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Old 10-06-2004, 11:12 AM  
Elli
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Some Asian cultures recognize certain dog breeds as food animals, whereas other breeds are kept as pets.

They need to have more humane laws enforced to control how they treat their animals, but I think it's hard to do that with such a huge population.

Guangzhou:
Population: 6.66 million
Urban Population: 3.95 million
Area: 7,434 sq km

"There is a Cantonese saying: "We eat everything on the ground with four legs except tables and chairs. We eat everything in the sky except airplanes." Cantonese cuisine includes almost all edible food in addition to the staples of pork, beef and chicken -- snakes, snails, insects, worms, chicken feet, duck tongues, ox genitals, and entrails. A subject of controversy amongst Westerners, dogs are raised as food in some places in China, though this is not a common food one finds in restaurants, and is illegal in Hong Kong and will soon be in Taiwan."
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