Beijing's designated Olympic restaurants ordered to take dog meat off the menu


Posted on Jul 15, 2008
By Julia Szabo

According to AP, dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, i.e. restaurants catering to spectators of and participants in the Olympic Games, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs.  

Dog meat is known in Chinese as "xiangrou," or "fragrant meat." It is generally considered taboo in Western culture, where pet dogs are cherished as family members.  

Beijing is not the first Olympic host city to ban dog meat; it was also banned in South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, by order of a law prohibiting the sale of "foods deemed unsightly." After the Olympics, however, that law was not strictly enforced.  

Travelers who love dogs and would prefer not to witness the slaughter and sale of dogs for food are careful when planning trips to Asia, when they don't refrain from traveling there altogether. Other Asian countries where dog meat is eaten include Vietnam, the Philippines, and Laos.

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