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“You will eat ze bugs”

South Korean dog meat farmers are facing international pressure to end their family farms. I suspect most people will see their plight as being wholly different than the Irish dairy farmers, being forced to cull their herds. I’m just not sure why that should be so. A ruling elite within one country bending to International values, beliefs, and obligations pass laws to sacrifice the local for the sake of meeting those international interests. One is pollution the other animal treatment. I am intrigued by the comparative question, anyone interested in discussing? Is the only difference that we agree with one value and are the majority and not the other? Does that make it ok?

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-dog-meat-ban-farmers-46393dbe07060cb5fa4861e1552899e5

#philosophy #ethics #2030 #grownostr #international

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Buddy Lindsey 2y ago

This is interesting because for the west it is a look at how we treat animals other cultures think are sacred.

Specifically cows. We raise them for meat, but in India not so much.

For us we are not happy at the idea of raising dogs for meat.

While I personally wouldn’t do it as I love dogs. I am not against others doing it. Especially since at the end of the day they are animals.

However if they are CAFO style farms that i specifically have a problem with, just like here.

DefiantDandelion 2y ago

Yes I would expect it’s a particular challenge to operate a dog meat farm not as a CAFO.

It’s an interesting mind bending problem to solve. As predators, making an integrated farm would require making prey available for the dogs to hunt and be challenged by without stressing them from over population. You would probably need to raise and sell the prey animal as a primary product and sell the predator as a by product that feeds on the culls, chosen by the farmer, according to maintaining the herd genetics and health where the meat would otherwise be low quality as sick animals?