• T156@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Am I missing something?

    Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.

    The article just ends after this part:

    Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.

    Checking the archive didn’t turn up any more of the article.

  • Vandalismo@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I’m sorry but this line is so absurd i can’t stop laughing

    Anyway, this is a matter on the levels of disable someone

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        19 days ago

        Depends on how you view the food chain. If you’re against eating mean for environmental reasons, carnivores are much more unethical then eating herbivores.

        I’ve never understood the idea of farming carnivores for meat because of how much more costly the process must be.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          19 days ago

          Dogs can live fine on a vegetarian diet, and pigs will happily eat meat or predate. They’re both highly social omnivores. Most likely, they get the same kind of food when farmed, too.

          The comparison gets more difficult to prove with cows, and a lot more difficult for chickens. But, a pig is almost the same animal ecologically, and people have pet pigs that live in their house just like a dog.

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      19 days ago

      Welcome to China’s huge gap between cities and some rural areas. Where the parents (from where the dog was stolen) live, there may not have been a market for a pet.

      But restaurants have needs all the time.

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    20 days ago

    There still exist absolute traditionalist peasantry, unbending even during Mao and the Cultural Revolution, and even unchanged by how much money they earn, where they still maintain their own culture and habits, which includes consuming certain animals for their supposed medicinal and libidinous properties. Yeah, to those people, a dog is a dog that can be killed for dinner as livestock… and washed down with beer.

  • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    Billions of animals murdered for food every year: 😊
    Celebrity doggo eaten: 🤬😤😡

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      19 days ago

      “We eat large mammalian quadrupeds, so we’re civilised. They eat large mammalian quadrupeds, so they’re barbaric”

      Being mad they eat bugs is basically chauvanism too, but at least it’s taxonomically coherent.

      Honestly dog meat is on it’s way out just from Western influence anyway.

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    18 days ago

    I saw a video of the guy crying in his car after confronting the people who kidnapped his dog and sold it.

    Heartbreaking. He might just go John wick on their ass.

    They stole his beloved pet and sold it to be slaughtered.

    Most people see their pets as family. How would you feel if someone did that to your pet or family member you loved?

    It’s enough to make someone go on a vengeance spree. It really is.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Makes me wonder if there is some kind of food shortage we’re not hearing about. Eating dogs is one thing, but the stealing of pets to use as meat sounds like a form of desperation.

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      19 days ago

      Nah, I don’t think people on a bike stealing a dog care if it was a pet or not.

      Our dog is a rescue from South Korea and seemed to be from a dog farm, as well as our friends dog was for sure rescued from a dog meat producer.

      They have a different view of what is acceptable eating animals in the East compared to West.

      So a random dog in a field seems like easy prey.