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Throughout the world, one of the most familiar animals to humans is dogs. In Korea, however, some people enjoy eating dog meat for their health or because it just tastes good. On the other hand, in western countries, they raise dogs as pets, so they regard their dog as one of their family and they can't imagine eating dog meat.

There's more than a whiff of cultural supremacy, if not racism, in French attacks on Korean dog-eating. When Bardot's radio interviewer told her that some Western visitors eat dog meat in Korea, she replied: 'French people, German people, and Americans never eat dogs. If they did, it is most likely that South Koreans served them dog meat, saying it was either pork or beef.' A French state TV channel recently supports Bardot's campaign. ridiculed Korean dog-eating in a piece full of distortions.

Never mind that some Frenchmen eat horse meat or snails or that, according to a Seoul waitress, more than one staffer from the French Embassy has sated his canine tooth at her restaurant. Norwegians didn't stop eating reindeer during the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.

American restaurants didn't stop serving bull testicles during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. No one forced Spain to outlaw cat stew during the 1982 World Cup, and no one is hounding Japan, the co-host of this year's World Cup, to shut down its sushi bars.

To justify keeping the industry underground, unsafe, and inhumane, activists ought to have a pretty good reason why dog-eating? as opposed to the eating of other animals, which they tolerate? is too horrible to legalize.

But what is that reason? Since dogs aren't smarter or more gentle than pigs, for example, anti-dog-meat activists argue that dogs are special because they're 'pets' and 'companion' animals. Bardot told a Korean radio interviewer. 'Cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs.'

Strip out Bardot's silly arrogance and her Korean colleagues' sentimentality, and their philosophy boils down to this: The value of an animal depends on how you treat it. If you be friend it, it's a friend. If you raise it for food, it's food.

This relativism is more dangerous than the absolutism of vegetarians or even of thoughtful carnivores. You can abstain from meat because you believe that the mental capacity of animals is too close to that of humans.

You can eat meat because you believe that it isn't. Either way, you're using a fixed standard. But if you refuse to eat only the meat of 'companion' animals? chewing bacon, for example, while telling Koreans that they can't stew Dalmatians? you're saying that the morality of killing depends on habit or even whim. until recently, dogs haven't been pets.

Therefore, by the 'companion' standard, it's OK to eat them. In fact, the 'companion' standard is exactly what South Korean newspapers and government officials are using to justify an emerging system of dog Nazism. In the city, Koreans raise 'pet dogs.' In the country, they raise 'meat dogs,' also known as 'junk dogs' and 'lower-grade' dogs. But you don't become a 'lower-grade' dog by flunking an IQ test.

You're just born in the wrong place. Then you're slaughtered and fed to a man who thinks he's humane because he pampers a Golden Retriever that has half your brains. And Bardot, who says that cows can be butchered because they're 'grown to be eaten,' can't fault this arrangement.

Q1) Have you ever raised a dog? Please tell me about your experiences.

Q2) Have you ever eaten a dog meat? How did you feel it?

Q3) When people ask to you "can you eat a dog?" Your answer is honest or not?

Q4) Men ate dog to fill up protein in the past. but these days, we can take in nutrition from other foods. What do you think of eating dog up to now?

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