Eating with the Dog Thieves of Cambodia

Down a dark alley in one of Phnom Penh’s least affluent suburbs thick, meaty smoke billows out from a long row of food joints. Beneath the corrugated tin roofs, men huddle around beer-soaked tables lit up by fluorescent lights. The choice is limited: a couple of salads and dips to go with the only source of protein – dog.

”We come here maybe twice a week” says one patron, feasting on some dog intestines and ribs with his friends. ”I like it a lot. It has a really sweet and delicious taste.”

Until recently, eating dog had never been a big thing in Cambodia in the way that it is in other East Asian countries like Vietnam, China and Korea. Now, however, more and more Cambodians appear to crave this controversial meat.



”It’s become very popular, especially here in Phnom Penh” says Pheakadey, who owns one of the alley’s dog joints. ”It’s very delicious, and it also has some medicinal qualities. It’s good for the man’s virility.”

With a rising demand for dog meat, restauranteurs like Pheakadey have to rely on informal sources to supply the meat. Along with the Cambodian appetite for dogs, a black market of stolen pets and street dogs has emerged.

”We buy some of our dogs from the dog thieves” Pheakadey admits. ”Every day we have people bring us stolen dogs.”

In another part of town, Lucy Haurisa and her colleagues at the Cambodian Animals Protection Association provide shelter for around 100 dogs, including animals that have been rescued from the dog meat trade.

”This is a growing concern”, she tells me. ”I think one reason behind the increasing popularity is related to cultural traditions coming in from Vietnam, Korea and Laos where eating dog is more common.”

Dog thieves use simple and cruel methods for catching dogs. One such method is to get a snare around the neck of the dog and drag it behind a motorbike until it passes out or is choked to death.

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what next? Restaurants for human meat?

there is always an ngo behind these scare stories

How is it a "scare story"? Some people eat dog meat. That's just a fact. You can go on youtube and see security camera videos of pet dogs being stolen out of peoples gated front yards and treated brutally in the process. It's not a stretch to assume some of them end up on the grill, unfortunately.

Gen. Mac wrote, "I ate dog once. Never again"
So did I when I was teaching in Korea. A Korean student of mine invited me to dinner asking me
If I liked "dawk soup" I of course thought he had said duck soup which as far as I knew was only the title of a Marx brothers film After the first taste I choked the remainder down out of politeness. Later I found out that the restaurant sourced its supply from a Catholic nunnery.

I can never eat the dog because i love,
I hope no one take my dog away,
Pity

pigs have higher IQ than dogs, why are we eating pork?

bolueeleh wrote:pigs have higher IQ than dogs, why are we eating pork?

i think ive made my point...