I feel this title is offensive (no humor) though welcoming discussion on Chinese diet or menu.
SOME of us eat dog or cat (Cantonese mostly) or snake or mule or horse or deer. Or some of u don't eat pork or beef. That's your/our personal choice, which the gvnmt shouldn't interfere in unless with a strong justification like hygiene...
Personally I ate dogs and snakes and deer before. That was delicious. Long ago there was a fuss over that Koreans ate dogs. Now again!
ohimalaya,
The phrase 'dog eat dog world' is used to connote a fictional environment in which people live solely for their own interests, and go to the extent of hurting other people to achieve them. It is not being used to insinuate anything about the Chinese's detritus-eating habits- atleast not on this forum.
Personally, I don't think people should give a f^ck about what the Chinese people eat. I'm a big fan of leatherback turtle, gator and caribou. When I'm training, I'm on a diet of goat's blood and gruel. And pheasant, buffalo and wild boar are regularly on my table. Does that make me a turd-eating, dredge-drinking motherfvcker?
On the other hand, I know in some parts of my country, frog's legs, turtle, fieldmice, rabbit, hare and antelope (the latter of which, tamed jackals are used to hunt in the jungles of central India) are delicacies. I do not consider my people an alien race based purely upon the type of meat they eat.
"One man's food is another man's poison", said Lucretius in
De Rerum Natura. Yet, "give to each man, what he will eat".
If I am not mistaken, all the meat we eat are of Vegetarian Animals. Dog is far away in that case! Check out the teeth of the animals we eat, and that of the Dog. Filipinos too eat Dog and Cats, and there is a shortage of stray dogs in Manila i have read. Its not weird, its just that its repulsive to some. But yeah, china should stick to their culture, if eating dogs it is!
A word of note, in the Phillipines, dog meat is considered 'poor food', and it is increasingly reserved to the poorer classes who cannot afford chicken or bovine or pork.