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To: Les H who wrote (144018)	1/16/2002 1:13:31 AM
From: Gut Trader	Read Replies (2) of 436258

OT/ Every Mall with a Chinese restaurant also seems to have a Veterinarian's office too.....Hmmmmm Doctor Dogmeat Muzzled by Pet Lovers January 15, 2002 08:09 AM ET SEOUL (Reuters) - Hounded by pet lovers, South Korean dogmeat proponents were forced to postpone a major event planned for this week to promote canine cuisine and fight off international critics. Feisty animal lovers' phone calls prompted the owner of the venue to withdraw its offer to rent space to a would-be dogmeat restaurant federation that planned to launch a campaign to promote the meat to tourists before and during the World Cup. "There were complaints from animal lovers," said Kim Yoong-kwan, spokesman for KT Corp, the state-owned telephone company which owns the hall outside Seoul where the dogmeat convention was to be held. "We canceled our plan to rent the building as we had allowed them to use the building on the assumption there will be a seminar, not something like an opening ceremony," he said of the unwanted publicity. Some 100 dogmeat restaurant owners were to launch their federation Monday with an appearance by a college professor dubbed "Doctor Dogmeat" who boasts 350 canine recipes and a development strategy for the Korean dogmeat industry. Dogs are bred to be eaten in South Korea, notably in poshintang, literally "body preservation stew," which advocates say is good for your health and which is considered a delicacy by some. The eating of dogmeat in Korea caused particular alarm abroad and among animal rights activists in South Korea ahead of the 2002 World Cup soccer finals as some dogs are killed to make the meat more tender by beating, burning or hanging. One South Korean civic group has used the Internet to run an aggressive campaign against eating dogmeat, even calling for a boycott of the World Cup finals, which South Korea and Japan will co-host from May 31 to June 30. The Anti-Dogmeat Headquarters (www.admh.org) challenges dogmeat proponents' claim that Korean culture is under attack, declaring that "eating dogs is a barbaric Chinese custom."

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