This is for all the clueless, ethnocentric people who keep asking me if people eat dogs here... First of all, it's primarily a Vietnamese/Korean thing. Second, if you lived in a country with so many people, do you think you might consider alternative food sources when the regular ones were scarce or unavailable...or your food supply was unhealthy? Also, people should realize that the entire world evolving. When people are in the same nation or near developed nations, they usually develop along with them, but China has been isolationist for 4960 of it's 5,000 years of history. The majority know little or nothing about the world outside China...partly because they have no resources and partly because they are intentionally denied. But they are evolving too and, just like in the US, pets are becoming taboo to eat, but it is a slow road to changing these countries with 20x more history than our own. So just remember the next time you go to criticize someone... They are not you, they are not in the same state of evolution, they have not had the opportunity, security, freedom or legal protection you have had and, in many cases, have no functioning legal system at all. But they will evolve... You might want to exercise some patience and maybe even offer to help them evolve, instead of criticizing and vilifying them for things they may not even know is wrong yet. Before people point the finger at others, they should be very well aware of that person's situation and, when you criticize people but don't talk to them, you're in no position to do so. Let's work for peace and unity...instead of being divisive, rude and bigoted. There is no positive outcome in that, whatsoever. (y)

This is for all the clueless, ethnocentric people who keep asking me if people eat dogs here... First of all, it's primarily a Vietnamese/Korean thing. Second, if you lived in a country with so many people, do you think you might consider alternative food sources when the regular ones were scarce or unavailable...or your food supply was unhealthy? Also, people should realize that the entire world evolving. When people are in the same nation or near developed nations, they usually develop along with them, but China has been isolationist for 4960 of it's 5,000 years of history. The majority know little or nothing about the world outside China...partly because they have no resources and partly because they are intentionally denied. But they are evolving too and, just like in the US, pets are becoming taboo to eat, but it is a slow road to changing these countries with 20x more history than our own. So just remember the next time you go to criticize someone... They are not you, they are not in the same state of evolution, they have not had the opportunity, security, freedom or legal protection you have had and, in many cases, have no functioning legal system at all. But they will evolve... You might want to exercise some patience and maybe even offer to help them evolve, instead of criticizing and vilifying them for things they may not even know is wrong yet. Before people point the finger at others, they should be very well aware of that person's situation and, when you criticize people but don't talk to them, you're in no position to do so. Let's work for peace and unity...instead of being divisive, rude and bigoted. There is no positive outcome in that, whatsoever. (y) - A retired school teacher and animal advocate saved the lives of 100 dogs on Saturday after she paid about $1,100 to save them from an annual dog meat festival in the southern Chinese city of Yulin.