Korea: Seoul Moves to Classify Dogs As Livestock - 2 Million Dogs Consumed by Koreans Annually

The move was designed to take care of dog meat in a hygenic way in slaughtering and processing the meat of 'human's best friends'

Seoul City Administration recently decided to put dogs into the category of livestock. And for that it said it would recommend it to the central govermnent for the official approval, a local daily Chosun Ilbo reported on March 24, 2008.

A Seoul city official was quoted as sayig "there are 528 dog meat restaurants in Seoul alone, and the number of dog meat restaurants increases to 600 on Dog Days during the summer."........

Source: 2 Million Dogs Consumed by Koreans Annually

Link: Video - 'dogs for food'