An Olympic feat: Beijing orders dog off menu
Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics.
The capital city, which recently saw the opening of its first Hooters (ain't Western influence a wonderful thing?) ordered hotels and restaurants contracting with Olympics to remove dog from the menu, and asked other restaurants to go along as well -- at least until the Olympics conclude.
Concerned that canine dishes might offend animal rights groups and Western visitors, Beijing said restaurants expected to be popular among foreign visitors must stop serving dog meat "to respect the dining customs of different countries," Reuters reported today.
(Hooters, which respects the customs of plunging necklines and extremely short shorts, doesn't serve dogs -- unless you count the customers.)
A temporary ban on serving dog in restaurants was enacted in South Korea in 1988, when the Olympics were held in Seoul.
(AP photo)
Comments
A Hooters in China, sounds like they have really gone to the dogs...oh wait, let me rephraise that...
Posted by: Fells Point Craig | July 11, 2008 2:49 PM
It figures. They killed 50,000 dogs a year and a half to two years ago and then did the same thing to cats there recently and they kill them in such a horribly cruel manner. Same with how they kill them for food. Unbelievably cruel. Yes, we have our own factories of horrors here in the U.S. I don't eat animals and don't wear animal products. I won't be watching the Olympics, which should not be held there in the first place because of both nonhuman and human treatment in China.
Posted by: Linda | July 11, 2008 9:18 PM
You won't get fat eating Chinese Food, but you might get a little husky
Posted by: Nope Nobody | July 15, 2008 3:21 PM