Do nations with large dog eating populations still have dogs as pets?
Worldwide over 25 million dogs are eaten legally in non-emergency conditions by humans every year. Dogs are most popular in Chinese cuisine. China accounts for 40% of all dogs sold for culinary purposes, with South Korean as a close 2nd.
Having said that, I'm curious if the countries that consider dogs a normal part of their diet also keep them as pets?
I'm asking because I have a job where almost everyone I interact with was born in raised in such places and to my knowledge the ones who have pets only have cats, though it could be a coincidence.
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America has a large pork eating population, yet some breeds of pig are kept as pets and some individuals of breeds normally raised for food may be pets.
The same species -- and the same breed -- may be meat animal, work animal, lab animal, pet. It isn't even unheard of for a single animal to occupy more than one of these roles at different times in its life.
Many American city-dwellers don't like thinking about that. Sorry.
I worked with a man from South Korea, he said that people keep cats and dogs as pets and those are not eaten. They have large dog farms (like our cattle farms) for eating, I would assume same goes for cats but he only talked about dogs.
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