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Compared to “only” 500 millions pigs, the number of dogs is astounding. No wonder many countries also use them as food.
by sinuhe69 3y ago
Compared 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!