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Dog Meat in Korea: A Socio-Legal Challenge

“…Questions of legitimacy are colored by deeply held, often overwhelmingly subjective and ill-informed, 222 personal convictions. 223 These must be avoided. They are not only useless, but dangerous-they give further incentive to defend dog-eating as part of Korean culture.…”

“…230 Certain cultural practices involving animals are on the wane; for example, bullfighting in Barcelona 231 and fox hunting with hounds in the UK, 232 which are "seen by a growing majority of the population as an anachronistic, brutal, and unnecessary means of killing animals." 233 Although dog-eating is an intrinsically different issue to bullfighting and fox hunting because the slaughter of dogs can be done humanely without unnecessary suffering, it remains a fact that not all foods are viewed equally, and certain culinary practices among industrialized countries are also on the wane. "Cat, which was once eaten in parts of Spain, can no longer be found on the menu there; smoked dog ham and dried dog meat were once popular in Switzerland but no longer."…”