A canine butcher is a

butcher shop A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishm ...

specializing in the sale and processing of

dog meat Dog meat is the flesh and other edible parts derived from dogs. Historically, human consumption of dog meat has been recorded in many parts of the world. During the 19th century westward movement in the United States, ''mountainmen'', native ...

History

Over the centuries, the consumption of dog meat has occurred, usually as a result of hardship, but sometimes as part of a culture. As a result, shops specializing in dog meat have opened.

Europe

France

In France, during the Franco-Prussian War, butcheries of dogs opened, along with butcheries of many other strange animals, due to food shortages caused by the war and the Siege of Paris.

Netherlands

Dog butchers existed in the

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, as an advertisement for a "hondeslagerij" from 1928 attests.

Asia

China

Yulin, Guangxi Yulin (, ), alternately romanized as Watlam, is one of the fourteen prefecture-level cities of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Its Chinese name was changed in 1956 from the historical name "" (), which is homopho ...

, canine butcher shops slaughter around 300 dogs a day. During a dog meat festival in 2010, reactions were heavily divided between animal rights advocates and dog meat lovers. However, the practice of eating dogs is slowly dying out due to pressure from the growing middle class in China, who prefer keeping dogs as pets over eating them. As a result, the number of canine butchers is dwindling year by year.

South Korea

The largest dog butchery in South Korea, located in

Seongnam Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...

, closed in May 2017.

Notes and references

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