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| Dave U. Random... |
 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:11 am |
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(Wall Street Journal) - Dog meat has been described as
"gamey" "complex," "buttery" and "floral." And there is a
proud pedigree of eating it. Fourth-century tombs contain
depictions of dogs being slaughtered along with other food
animals. It was a fundamental enough habit to have informed
language itself: the Sino-Korean character for "fair and
proper" (yeon) literally translates into "as cooked dog
meat is delicious." Hippocrates praised dog meat as a
source of strength. Dakota Indians enjoyed dog liver, and
not so long ago Hawaiians ate dog brains and blood. Captain
Cook ate dog. Roald Amundsen famously ate his sled dogs.
(Granted, he was really hungry.) And dogs are still eaten
to overcome bad luck in the Philippines; as medicine in
China and Korea; to enhance libido in Nigeria and in
numerous places, on every continent, because they taste
good. For centuries, the Chinese have raised special breeds
of dogs, like the black-tongued chow, for chow, and many
European countries still have laws on the books regarding
postmortem examination of dogs intended for human
consumption..
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