What is boshingtang or dog meat soup?
Puppies are squeezed into tiny cages with no room to move in in Moran Market in Seongnam east of Seoul. The dogs are just waiting to be butchered to be consumed as delicacies for the local people. Moran Market is notorious for being the largest dog meat market in Seoul. A soup with dog meat called boshintang is popular in Korea, especially on the three hot “dog days” of summer on the lunar calendar. The meat is boiled well together with many kinds of vegetables and seasoning for a long time. The traditional belief is that dog meat helps boost stamina and virility, but activists regularly criticize the practice and call for bans on eating dog meat. A total of 2 million dogs are consumed yearly for meat or soup in South Korea, which population is near 45 million, according to a South Korean daily reported. The daily quoted a survey conducted by a lawmaker. More than half of the respondents said that they had an experience of eating dog meat, according to the survey. Estimated 75 percent
