Canine butcher

A canine butcher is a butcher shop specializing in the sale and processing of dog meat.

Banner announcing the opening of a canine butchery in Paris, c. 1910

History

Over the centuries, the consumption of dog meat has occurred, usually as a result of hardship, but sometimes as part of a culture. As a result, shops specializing in dog meat have opened.

France

In France, during the Franco-Prussian War, butcheries of dogs opened, along with butcheries of many other strange animals, due to food shortages caused by the war and the Siege of Paris. [1]

Netherlands

Dog butchers existed in the Netherlands, as an advertisement for a "hondeslagerij" from 1928 attests. [2]

China

In Yulin, Guangxi, canine butcher shops slaughter around 300 dogs a day. During a dog meat festival in 2010, reactions were heavily divided between animal rights advocates and dog meat lovers.[3] However, the practice of eating dogs is slowly dying out due to pressure from the growing middle class in China, who prefer keeping dogs as pets over eating them. As a result, the number of canine butchers is dwindling year by year. [4]

South Korea

The largest dog butchery in South Korea, located in Seongnam, closed in May 2017. [5]

See also

Notes and references
  1. de la Morandière, G. (1957). "Les transformations d'un animal dans une boucherie et le bénéfice qui en résulte". Économie rurale. 34 (1): 43–47. doi:10.3406/ecoru.1957.1611. ISSN 0013-0559.
  2. "De Waterlander | 27 oktober 1928 | pagina 4". Krantenviewer Waterlands Archief (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2017-03-18. Retrieved 2021-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "Le festival de la viande de chien en Chine choque les amis des animaux". LExpress.fr (in French). 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  4. "Chinese legal experts call for ban on eating cats and dogs". the Guardian. 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  5. "Corée du Sud : Le plus grand marché de viande de chien ferme enfin". aufeminin (in French). 2016-12-19. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
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