I've lived in different countries while growing up in a military family, stationed in different countries when I was a U.S. military soldier and lived in different countries after the military.
Every culture has traditions I dislike and like. Every culture has foods I hate and like.
Yet, considering we're talking about immigrants and migrants eating pets...the Asian culture is a well-known culture for eating dogs.
The dog meat trade is most widespread in China, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Nagaland in northern India. This trade is well-organized, with high numbers of dogs being stolen or taken from the streets, transported over long distances and brutally slaughtered.
I've never been to Laos and Viet Nam but my old man did when he was an officer in the VietNam War...he talked about "dog farms" and the slaughter of dogs in front of soldiers...then later sold as food in the clubs frequent by U.S. soldiers along with other types of meats.
Today, China and South Korea have
banned "dog farms" and banned the eating of dogs. In the early 90's when I was stationed in South Korea...
+1 million dogs were killed each year for food and sold at stores and peddled on the streets at food marts.
Yet, a small percentage of the population in China and South Korea still eat dogs because they believe dog meat is an important food source for medicinal properties and aphrodisiac properties.
I recently had friends visit me here in Quebec, Canada from South Korea...a former high-ranking South Korean military soldier and his family. Dog meat is still sold at markets and eaten...you just need to know where to go buy it and recognize the smell...it's very distinctive.
They were transporting their granddaughter to the University of Michigan.
I can say now...I know one eater of dogs who is a freshman student at the University of Michigan but she only eats it in her native country (South Korea)...
not from Springfield, Ohio.
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