Barkinpark

This is absolutely disgusting. Please spread the word:

http://loyaltylobby.com/2017/06/20/d...n/?omhide=true

Doc Savage

Take a bite outta crime!


I think if you read the blog post a little more closely, they're not selling it as chicken, it's just that the unaware don't know to ask and don't know what the signs signify.

Think of it as an unexpected cultural experience.

CrazyInteg

At least it's not presented with the foot still on it. Avoid Spain, spread the word. Poor little pigs.

Jamón ibérico

invisible

In early 90s, on farmers markets in Russia/Ukraine for rabbits on sale it was common practice to leave one foot unskinned. Just to reassure a potential buyer that the 'rabbit' was not mewing before brought to the market.

dsquared37

What's disgusting about it? It's no different than slaughtering a pig or cow for its flesh. Oh, poor Fido. But he tasted so good.

Though it can be sinewy and the Vietnamese think if you eat too much of it you'll go crazy.

The first time I had dog it was indeed skewers I'd ordered from a cart in Bagan Myanmar - thinking it was chicken.

Taiwaned

This was my exact same experience except it was in China not Vietnam.

Didn't stop me from going back the next day. After a while it doesn't bother you anymore.

IAN-UK

But they're not selling dog-as-chicken.

Indeed they'd be unlikely to do so: someone told me that dog meat is (relatively) expensive and so unlikely to replace chicken, unless of course it was road kill....

trooper

Ok...I'm confused..... are you against the use of pigs for food at all... OR... is it the presentation reminding you that you ARE eating an animal that concerns you?

If the foot was off....would that then be OK?

I find that hard to understand. Eating meat but refusing to ackniowledge it is a dead animal is a very strange modern development.....

WilcoRoger

The quoted article said

"Often it’s sold with the word “satay,” and the sellers allow tourists to presume it’s chicken."

“Tourists will walk down a street, they’ll see a street store selling satay but what they are not realising is the letters RW on the store mean it is dog meat being served,”

So they do not sell dog-as-chicken

tentseller

Satay means skewered grilled meat, the term does not specify which meat.

Zolex

Typical scare tactics from this animal welfare group. Nobody is going to sell you "satay anjing (dog)" as "satay ayam (chicken)", wouldn't worry too much about it. But yes some people in Bali do eat dog, so what? I advice those people stop being so hypocrytical, in some parts of India they would find it immoral if you eat beef, in the Muslim and Jewish cultures they would find it immoral if you eat pork (among other things). Western people who try to stop this aren't any better than for example Muslims in Europe who want every school to only serve halal food.

YVR Cockroach

"One man's pet is another's livestock" has been said somewhere before, maybe even here.

My wife and I were at a market in Mainz a few years back when we went to line up at a stand selling sausages. As we got closer, she noticed it was "pferdewurst" and digging back into her memories as a child of Austrian parents, she quicklyrealised it was horse sausage.....

Seen dog butchered in Seoul and Guangzhou but that was back in the '80s.


I was reading in a British paper that one U.K. food/meat processor has switched to Halal because it's becoming more see and thus popular by the British general public as a guarantee of the meat source after the horsemeat scandal of a year or two ago, and more humane slaughter. I'd buy Halal meat except it's often frozen where I am and I like to buy meat on sale (Halal is costlier).

WilcoRoger

Exactly - no reason to "presume" it's chicken. And if the RW sign is displayed even less.

So no dog seem to have been sold as chicken.

tentseller

However, there are unscrupulous vendors who substitute chicken for dog.

CrazyInteg

Relevant news story:

http://nypost.com/2017/07/03/whole-f...ed-as-chicken/

Whole Foods sold tuna salad that was labelled as chicken in the United States.