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That headline is a serious roller coaster ride…
Am I missing something?
Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.
The article just ends after this part:
Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.
Checking the archive didn’t turn up any more of the article.
I think the rest of the article is locked behind javascript, there was a fade and a button to load the rest of the article.
Yes to this, foreign dogs are worth more money as pets. Local common breeds are the only ones that get used for meat.
Maybe just stop eating dogs eh?
While not getting into whether we should eat meat at all, if we are eating meat, I don’t see how eating dog meat is any more or less immoral than eating most other meats. Eating someone’s pet, whether it be a dog or a pot belly pig is a shit move, but I doubt the restaurant was told they were buying someone’s pet.
technically everything has a consciousness including plants, beans etc so you lose high ground if youre going to play a moral card in any of this. plants just can run away or scream.
it can still be tragic to eat an animal companion.
let’s just not pretend someone holds sll the moral cards for not eating consciousness to stay alive. nobody in these fleshbags holds any of the high ground there.
If you believe plants experience suffering, and would like to reduce suffering, you should go vegan. The reason is that by eating meat, you kill or harm way more plants — the plants that have been eaten by the animals you eat.
Should have sold the dog as a pet. Previous owner paid $300USD for him.
This hits close to home since my dog actually escaped the Chinese meat market. As far as I’m aware it’s actually a big problem over there. They were owned by an (assuming) wealthy family then stolen and sold. They were part of the batch that were seized / stolen back (tbh I’m fuzzy on the details). We’ve since given her a happy life and a family, but I feel a little morbid that fate could’ve swayed the other way and they would’ve been someone’s dinner.
There still exist absolute traditionalist peasantry, unbending even during Mao and the Cultural Revolution, and even unchanged by how much money they earn, where they still maintain their own culture and habits, which includes consuming certain animals for their supposed medicinal and libidinous properties. Yeah, to those people, a dog is a dog that can be killed for dinner… and washed down with beer.
I’m sorry but this line is so absurd i can’t stop laughing
Anyway, this is a matter on the levels of disable someone
The article title and body don’t match in the amount of the sale:
sold for US$25
He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.
I mean, not that it’s that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don’t match.
180 yuan right now is $26.59. Given the headline only reports the conversion which changes, it’s arguably better to round it as they did to convey a general point rather than the exact specific amount of dollars.
Edit: Looking at it now, the conversion rate seems reasonably stable, so I wonder if they still rounded it just for simplicity’s sake.
Eating Dog? In modern day China?
searches
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades
Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.
Sounds like it.
Yes. People eat dogs shocker.
So dog meat is affordable?
looks at my cockapoo
You already own the cockapoo, so only you can say how affordable its meat is
My lab was $500. Discount doggy. But his alive value is immeasurable.
Rupert† was only $60. But we have fed him for something like 8 years. So that’s a pretty large investment for a meal. And if you see my posts over on c/cooking you will know that I am always calculating the cost of a meal.
Your lab has a lot more than $500 in them. Don’t undervalue them. I don’t think lab is suitable for breakfast, lunch or brunch. Have people over for dinner and charge a reasonable amount.
† aka I wasn’t letting my wife make him Giles.
This comment, hopefully, is solidly sarcasm.
My yorkshire terrier has horrible price to weight ratio. He was about 18000 sek as a puppy, with a weight of less than half a kilo. As I fed him to full weight, he stopped growing muscles at around 3 kilos.
Would not recommend as a food species. I kept him alive and now, 11 years later, I can say that he has been fully acceptable as a pet instead.
I hope he shared which restaurant the dog was sold to. I suspect the place would be burnt to the ground.
Really? Not John Wick?
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