Banteay Meanchey
Publication Date : 26-08-2012
A demonstration against eating dog meat in Seoul. North Korea is promoting the virtue of dog meat as a way to beat the summer heat and says customers are packing Pyongyang restaurants which serve the traditional dish
(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)
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Riding a motorcycle with a cage, Pov Nat scours rural areas for dogs. He pays between 30,000 (US$7.38) and 80,000 riel a head and sells the animals to a butcher in Siem Reap.
The 21-year-old native of Kampong Cham province began buying dogs after coming to live with his uncle in Rohal commune in Preah Nethpreah district.
"I never thought of this business. I left my hometown to find work. But I don't want to work in Thailand, so I chose this," he said. Pov Nat said he began buying dogs after becoming acquainted with the butcher in Siem Reap. The butcher supplies restaurants catering to tourists from South Korea. "I buy between six and 11 dogs a day and purchases are based on orders from the butcher in Siem Reap," he said. The butcher pays him 16,000 riel a kilogramme for each dog.
"Dogs bought from rural areas have good meat. The clients in Siem Reap like it but say the meat is not as delicious as dog meat raised abroad."
For now, the only obstacle to supplying Koreans with one of their favorite foods seems to be police manning checkpoints. "They ask me for 10,000 riel when I pass each checkpoint," Pov Nat said. "When I use something to cover the cage, they accuse me of transporting illegal animals. But when I remove the cover, they accuse me of disturbing public order. Then they accuse me of this or that and finally ask me for money." In South Korea, where dogs are farmed, dog meat is typically prepared in a soup known as bosintang. Unlike China, where dog meat is considered a winter dish, dog in South Korea is particularly popular in the hot summer months. (US$1 = 4067 riel) |
9 comments:
Corruption is the cancer to khmer's society just read the article about the guy telling his story in here it is hard to live in the corrupts society like kampuchea today.Dogs business is good business but,briberies every checking point is not so good for business,10,000 riel =2.20$,that is one checking point what about more check point? you make no money...
Bravo Koreans + Chinese + Vietnamese Dog Lovers. hahahaha
Dogs are smart pet, its wrong to eat them. They had the ability to hav feeling similar to man. Most animals we can eat but dogs and cats, whales, elephants, cats, dolphins are just WRONGS these species have very good intelligence.
Look at that picture. Make me cry and throw up at the same time. I understand it just meat from animal but dont put it in broad day light for all to see. I hope srok Khmer don't allow this kind of display around kids or public area. Maybe their society accept, feel, etc like pork or beef to do this with no remorse or shame or disgust
For us Cambodian live on the rural, dogs are our friends and protectors. They live with us like our family and friends.
Most of us did not think that much to kill or eat dog.
Its disgusting!! Govt should ban people and punish people who killed our pets and selling meat in the market...What a disgusting!!!!Plenty other animals that people can normally eat, chicken, duck,pork, cow, fish.....Not our pets?? No wonder our country was under a cursed!!!! Disgusting!!!!People who killed, abused our pets will face jail time and fine$ for country like US,UK
People who eat Dogs, Cats, the same thing eating member of their family......
Seriously speaking, could dog meat make these slanted eyes people smarter? Could it be the secret?
Yuck! That is disgusting.
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