08:58PM

Oh my god you guys this is like the saddest thing I have ever heard in my whole life. If anything ever happened my cheery and poppet I would be so depressed for like forever

"Dog meat off the menu for Olympics"

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