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Teriyaki Dog Off the Oympics Menu – That’s Just Wrong

by · July 18th, 2008
Animal Care, Meat, On The Web, Opinion, Rant!

Dog on a plateApparently Beijing has ordered the 112 approved restaurants for the Olympics to stop serving dog with “the sensitivity of foreign visitors in mind.”

Vegetarian satire aside, I extremely disagree with this decision. Dog, as unappetizing it might be to us sheltered Americans, is a part of the cuisine of a large part of the world (the extent of which I can’t say).

But what if Israel hosted the Olympics — would we put aside gefilte fish? (Hell, even lots of Jews think that one’s nasty.) Or ban schnitzel? Hummus? Olives? No way. That’s what we eat. We don’t have to apologize to anyone for kashrut, nor latkes.

China shouldn’t have to either.

(Hat tip on article and pic to Illiterate Electorate.)

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2 Responses to “Teriyaki Dog Off the Oympics Menu – That’s Just Wrong”

  1. kreplech Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    you know that old saying: latke is man’s best friend.

  2. Eric Schulmiller Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    If Israelis banned gefilte fish, that would be a ban on dag, not dog.

    Also, teriyaki is a (Americanized) Japanese dish, not Chinese.

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