Why dog meat is so popular

[yang88]

Dear cecil,
Being a animal lover. I have to know this. Why do chinese people eat dog meat. Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. Not all overseas Chinese eat dog meat. Especially the `English' educated or if they are staying in a more affluent country away from China.
2. In Hong Kong, it is still common for Chinese to eat dogs. These dogs are specially breed to be slaughtered unlike pet dogs.
If you do go to a Chinese food store, or those that do stock Chinese canned food, it is equally common to find `Rabbit's meat'.
To some of us, rabbits are considered pets and no way we want to eat them.
3. Like sharks fins, abalone, some Chinese find it a delicacy to eat dog's meat.
There are even some Chinese shows that `suggest' that when these people eat dog's meat, when they go near to dogs, these dogs get `frighten' as they smell of some one eating their kind.
Thus, in my opinion, it is hard to explain such things. For some it may even be `mancho' stuff or masculine stuff to `decare' that they had eaten something out of the extraordinary.
As I have never eaten them, frankly, and honestly, I am unable to explain or even comprehen why these people eat these cute pets as I am also a dog lover.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 5/31/00 12:21:00 AM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear cecil,
Being a animal lover. I have
to know this. Why do chinese
people eat dog meat. Thanks.