North Korea and dog meat eating
In 2018, USA Today published an article entitled 'It's healthier than other kinds of meat': North Koreans eat dog meat to beat the heat.[1] The USA Today article declares: "In North Korea, summer is not a good time to be a dog."[2]
The Express reported in 2016:
| “ | North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un wants his famished people to eat more dogs because it is “stamina food”, according to local reports.
To make the pet meat even tastier, dogs should be beaten, flayed and then scorched, says the reviled despot. Cooked dog – called “dangogi” or sweet meat in Korean – is also being described to the country’s starving masses as having more vitamins than chicken, pork, beef and duck as well as having medicinal benefit for the stomach and intestines. Famine in the communist dictatorship, the result of floods and droughts as well as economic management failings, has been blamed for the deaths of up to 300,000 people during 1990s. Feeding dog to the starving masses is one answer to its food shortages, and the country’s heavily-controlled media appears to have been given the nod from on high to promote canine meat. North Korea’s answer to a reality cookery show has been recently witnessing contestants creating dishes out of the animals, while in the capital of Pyongyang a dog meat restaurant recently opened.[3] |
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Atheists and dog meat eating
See also: Atheists and dog meat eating
North Korea practices state atheism and belief in God is actively discouraged.[4]
See also
- Atheists and dog meat eating
- Communist China and cat meat eating
- Vietnam and dog meat eating
- Atheism and animal abuse
- Irreligion and the treatment of horses
- Atheism and cannibalism
- Atheists eat babies meme
- Atheism and bestiality
References
- ↑ 'It’s healthier than other kinds of meat': North Koreans eat dog meat to beat the heat, USA Today, July 25, 2018
- ↑ 'It’s healthier than other kinds of meat': North Koreans eat dog meat to beat the heat, USA Today, July 25, 2018
- ↑ Now Kim Jong-un wants North Koreans to eat DOG for 'stamina food', Express, August 16, 2016
- ↑ Elizabeth Raum. North Korea. Series: Countries Around the World. Heinemann, 2012. ISBN 1432961330. p. 28: «North Korea is an atheist state. This means that people do not pray in public or attend places of worship. Buddhist temples exist from earlier times. They are now preserved as historic buildings, but they are not used for worship. A few Christian churches exist, but few people attend services. North Koreans do not celebrate religious holidays.»
