Dogmeat in California

Many of us have become almost innured to the cruelty toward dogs and cats in South Korea. The barbarous "tradition" of torturing these intelligent animals to death is something that the Koreans are proud of as a part of their cultural heritage, ignoring the fact that this "tradition" is only around 20 years old. They also claim that we should accept their right to their culture and object to our complaining of their treatment of animals, declaring us to be "Cultural Imperialists".

By this reasoning, do we not also have a right to maintain our own culture and laws? Do we not also have a right to object when these are undermined?

The people of the USA do not eat dogs and never have. This is why there are some States that have no laws specifically banning the eating of dogmeat, although this practise is illegal under other, more general, legislation.

Amazingly, although under California's State Penal Code dogmeat is clearly illegal, it is wide-spread in both Los Angeles and Orange County.

For the average non-Asian American, it would be very difficult to find a boshintang (dog meat) restaurant in California, but to a Korean it is simple. You just have to be able to read Korean, for these restaurants cater for their own immigrant community. The advertisements are quite blatant. There is little reason for them not to be. When these are reported to the authorities, the police use "interpreters" who state that the signs are advertising goat meat.....

Check the evidence below and decide for yourself. Images opened from this page will open in a new page to allow you to compare the Korean letters. Use Alt and Tab keys in Internet Explorer to switch between them.



Korean letters for boshintang (pronounced boo-shin-tung), dogmeat soup or stew, often referred to as "health soup" or "strong man soup"



 This restaurant is in a predominantly white area. When handbills describing what the restaurant was serving, along with a picture of the symbol, were distributed to hundreds of houses in the area, the restaurant owner decided to take down the sign.




Korean letters for Hook Yim So, or goat meat stew. Compare these to the characters for Boshintang shown above.



Korean restaurants frequently claim when challenged that they are in fact selling goat, and not dog meat. The "O Gam Do" displays its speciality of boshintang openly. Health inspectors denied that this restaurant sold dog, and a Korean from the health department said that the sign did NOT say boshintang, but goat meat!





This menu from a Korean Restaurant in California clearly shows goat and dog meat at $11. This is the only item on the menu not translated into English.............



Want extract of boiled-alive cats? Then this is the place to come. It is a storefront that contains a business area in front: basically just a counter and some boxes. Behind a door that bears a "No Admittance" sign is a room filled with pressure cookers, which is how Koreans make "juice extract" from goats, dogs and cats. This is in L.A's Koreatown, located right next to a boshintang restaurant. Since this place is called "CUSTOM SOUP," and there is no evidence that they SERVE food, it appears that the customer must bring his own (or a stolen) animal to be cooked alive, a kind of "Korean Take-away".



And if they can't manage to steal the animals..........


 This is a holding pen in the heart of L.A's Koreatown. At least two adult sheperds stay there all the time. They have litters of puppies which last until they put on a little weight, then they are gone. Often other adult dogs appear in the cage as well, but for only a few days. This cage is on a lot used supposedly for car sales. It is guarded by a security officer 24/7.



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