Dear\nEditor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\nam writing to express my opinion about dog-eating which is referring to your\narticle you have posted in the SCMP recently. In my view, as dog-eating have\nbecome very popular for a few years, it means that many dogs are\nsacrificed. I agree that dog-eating\nshould be banned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First and foremost, eating dogs may cause\nrabies. In the Philippines,\napproximately 10,000 dogs and 300 people are killed by rabies<\/a>\neach year. Workers can easily be\ninfected<\/a> with rabies during\nslaughter and spread the disease to other dogs and humans alike. Saliva from an infected animal can\nalso transmit rabies if the saliva comes into contact with the eyes, mouth or\nnose. Dogs are the most common animal involved. If human contacts an infected dog, he\nwill get rabies too. It is too easy to be infected. We can see that the consequences after eating dogs are\nserious. However, we do not know which dogs get rabies and which do not. In my\nopinion, if dog-eating is banned, everyone can avoid getting rabies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A\nfew people may argue that if dog-eating should be banned, pig-eating and\ncow-eating should also be banned as well because all animals should be treated\nequally. However, I cannot agree with this. The key is actually based on the\nrelationship between the person and the animal, but not only the type of\nanimal. Many people keep pets like dogs, but not cows and pigs. As time flies,\ntheir relationship changes from master and pet to friends. The main point is\nthat dogs are regarded as human\u2019s friends. When people treat dogs as friends,\nthey will not treat it cruelly as if everyone will not hit or kill their\nfriends. Seeing other dogs are being eaten, people will treat them as their own\nfriends too because they are both dogs. It is same for other animals too. I\nthink that only people who treat pigs or cows as friends have the right to\nargue whether pig-eating or cow-eating should be banned. As people treat dogs\nas their friends, they do not want their friends be eaten. On the other hand,\nif people eat some animals that most people will not make friends with them,\nlike frogs, people will not care about it. Therefore, banning dog-eating is a\nmust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Last but not least, dogs help\nhuman very much. For example, guide dogs help the blind people to lead the\nway. As blind people cannot see anything, guide dogs are their most reliable\npartner. Without guide dogs, blind people may feel scared when he goes out.\nAlso, police dogs help policemen to subdue thieves when policemen are fighting\nwith thieves. If people keep eating dogs, it reduces the number of dogs which\nmay become guide dogs or police dogs. Then, less blind people can own a guide\ndog and less policemen can own a police dog. From this, it can be seen that\ndogs are important to people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In conclusion, as dogs may get rabies,\nshouldn\u2019t we eat them? As dogs are human\u2019s friends, shouldn\u2019t we eat them? As\ndogs are helpful, shouldn\u2019t we eat them? If dog-eating is banned, dogs can\nserve more people. If dog-eating is banned, our friends can stay alive. If\ndog-eating is banned, we can reduce the chance of getting rabies. As a result, I\nthink that dog-eating should be banned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mandy Lam <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DeaEditor<\/p> am writing to express my opinion about dog-eating which is referring to youarticle you have posted in the SCMP recently. In my view, as dog-eating havbecome very popular for a few years, it means that many dogs arsacrificed. I agree that dog-eatinshould be banned.<\/p>