Slik ble hundekjøtt en luksusvare - nå dyrere enn svinekjøtt [reportasje på DN.no]

[Gjest]

http://www.dn.no/forsiden/utenriks/article2690857.ece

Vietnamesiske myndigheter anslår at det finnes ti millioner hunder i landet. Landsbyenes hundefarmer er ikke lenger nok til å tilfredsstille etterspørselen etter hundekjøtt. Nå har kriminelle hundefangere begynt å stjele husdyr og smugle hunder inn i landet fra andre asiatiske land. Aller verst er smuglingen fra Thailand:

- Denne industrien har utviklet seg til å bli en viktig eksportnæring i Thailand. Den ulovlige handelen er skattefri og profitten er fra 300-500 prosent. Alle vil ha sin bit av kaken, sier dyreaktivisten Roger Lohanan i Thai Animal Guardians Association til The Guardian.

Les originalen på engelsk her: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/eating-dog-vietnam-thailand-kate-hodal

How eating dog became big business in Vietnam

Every year, hundreds of thousands of pets are snatched in Thailand, then smuggled into Vietnam, destined for Hanoi's top restaurants and street stalls. Demand for dogmeat is so high that supply has become a highly lucrative – and brutal – black market

Trucks containing 130 dogs are seized on the highway between Thailand and Vietnam. Photograph: Luke Duggleby

Nguyen Tien Tung is just the sort of man you'd expect to run a Hanoi slaughterhouse: wiry, frenetic and filthy, his white T-shirt collaged with bloodstains, his jean shorts loose around taut, scratched-up legs, his feet squelching in plastic sandals. Hunched over his metal stall, between two hanging carcasses and an oversized tobacco pipe, the 42-year-old is surveying his killing station – an open-air concrete patio leading on to a busy road lined with industrial supply shops.

Two skinless carcasses, glistening pure white in the hot morning sun, are being rinsed down by one of Nguyen's cousins. Just two steps away are holding pens containing five dogs each, all roughly the same size, some still sporting collars. Nguyen reaches into one cage and caresses the dog closest to the door. As it starts wagging its tail, he grabs a heavy metal pipe, hits the dog across the head, then, laughing loudly, slams the cage door closed.

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Pet ownership is still relatively new in Vietnam – dogs here have traditionally been reared for either food or security purposes – so campaigners have chosen to scrap the "cruelty" argument in favour of emphasising dogmeat's effect on people's health. It has been linked to regional outbreaks of trichinosis, cholera and rabies, a point activists underscore as the region looks to eradicate rabies by 2020. At the first international meeting on the dogmeat trade in Hanoi in late August, lawmakers and campaigners from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam agreed on a five-point plan, including a five-year moratorium on the cross-border transportation of dogs for commercial purposes, in order to research the impact on rabies transmission.

The agreement might represent a significant policy shift, Dalley says, but may do little to wipe out the trade. "Through undercover investigators, we know the smugglers are already looking at alternative measures, including slaughtering dogs in Thailand and shipping carcasses as opposed to live animals." His foundation will be employing a full-time agent to monitor the border between Laos and Vietnam, he adds. "There will be a follow-up meeting in Bangkok, probably in the new year, and it will be embarrassing if they are still allowing dogs in.""

[Arielle]

Jeg får frysninger! For det første så er det hunder der er snakk om men ingen dyr, verken hunder eller andre dyr fortjener å bli behandlet og transportert på det viset der.

[Lola Pagola]

Fy søren det blir ekstra ubehagelig når det er hunder det er snakk om, med det forholdet vi har til dem, men denne behandlingen, og stjelingen, er grusom. Uansett art.

[Maria]

Hunder, slik jeg ser dem, er kjæledyr. Dessuten lever mange hunder på en diett som består av for det meste kjøtt og annen animalsk føde. Lite næringsnyttig for oss mennesker på sikt. Trist å se at dyr behandles sånn som dette

[Gjest]

Jeg tenker bare - er det rart vi får fugleinfluensa og svineinfluensa, når "matdyr" oppbevares slik...

[Ganzie]

Jeg tenker at folk må bare ete hva de vil, hund, katt, kanin, gris etc, men uansett art så kan man da i det minste behandle dyret bra før slakt, og avlive humant. Her går de jo virkelig inn for å mishandle de stakkars dyrene så godt som mulig før de endelig får dø

Og som Kanger sier, ikke rart vi får masse skumle sykdommer når vi oppbevarer og behandler maten slik...

[yurij]

Tenkte hønsehold når jeg så bildet.