[CUFS_Current English 1_Essay] Eating Dog Meat

I don't want to be ethnocentric, I think, however, I think people should not eat man's best friend and here are the two supporting reasons why.

First, dogs are becoming more and more familiar with lives of Koreans and these days people try to call him/her a companion, instead of saying them pets. Some may say it's hypocritical to say it's okay to eat other meat like pork or chicken while getting up in arms about eating dogs. But as we human beings are also animals whose main source of energy is usually obtained by having meat, it is the only way for us to consume livestock to get protein and fat. Not slaughtering any other animal like dogs for our consumption, we can at least maintain our integrity as men.

Second and lastly, I have seen CNN, the global news channel, reporting on a Chinese dog meat festival held in Spring. The camera showed how the Chinese dog meat sellers treated the sentient beings in a brutal and inhumane way. The vendors' rushing to the reporters to get in the way was aired, suggesting they must have felt a sense of guilty or shame about what they were doing.

For these reasons, I don't think it is not right to regard eating dogs as a part of a whole culture. I'd like to end my essay with George Vest's famous script.

'The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is the dog.'

P.S. I was born in a year of dogs.