The chinese people eat dog meat in many dishes. But with the world watching during next month’s Beijing Olympic Games, the Beijing City Government Food Safety Office has asked the 112 officially designated Olympic restaurants in the region to take dog off the menu. And many other restaurants are being asked as well. Waiters & waitresses are being instructed to make other suggestions for those ordering the dish.
As with most habitual controversial practices, this is all for show. People won’t stop eating dog meat, they just won’t do it where anyone can see…until after the Olympics is over. If you don’t see people eating dog, does that mean that dogs are not being eaten? Hiding it from people is just a case of “out of sight, out of mind.”
China isn’t the only city that has temporarily banned dog. South Korea did too during the 1998 Olympics there.
