I waited for sometimes to write about this because I could not even look at the pictures on the site. Now I see that the page is missing from Pattayadailynews.com website so I can finally write about it. The pictures was two dogs hanging like chickens in a food stall like when you go buy chicken and rice in Thailand. But in this case it was dog and rice and you clearly see the dogs with the heads everything hanging on hooks with no hair.
In this article a journalist went up to Nakhon Phanom and the small majority Catholic village of Ta Rae to investigate the dog trade. Normally Thai Buddhist would not get involved in this trader and it probably took serve poverty to force them to kill and butcher dogs.
Most of the dog meat goes to Vietnam and are sold for $10 a dog and the profit most be huge since the dogs are free.
As usual in Thailand this illegal trade can go on because the politicians and police are getting money from it and they are closing their eyes. They must close them pretty hard since big trucks are leaving daily to the border.
From my perspective the dog has long been a helper to the human beings and not a food product as pig and cow, we have domesticated the dog and made it our pets, and we should not eat pets.
If you want to see the pictures you can just search on Google for this village and dog trade and you will find many different articles and movies.
