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Many times we eat lunch, we eat dinner and we have a bunch of meat in front of us; we
have a fat BBQ and we just go eat everything we never question how we are able to get that
meat. Do we? Do we care that some animal died for that lunch, do we care, do we care that
some animal died for that dinner, do we care about the suffering the pain the fact that
those animals were just raised and born for the lone purpose to be our food supply. And
then the question is; if you don’t care, then why you start caring regardless the specie
of the animal; for example if there is a chicken you start not caring, but then if it’s a
dog, then ‘no, that’s horrible’ but yet, if it’s a chicken or cow or pig, which
arguably are still smart species but yet we don’t care. They die; they die for the lone
purpose, the die for the only reason for being born the wrong species.
In this place, it’s where they slaughter the ducks; they cut the head of the duck and
let it bleed to death. Soon we are going to see, actually, where they do the same thing
but with dogs. This is one of the locations where they sell
dog meat very frequently, and there is a lot of variety. And here you can see they weight
it, and those people selling it, they look completely normal because they are normal
people. In this city Ban Ninh, Vietnam, there is absolutely no empathy for dogs, as in your
country there is no empathy for pigs if you live in Texas or there is no empathy for cows
if you live in Europe or anywhere. And then we met Hai, a local store owner. He picks
up wild dogs or home dogs, and he raise them for a while and then he kills them, butcher
them, and cook them for being, you know, eaten right away. And that’s his idea of ‘fast
food’.
He is actually proud of the fact that he has been selling dog meat for so many years…
This is a pretty graphic scene of a dog being slaughtered. It’s treated exactly as beef.
If you are a pet owner, dog owner, maybe you don’t want to see it or if you just saw
it by mistake, clicked forward or something; I’m really sorry about that…But, it’s
pretty graphic, and here it’s just like beef. There is nothing wrong on using as a
livestock. The mentality of people in here; they don’t feel nothing wrong is happening.
‘You know, I’m selling meat’. Even when he (Hai) was talking about the difference
between processing the dog meat and beef, for example, or the pork I think. They were
talking as if it was the same thing because in their mind it’s the same thing. They
take all dogs, all Vietnamese dogs, from the street, and then they just kill them, basically
and eat them. And it’s a little bit *** up but you know; you must understand the point
of view of these people, which is different from, maybe, most of these western countries.
Meanwhile I was riding my motorcycle around the city; I encountered so many of these dogs.
They had an owner, they thought. They probably loved their owner. If the owner was dying,
they would probably try to save him, and that happened many times. But what one day the
owner will eat them, will sell them, or just eat them. When they are doing so my only question
is “Do they feel bad about it? Do they feel like they just ate one of their best friends?
Or they just think it’s just how it’s supposed to be. I guess, I guess I understand
the prospective. I guess it’s just hard to be in that prospective, but it’s understandable.
There was this Italian show and there was this lady. She was keeping a wild pig. The
wild pig was treated as a pet, but she was spending all these money for him, feeding
him, sending him to the veterinary, treating him as anyone would treat a pet, even nicer,
I would say. This little pig was very nice, cut, I’d say. I was thinking about that,
thinking: if you raise a pig as a livestock, you are going to see him as meat. You are
not going to care about him, but if you raise him as, you know, as a pet. You are going
to love him. The same concept applies for dogs. Actually dogs, if you treat them like,
they are just meat. What put them above other animal, like cows and pigs? You can say they
are smarter. But that’s arguable. So what; are we giving more importance to the brain,
which one is smarter deserve to live more than the least smart. That’s where we have
come to? If that’s what we are doing; let’s do the same thing with people. So smart people
deserve to live more than stupid people? I’m pretty sure you don’t think that. The same
thing works for animals. What I’m trying to say is: we can live without eating animals,
yet we decide to eat them because we are selfish and taste good.