Dog meat culture

Uncategorized — YoonJung on April 4, 2006 at 11:09 am

Dog meat has developed in the Korea from ancient times. It is characteristic culture heritage of Korea and wisdom of Korean ancestors. There are several historical reasons that. Summer is very hot in Korea; so, a colory is consumed rapidly. To avoid this problem, people had to eat meat. At that time, cattles and pigs were important means of living to Korean who had forming in their life. Therefore they used a dog which often could see in thier surroudings. In the other country, for example, Nomadic people who used dogs to breeding a sheep could eat enough horse, cattle, and sheep so on. Instead, they couldn’t eat dogs. Nomadic age was over, and westerners began to raise a dog as pet. So, they mat not understand dog meat culture. ; but, they have not a right that dog meat culture is clearly cruelty to dogs. They must understand culture relative. I’ve never eaten dog meat. Even so, I don’t think that dog meat culture is low culture. It is one of our culture. Thus, I desire that if you were human of globalization age, you admit our eating culture. It is that rightful mission and essential grounding.  

2 Comments

  1. Yoon Jung,

    You might be surprised to know that I actually have had dog soup before, many times. Personally, I don’t object to people eating dog meat, but I think some of the ways the dogs are slaughtered are pretty scary… just like the way some chickens and cows and other animals are treated and slaughtered in agriculture. So it’s interesting to see your views on this…

    Anyway, I have a couple of questions:

    1. Did the eating of dogs originate in Korea? Or did it come to Korea from somewhere else? I know for a fact that dogs were also traditionally eaten in Southern China for several of the same reasons you said, especially because it was believed to give children special strength against illness in the heat of summer. (I’m pretty sure there are other places in South Asia where dogs are eaten now, too.)
    2. Are you sure the reason you give for non-Koreans not eating dog is actually true? I ask because I’ve never heard this explanation before. After all, Koreans were once nomadic people, too — that’s how they arrived from Mongolia, isn’t it? — and I think there must have been as many herd animals here as in Europe or the Middle East at the end of nomadic activity (or, in other words, when agriculture became dominant). even in Korea, the fact that a single kind of dog (똥개) is preferred for meat suggests that dog-eating isn’t so much based in a shortage of meat, but rather in a traditional superstition or belief about the power of that meat… and isn’t that why dog meat is more expensive that chicken meat, instead of cheaper? It seems to me dog meat is not a solution for the poor and desperate, but a luxury food… was it really the opposite in the past? Meanwhile, people in many places do not eat dog not because it’s a pet, but because people in those cultures consider it a very dirty, disgusting animal, the way you or I feel about, say, rats.

      3. I ask these questions because I am wondering if you did any research before you wrote this paragraph. It’s one thing to claim that “common knowledge” is true in conversation; it’s quite another if you write it down as a truth. If you state something is true in writing, you really should check whether it’s true or not. This is important because presenting popular ideas as truth, when they might not be facts, hurts your argument.

      There’s a lot more we could talk about but I’ll wait till we get to how to do argumentation in writing before I’ll bring it up.

      As for your writing itself: Be careful: from your first sentence, there’s a problem about being clear what you’re talking about. You wrote,

      Dog meat has developed in the Korea from ancient times.

      This sounds kind of strange, because you’re not actually talking about dog meat. Dog meat only lasts a week or two, and then it’s not edible. You’re talking about something else — about the practice of eating dog meat, or the custom of eating dogs, or even just something simple like dog-eating, or something like that. This might not be obvious right away, but think about it and I think it’ll make sense. What I’m saying is that you need to be very specific about which verb and which subject go together.

      “Dog meat culture” also sounds a little strange, and I think again it’s because Korean culture is not a “dog meat culture” but “a culture of dog-eating” (or, at least, it is in part “a culture of dog meat-eating”).

      Finally — check spelling! There are a few words spelled incorrectly here!

    Comment by mistergord — April 4, 2006 @ 3:05 pm

  2. I was surprised that is your comment. I appreciate. Frankly, I don’t know exactly. But, I like it usually. A few ago,I saw some article about a culture of dog-eating and I wrote about this article. I’ll check your pointing. And then, I’ll question if I don’t understand. Thank you,sir!!^^

    Comment by YoonJung — April 7, 2006 @ 7:07 pm

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