BOY SOLD TO RESTAURANT AS DOG MEAT

[AussieMark]

Boy Sold to Restaurant as Dog Meat

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese drug addicts kidnapped a mute teenager, bundled him in a sack and sold him to a dog-meat eatery as a stray canine, state media said on Saturday.
The Gia Dinh Xa Hoi (Family and Society) newspaper said the two addicts grabbed the homeless 13-year-old from a busy market in Halong city.

Halong, around 90 miles from the capital, Hanoi, attracts hordes of tourists to its spectacular bay and rock formations, a United Nations heritage site.

The kidnappers tied up the boy, bundled him into a sack and sold him to the restaurant for $19, the newspaper said.

The restaurateur, shocked to find the boy, fed him and released him.

Police were investigating the case but had made no arrests, said the newspaper, mouthpiece of the state Population, Family and Children Committee.

Dog meat is a delicacy in parts of China and in some other Asian countries such as Korea, Cambodia, Indonesia and Laos. In Vietnam, eating specifically farmed breeds is believed to bring health benefits and is seen as auspicious.

Early in November, Thai police rescued more than 800 dogs from smugglers who were taking the animals to Vietnam to sell for meat.

[hunter84]

Man I was thinking the worst when I saw the headline.

[StormCrazyIowan]

Oh man, so was I!!

[Lindaloo]

You should see how they stuff those dogs in their rolling bamboo carts!! It is sickening.

I can't believe they did that to this poor handicapped boy.

[TexasStooge]

Why do they do that stuff in the first place???!!!

[MScoast]

how sick can someone get!

[stormchazer]

Makes you think hard before you eat that Viet food.

[JCT777]

Makes you think hard before you eat that Viet food.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[Amanzi]

That is so repulsive! Why would anyone want to eat a dog!!!! yuck just thinking about it... Im sure they are rather cruel to those poor animals as well (not like a farmed cow) I wish I could go rescue all of them.

Poor kid must have been really shook up.

[raine]

To us it's disgusting to digest a hound....in another country, another culture it's not disgusting to them.In fact the things we eat in our country are gross and disgusting to other people...ie:shrimp, beef, lobster...so forth and so on.As for that young boy....if we think things are bad here in America with homelessness and such, all we need to do is see or read something like that to make us ever so grateful for the blessings we have in America.Sadly the kidnapping of that boy and his subsequent sale to that owner happen all the time in those countries... and things worse than that.

Blessings, Raine