http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010328/od/dogs_dc.html
Please. These guys have to be kidding, right?
Jois
I’t so tame compared to http://www.manbeef.com
Well, Snopes seems to think it’s true.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/bernard.htm
Check out Drain Bead’s Dog–It’s What’s For Dinner thread from last summer.
If that’s what they want to eat, so be it. Who is anyone to push their values onto another culture? In this country, dog is man’s best friend so we are especially turned off by such news. However, as the snopes article says, Hindus “worship” cows and we devour them like there’s no tomorrow. When my cousin had a pet bunny as a child, his father, an immigrant from South Italy who lived on a farm most of his life, couldn’t understand why this animal was in the bedroom living a pampered life instead stewing in the kitchen pot?
What does upset me, although I would assume it is mostly bunk, is the mention in the snopes article that the dogs are tortured so that the meat is somehow more enjoyable. I believe this was thrown into the poorly written petition to elicit emotion.
A Chinese man whom I tutored a few years back did tell me that in his country dogs were eaten primarily during the cold season for purposes of warmth and not as a round the year item.
What’s so wrong about eating dog? Dog is eaten in the Philippines and while we’ll joke about it, someone knows someone else who has eaten it. It’s just another animal.
Beef???
I thought all cannibals referred to humans as “long pigs”…
Still seems pretty yukko to me.
Jois
Dog is commonly eaten here in Korea. It’s a “stamina” food. IE: it’s supposed to give you a lot of sexual energy…
I tried it one time when I first got here, IMHO not very good & too fatty! Didn’t have any luck picking up women that night, though, so I can’t attest to the sexual energy bit… 
I’ve also heard it’s very fatty also. I think in the Philippines it’s used when you arent able to buy chicken or pork or beef (not sure on that). Especially since you can just pick one of the dogs that run around the cities up and take it home for dinner quite easily :). However, it’s not something you’d find at the average dinner table.
My experience in Vietnam is that although dog is sometimes eaten, it is something which repulses most Vietnamese.
In any event, it is considered a delicacy by those who like it, and as such it is a relatively expensive meat. Therefore, there is little basis by the concerns of Westerners in Vietnam that “I just went to a restaurant in Saigon, and I don’t think that was beef”. Any underhanded substitution would likely be at the expense of somebody who’d actually ordered dog.
And eating a Loaded Dog would be very unwise. 