"SEOUL (AFP) - The Seoul city government is seeking to classify man's best friend as livestock in order to set food safety standards for South Korean lovers of dogmeat, officials say.
"Somewhere between two and four million dogs are estimated to be consumed in South Korea every year but the slaughtering and processing is carried out in dirty environments and poses a risks (sic) to diners' health, they said.
"Since dogs are not currently classified as livestock there are no hygiene regulations on their slaughter, officials said."
I remember a buddy and I coming up on what looked like a dog ranch while bicycling in the Korean countryside. It was a strange situation and we just moved on. Was it a kennel or a ranch? I don't know. Some of the foreigners over there seemed to worry that they would accidentally wind up eating dog. As I understood it, "Kaegogi" (dogmeat), is more of a delicacy and more expensive. Based on that I figured I never really ate any. I guess if I did eat it, it tasted like beef. Before this item I hadn't realized it was such a polarizing issue for Koreans.
Anger as Seoul Aims to Reclassify Dogmeat
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Korea Wants to Classify Dogs as Livestock
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Monster Bunnies For North Korea
An east German breeder who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.
It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.
Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients."
Friday, February 9, 2007
A Year in Pyongyang
Andrew Holloway lived for a year in Pyongyang, North Korea. I haven't read it yet but am starting...
www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
RoboCop 1.0
Samsung has developed a machine-gun equipped robot sentry that is scheduled to be deployed on the DMZ between South and North Korea. The announcement is interesting but the comments below the story are hilarious.
www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php
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