Prohibition of Eating Companion Animals



Thousands of dogs may have died today.  The equipments to perform the butchery could be the electric shocker, which is commonly believed as the most cruel butchering device, or the conventional method, which the stubborn farmers still use.  The current generations have inherited the inevitable habit of eating dogs from the past by spectating of opening dog-meat restaurants in everywhere in our country.  And protesting dog-meat eating is even considered as flunkeyism. 

Even though the methods of killing animals can be changed, the essence of dog-meat eating cannot be changed or the suffering of people who protest against dog-meat eating cannot be reduced.  (The expression, "beating someone like beating a dog" is the symbol of the violence).

There are many pieces of evidence of the brutal traditions of cannibalism among some tribes.  However, they cannot be considered as being different from our tradition of justifying dog-meat eating.  The tendency to consider the people, who protest dog-meat eating, as narrow-minded is the instinctive attempt to reduce the guilt coming from the brutal tradition of dog-meat eating.

In the past, our ancestors used the superficially and exaggeratively brutal methods to cut the sympathy for the lives that they loved and cared when they killed their own dogs for eating.  However, we should not keep the tradition without the universal view of life or symbiotic view on nature that our ancestors had.

We need to find out when and how we started to perceive dog-meat eating as our national culture and the root of this perception without prejudice.  Then our choice will be obvious.

The majority of supporting the legalization of dog-meat eating might believe that legalizing the issue will minimize the suffering that dogs go though.  However, it will result in holding or magnifying the suffering and conflict and passing on the problems of dog-meat eating to the next generations.

In some countries, people eat dog-meat.  And, in other countries, so many private shelters for abandoned dogs are available without parallel in history.  If the essential problems of dog-meat eating continue to be covered up, the burden and agony that small number of animal lovers have to take will be intensified.

It is not easy that each individual has the right point of view on dog-meat eating under the current atmosphere in our society.  However, it is the most effective and important part of resolving the problem.  Therefore, even one person who sees the essence of the problem should not neglect the battle that dogs and some sacrificing individuals have to take.  This will form the public opinions and emancipate dogs and animal lovers from the suffering.

Those who eat dog-meat would admit that the reason of eating dog-meat is not to preserve the national culture or do some national acts such as an independence movement.  And those who only focus on their own dogs' well-beings but are indifferent to all other dogs should reflect upon their double standards.

Having dogs join in the group of animals who are eaten by human is coming from nationalism of grandiose delusion and human-centered thinking.  The two should disappear in our society in order to achieve the societal agreement and unity.