Yulun The Dog Meat Eating Tradition Analysis

In the article, “Let Them Eat Dog,” Jonathan Foer sheds light on a controversial topic, the consumption and breeding of dogs for food. Throughout Foer’s article he uses many different argumentative tactics in order to capture the reader’s attention on whether or not eating dogs should be considered morally. He uses three emotional tactics to establish his credibility and prove he knows the topic. The three tactics are ethos, pathos and logos Foer uses these three argumentative tools to convey his message across not only to prove eating dogs is wrong, but to take a stance on a bigger issue, the slaughtering of animals.

Through the use of anecdotes in the article “A Savage Life”, Suzanne Winckler effectively points out that it is important to understand where your food comes from. Winckler helps convey to readers that while butchering animals is no fun, it is necessary for the survival of omnivores. She argues that meat-eaters are out of touch with reality; instead of recognizing that an animal must be sacrificed for their meal, most consumers mindlessly devour the food on their plates – without a thought of where their food came from. Winckler states “I am too far gone in my rational Western head to appropriate the ritual of cultures for whom the bloody business of hunting was a matter of survival” (634); in this statement she adequately appeals to logos

People tend to have various eating habits, but why do people consider eating dogs different from eating other animal meats? An American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer in his article called “Let Them Eat Dogs” argues that people should eat dog meat if they eat pigs, cows, and chickens as they have same capacities, they are all good companions and eating dogs is not taboo everywhere. Even though the way he defends this point is quite reasonable, in this essay I will give reasons why this might not always be the case. This paper will focus on a cultural taboo aspect of Foer’s argument which states that people should eat dogs because eating dogs is not taboo everywhere and it does not harm people in any way. However, people do not necessarily have to eat dog meat since based on our cultural practices, eating dogs is not the same as eating other animal, even though Foer argues that.

Word choice in the restaurant industry is important. By labeling something as “tortured”, the restaurant or community would have to view it as so and it would not be tolerated. Using words to persuade consumers of what they’re buying is only a marketing ploy, but by not using certain language, a restaurant refuses to acknowledge what is really taking place and preventing a label to take hold on a product. Viewing a dog as a pet and not a crop is a part of American culture, and in other places it is the opposite. Although other countries have opposite views, the meat and fur industry seem to be especially horrendous to animals, compared to other cultures where the same animal is used as a product, but it is also a gift or even a

I read this article called “The Argument of Eating Dog” written by John Sutter. In the article, Sutter argues that the treatment of the dogs is cruel, that people living in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam shouldn’t eat such intelligent and lovable creatures. I do agree that dogs shouldn’t be treated cruelly on their way to slaughter. However, this is happening in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Here in America, we find it repulsive and unthinkable to eat a dog, just as Muslims find it disgusting to eat a pig.

There are a few idiot writers among us who try to push this notion that protesting Yulin, south Korea or pressuring China to end the dog meat trade is wrong and we should back off.

We are currently writing a story about Marc Ching alleged connection with you in producing a documentary about the inhumane and hideous Yulin Dog Meat festival and/or The dog meat trade in general

What every reporter who opines over Marc Chings claim that he and he alone brought worldwide attention to the horrors perpetrated in Yulin and the dog meat industry as a whole, neglects to mention is the fact that before the 2016 Yulin Festival all the killing and slaughtering was done out in the open.

If AnimalsAsia is correct that means Marc Ching is personally responsible for killing almost as many dogs as the Yulin festival

Without an animal protection law and without the local government enforcing strict security supervision, we cannot stop the dog slaughtering. While we push for animal protection legislation, we have to face the helpless truth that large number of animals will be killed. In the meantime we need the existing laws and regulations to be used.

Since 2009, the summer solstice condemns thousands of dogs and cats to a gruesome, horrific death. Many of these pets had been stolen from families who loved them.

To my utter shock and disbelief, not one word about those 400 million Chinese seeing nothing wrong with cutting off limbs to make dog leg soup, or nailing cats and dogs to the wall with nail guns or throwing them alive into a boiling pot of water or oil, because of some backward Chinese sick belief that torture is some sort of ancient Chinese tenderizing method and the more horrendous the torture the better the meat will

Americans fail to realize there is no taboo against eating dog, and it is not illegal to slaughter a dog and eat it. Until the world started becoming aware of the practice around ten years ago and around 2010 really started protesting the inhumanity of what they were doing, to the Chinese people, dogs were similar to a piece of fruit hanging on a tree or a vegetable growing in the ground. Dogs were unfeeling things that you just ate. The real outcry was over the fact that the Chinese people believed torturing a dog was basically a form of tenderizing the meat.

Pets can fill a void in an owner’s life, by allowing them to nurture something and receive a sense of satisfaction. Socially pets have become so much a part of our daily lives that they are often treated as if they were children, some lucky pets even attend daily play sessions, and are treated to extreme indulgence; all to make their owner feel as if they were an infant or a child. Blind owners rely on their seeing eye dogs to guide them around wherever they go; they are trained to guide them past and around obstacles. The National Institute of Health states, “More than half of all U.S. households have a companion animal. Pets are more common in households with children, yet there are more pets than children in American households. There are more than 51 million dogs, 56 million cats, 45 million birds, 75 million small mammals and reptiles, and uncounted millions of aquarium fish” (np). Many movie stars and rich and famous people have begun using pets as a status symbol. Millions of dollars are spent finding the perfect and most valuable pet even to the extent that the original breed of animal has become unrecognizable or even extinct. This need for high status and perfection has resulted in safety risks to both pets and the people they live with. Inbreeding and tampering with cross genes in animals often result in an animal of inferior security and emotional stability, thus resulting in an aggressive and violent temperament. In an attempt to

It is evident that people have very strong feelings about killing domesticated animals. Contrastingly, many do not have any feelings when it comes to killing livestock. Speciesism, as described by veganism.com, is “discrimination against those who are not classified as belonging to one or more particular species.” The term has multiple meanings but basically describes how humans pick and choose which animals to love and let live, or to ignore and kill. An example of this is the notorious Yulin festival. This festival is “an annual 10-day event where over 10,000 dogs are eaten.” Indicated by the independent.co.uk news site. Cat meat is also sold