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> There are approximately 300 million street dogs across Asia Didn’t expect that number honestly.
by sMarsIntruder 3y ago
> There are approximately 300 million street dogs across Asia
Didn’t expect that number honestly.
- csomar 3y agoAsia has 4.5 billion humans. So that works out around 15 persons per dog. Seems quite spot-on given that these dogs will eat on leftovers and whatever humans throw to them. I wonder if they derived the number that way (highly doubt they are id-ing all these dogs).
- sinuhe69 3y agoCompared to “only” 500 millions pigs, the number of dogs is astounding. No wonder many countries also use them as food.
- athreyac8 3y agoDogs as food?
- mkl 3y agoYes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat
- jaeckel 3y agoWhile traveling SE Asia I didn't see that very often. Besides in some rural areas (and even there), dogs turned into pets as in western "civilization" and their owners didn't want to eat them anymore.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoWhen I was in Hanoi in 2010, in the central districts as unrural as you can get in Vietnam, skinned dog carcasses were hanging at a number of markets. If westernization has had an impact, it must be more recent than that. I’m curious to go back and see for myself.
- sampullman 3y agoMy understanding is that young people are starting to turn against dog meat consumption, but it's still very common in the north.
- Garlef 3y agoIn germany it was forbidden only in 1986. But it's been a taboo for a longer time.
- ajb 3y agoPeople will eat anything when necessary. This is a famous restaurant menu from the 1870 siege of Paris: https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Menu-siegedeparis.jpg https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Me... It contains entries such as Consommé d'Eléphant, Le Civet de Kangourou, and Le Chat flanquè de Rats
- mcv 3y agoEven rat sounds fancy in French.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoSeems the Paris Zoo soon became empty :)
- prmoustache 3y agoWhy not? Have you tasted one?
- Propelloni 3y agoThis number seems a little bit off. About 900 million pigs are slaughtered in Asia per year [1] That's 2.5 million dead pigs a day. Since we need live animals to breed more for killing them and it takes time before they are killed, this suggests that at any given time more than a billion pigs are alive in Asia. But good thing that we sterilized those 150000 dogs, anything else would have been inhumane [2] [1] https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-and-charts-2020-update/ https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-a... [2] Sorry, I'm bitter.
- Adverblessly 3y agoAccording to a random page I found online, pigs are typically slaughtered at 5-6 months old, so assuming a stable population, you'd expect the number of living pigs (raised for slaughter) at any time to be 42%-50% of the yearly amount, so 375,000,000 - 450,000,000 going purely off of your 900,000,000 figure, making 500,000,000 a reasonable estimate, no?
- Propelloni 3y agoWow, that is sooner than I expected. I was thinking along the lines of 12 month and thought, nah, that's too quick. Thank you!
- bongoman37 3y ago[dead]