Definitely to many Rwandans, it is abominable to eat dog meat. The Rwandan traditional culture doesn’t condon eating dog meat. A dog is seen as a pet and most cases a carnivorous animal whose major role is to protect its master and hunting.
However, some foreigners living in Rwanda but with contrasting cultures find dog meat a delicious item.
It is reported that Chinese expatriates working at the Everlasting Commercial Complex in Kigali city are occasionally found in celebration mood while cooking dog meat.
This surprises most of the Rwandans working at the site especially when they see a dog hide.
Rwandan workers at the construction site are now used to seeing their Chinese counterparts eating dog meat.
On the day of preparing dog meat, the Chinese mansons grant a day off to most Rwandan workers at the site and dedicate the whole day to feasting on the dog.
Surprising enough, the dog meat at the site is prepared by a female Rwandan who says that while preparing this exceptional Chinese dish, she adds local ingredients including; onions, tomatoes and fries in cooking oil and that this takes her about forty minutes.
She says the Chinese eat dog meat with rice and a side dish of vegetables.
However, the Kigali city authorities warned without giving specific reasons, that for special cases like waste material from dog meat preparation should be disposed off in isolation and not in general garbage disposal sites.
Proponents of dog meat have argued that distinctions between livestock and pets is subjective, and that there is no difference with eating the meat of different animals, while countering that those critical of dog meat consumption are guilty of cultural supremacy, if not racism.
In South Korea Dog soup, or Boshintang, is a summer delicacy. A minority of people eat it regularly. It’s consumed most frequently in summer but is available year-round. It’s more popular with men than women and is said to possess qualities that “help stamina.”
In china during the three-day annual dog-meat “carnival,” in October, up to 10,000 dogs are killed and skinned in the streets of Qianxi township, located in Zhejiang’s eastern coastal province.
The dog-meat festival has been an annual tradition in Jinhua, China, since 1389 however, this year 2011 dog-meat festival was cancelled following Tens of thousands of Internet protests from all over the world and growing animal activism in China.
