High food prices in Cambodia increase dog meat consumption

[Coventina]

Source: Radio Australia

The consumption of dog meat is said to be increasing in Cambodia as higher food prices cutting into the livelihoods of the poor.

Planning Minister Chhay Than says high oil prices pushed Cambodia's annual inflation rate to 22 per cent in July, the highest in 15 years and that this is seriously affecting Cambodia's poor.

The chief of the Phnom Penh Municipal Veterinary Office says sales of dog meat are definitely increasing.

He says it's hard to estimate the size of the trade the meat is sold outside traditional markets for less than half the price of pork.



Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2375310.htm?tab=asia

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I hope this article doesn't start a flame war. I'm posting it to show that high oil prices hurt not just Americans but everyone all over the world.

I'm a vegetarian, so I wouldn't eat pork either, but I also would never stand in judgement of desperately poor and hungry people who need to feed their children something.

I was in Cambodia earlier this year, and I came back a changed woman.

We need to end our global dependence on oil! The planet can't wait!

[WriteDown]

1. Easier said than done...

we can decrease vehicle consumption, but EVERYTHING is made out of petroleum.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I think their veiw of what we regards, righly so, as pets

has always differed from ours.