Comments on: Meat, or man’s best friend? https://www.policyforum.net/meat-mans-best-friend/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Hugh https://www.policyforum.net/meat-mans-best-friend/#comment-7378 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 03:10:45 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=11737#comment-7378 It’s not just a matter of what species they are eating, it’s how they treat them. From what I understand the dogs are often beaten savagely and cooked alive because of a misguided belief that eating the meat of animals that suffered before death strengthens one’s spirit. This practice is not limited to dogs, many other animals are treated this way.

That’s a far bigger problem than the fact that it’s a dog, which quite frankly is no more deserving of protection than a cow or a pig.

The challenge is that it is not a mainstream view in china that animals are sentient, that must be overcome before animal protection law has a chance of emerging. Quite frankly plenty of people in the west still don’t believe in animal sentience and so are completely unbothered by the cruel conditions in which we farm animals. It’s going to be a long fight.

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