(ID - MY) Foreign workers eating dog meat

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Foreign workers eating dog meat

 

By WANI MUTHIAH

 

June 25, 2008

 

KLANG: Stray puppies are ending up as meals for foreign construction workers

keen on reducing their food bills.

 

Indonesian construction worker Wagang Saring said the high prices of food and

the need to send as much money to families back home had forced him and his

friends to eat pooches.

 

" Puppies are the best as their meat is tender, " said the 37-year-old Saring.

" The meat gives us energy to work at construction sites. Three puppies will do

for five men. "

 

Saring was approached by The Star at a petrol kiosk in Bukit Tinggi after he was

seen hitting a puppy with a piece of wood.

 

He knocked out the puppy with two blows and carried it back to his kongsi where

his friends had already built a fire.

 

Fellow Indonesian worker Marcel Jeheta, 30, said the large number of stray

dogs in Klang provided ample supply of meat.

 

Jeheta, who comes from Flores Island, said dog meat was a popular source of

protein back home.

 

" Dog meat is widely eaten in Flores Island and we continue the practice in

Malaysia, " he said.

 

A check around the construction site found many dogs, mostly females, that

appeared to have littered recently . But there were no puppies in sight.

 

Cleaner Suriyati Norsalim, 40, from central Jawa, was quick to point out that

only some Indonesians ate dog meat.

 

" Only those from Flores Island, who are not Muslims, and some non-Muslim Bataks

(from Sumatra) eat dog meat, " she added.

 

Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Thu, 25, who works at a factory in Klang, said she noticed

her countrymen eating more dog meat recently.

 

She said dog meat was a popular delicacy in Vietnam.

 

Animal welfare activist Sabrina Yeap said dog eating was gaining momentum among

foreign workers because there was no law against it. " It is not illegal and so

no action can be taken against those who do so, " she added.

 

Yeap, who manages the canine sanctuary Furry Friends Farm, said it was time the

Government banned dog eating as it involved inhumane killing methods.

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I guess the older I get the more confused I become, as these appeals to ban

the eating of puppies just don¹t make any sense anymore. Not sure what the

difference is between allowing people to go out and shoot a duck or pick up

a street dog and go home and make puppy burgers. And to justify a McPuppy

ban based on ³inhumane killing methods² also makes my brain fizzle. What is

the ³humane² killing method? Involuntary euthanasia? A quick spike to the

brain?

 

It seems the act of ³killing² must stop - full stop. But how to make

governments see this point of view? Governments, in general, won¹t flinch

at sending the best and brightest of their humans to kill and be killed in

whatever war de jour they are waging. This of course is justified and

³noble.² On the other hand, barbequing a kitten or a pig is not, although

in many cases, ribs with sauce is socially acceptable. This strange

dichotomy is really the root of the problem. Until the root causes of

suffering are addressed, we will be spinning our wheels in samsara, ad

nauseam, on thru the ages, bickering over what species to digest or not, and

which method of execution is better: a slit to the throat, or an

aesthetically-correct poison into the tail.

 

Jigs

 

 

Diana Hartig <dhartig

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:41:47 +0200

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(ID - MY) Foreign workers eating dog meat

 

 

 

 

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Foreign workers eating dog meat

 

By WANI MUTHIAH

 

June 25, 2008

 

KLANG: Stray puppies are ending up as meals for foreign construction workers

keen on reducing their food bills.

 

Indonesian construction worker Wagang Saring said the high prices of food

and the need to send as much money to families back home had forced him and

his friends to eat pooches.

 

" Puppies are the best as their meat is tender, " said the 37-year-old Saring.

" The meat gives us energy to work at construction sites. Three puppies will

do for five men. "

 

Saring was approached by The Star at a petrol kiosk in Bukit Tinggi after he

was seen hitting a puppy with a piece of wood.

 

He knocked out the puppy with two blows and carried it back to his kongsi

where his friends had already built a fire.

 

Fellow Indonesian worker Marcel Jeheta, 30, said the large number of stray

dogs in Klang provided ample supply of meat.

 

Jeheta, who comes from Flores Island, said dog meat was a popular source of

protein back home.

 

" Dog meat is widely eaten in Flores Island and we continue the practice in

Malaysia, " he said.

 

A check around the construction site found many dogs, mostly females, that

appeared to have littered recently . But there were no puppies in sight.

 

Cleaner Suriyati Norsalim, 40, from central Jawa, was quick to point out

that only some Indonesians ate dog meat.

 

" Only those from Flores Island, who are not Muslims, and some non-Muslim

Bataks (from Sumatra) eat dog meat, " she added.

 

Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Thu, 25, who works at a factory in Klang, said she

noticed her countrymen eating more dog meat recently.

 

She said dog meat was a popular delicacy in Vietnam.

 

Animal welfare activist Sabrina Yeap said dog eating was gaining momentum

among foreign workers because there was no law against it. " It is not

illegal and so no action can be taken against those who do so, " she added.

 

Yeap, who manages the canine sanctuary Furry Friends Farm, said it was time

the Government banned dog eating as it involved inhumane killing methods.