Rich Lon Nol generals and army officers loved to eat dog meat with Teuk
Tnouk soo. I do not think they were starving. They loved it.
Soriya wrote:
Mekong River,
My article clearly implies that in Cambodia, before 1970 the eating of
dogs was virtually non-existent, & during the war years 1970-1975 it
was out of poverty & for pure survival.
Soriya
On Sep 13, 6:20 pm, "Mekong River" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have to distinguish eating dog meat as a culture and doing it out of
poverty and for pure survival. Although the overwhelming majority of Khmer
don't eat dogs, you are bounded to find a small group of Khmer who indulge
in the practice. I know one guy, a Khmer, who confides to me he likes it,
and he would take the opportunity to join in the party with other friends in
doing so. Having said this, compared to the yuons, the Korean and Chen, most
Khmers don't regard it as a national culture.
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Soriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In Phnom Penh in the late 1960's when I was an early teenager I heard
that the Vietnamese in Vietnam ate dogs, openly. Although I
was still young I immediately believed that this practice was a result
of a lengthy war. War makes lives of all ordinary people a very
difficult struggle. People need to eat. If they have nothing to eat &
they have dogs or can afford to get them, they'll inevitably eat them.
Surely enough, in Cambodia, starting from 1972, only 2 years after the
war started, the eating of dogs began.
A story. In Phnom Penh, 1 day in 1974, about 6 pm, I was with a group
of people in an open-air market, which was already almost empty, just
east of the Soriya cinema (not my cinema!! d'ohh!! ha haaaaaaaaa!!).
Then we heard the painful scream of a dog. We looked in the direction
of the scream. We saw a man, about 50 years old, sitting on his bed in
his tiny home on an edge of & inside the market, at a distance of
approximately 30 metres from us, holding the top of a closed big bag
containing something in it in his left hand, the bottom of the bag
resting on the ground, & a big stick on his right hand. There were a
few other people in his home, who we believed were members of his
family. We knew right away that that something in the bag was a dog &
that he was killing it for food. Realizing that we looked at him, he
appeared to be a little ashamed, & stopped beating the dog, which was
probably already unconscious because there was scream no more.
Realizing his emotion, understanding his miserable conditions, &
having compassion for him & his family, we turned our eyes away from
him & pretended to see & hear nothing. He & his family must have been
a few of the 100s of 1,000s of war refugees in Phnom Penh. I believed
that he felt a little ashamed because at that time the eating of dogs
was still a new routine & as yet not very many people did it.
That's a personal story. As of now I still have compassion for him
whenever I recall that story, even though I never knew him. In
general, it was well known that more & more people ate dogs, in Phnom
Penh or elsewhere in Cambodia.
Before 1970, there were also people in Cambodia who ate dogs & even
cats. But there were so few of them that practically their
number could be & was considered as negligible.
People who're against eating dogs should consider these:
- If you can eat cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, etc, then why
can't other people eat dogs??
- If dogs are your pets, then cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, etc,
are other people's pets. Cows are even more than pets: they've
been helping man in his agriculture all over the world &
throughout history, & still so even today in many countries.
They're so important to man that Hinduism even "promoted" them
to the status of a "god", clearly to frighten people into
respecting
& not eating them!!
- If you love dogs, then other people love cows, pigs, chickens,
ducks, fish, etc.
- If you're a vegetarian, you shouldn't try to impose your beliefs &
values on other people, as you have no right to do so.
- Some people shed their tears for the freedom of whales &
dolphins but when they come home they eat cows or pigs or even
fish like tunas or salmons or mackerels. They're hypocrites.
- Some people even demand that fishermen on the high seas who
catch tunas must avoid touching whales & dolphins, which now
are no longer endangered species!! How hypocrite that is!!
As if the life of a whale or a dolphin were more precious than that of
a tuna or a cow!! That's a discriminatory attitude!! Which is a
part of the root of racism.
I don't eat dogs. However I don't try to impose my habit of not eating
dogs on other people.
Soriya
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