Dog meat off Chinese menus during upcoming Beijing Olympics
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Unacceptable!! I need my sweet’n’sour Pekinese!!
July 11, 2008
By The Associated Press
BEIJING - Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month’s Beijing Olympic Games.
The Xinhua News Agency reports dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants.
Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs.
Dog, known in Chinese as “xiangrou,” or “fragrant meat,” is eaten by some Chinese for its purported healthy qualities.
Beijing isn’t the first Olympic host to slap a ban on the dish.
South Korea banned dog meat during the 1988 Seoul Olympics by invoking a law prohibiting the sale of “foods deemed unsightly.”
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awong
11:38 am | Jul 11, 2008i guess they have to make chinese “look” more civilized by stopping people form eating dog
TheMac
10:54 am | Jul 12, 2008As much money that’s being spent by the government to ‘prepare’ China for the games…this should be viewed as an economic move IMO. I’m almost always for chasing out Europeans.
ellencho
2:48 am | Jul 13, 2008They did that for the Seoul Olympics in 88.
TheMac
10:24 am | Jul 13, 2008*CASHING out Europeans. Now that makes (somewhat) sense.
99999
11:09 am | Jul 14, 2008I wonder what would happen if india asked western nations to not eat cows??? and if middle eastern countries told us not to eat pork???
TheMac
4:14 pm | Jul 14, 2008“I wonder what would happen if india asked western nations to not eat cows??? and if middle eastern countries told us not to eat pork???”
If they asked that for purely economic reasons (not socio-religious)…and it was a temporary thing (not major life change)…and it only applied to restaurants in tourist areas, not what you can buy in your supermarket and/or hometown…then I’d be equally as non-chalant.