Indian wants dogs in soup

NEW DELHI: New Delhi’s stray dogs lead a difficult life. But if it was up to one city councillor, they would have find themselves in more hot water – soup to be precise.

Shipping the thousands of strays to Korea, where dog meat is widely consumed in soup, was one of the more outlandish ideas proposed at a city council meeting to deal with the problem, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported yesterday.

City councilor Mohan Prashad Bharadwaj said he had read that Koreans are fond of dog meat and “maybe we can send all the stray dogs of Delhi there”, the paper quoted him as saying. AP

Source: the Bangkok Post – Thailand, 17-8-2007

Collected by Antoni P. Uni – Bangkok 17-8-2007