Posted on July 13, 2008 by Thorsten
There will be no dog meat in Beijing restaurants during the Olympics.
According to this weekend’s edition of China Daily (the country’s English language newspaper), the city’s 112 officially designated Olympic restaurants have been banned from selling dog meat during the Olympics.
The paper continues that non-designated restaurants have also been encouraged not to serve the meat.
“Dog [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2008 by Thorsten
I’m a vegetarian. I don’t eat meat. And though I don’t like the smell of raw meat at butcher shops, it usually doesn’t bother me very much.
But when I looked around an open-air market in Hanoi today, I did get slightly nauseous in one corner of the market. I came across something that I [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2008 by Thorsten
I got my hair cut today, and just as I stepped out the door of the store, a little old lady walked by on the sidewalk with her lapdog.
My opening the door and stepping out of the barbershop rather quickly must have startled the dog.
Maybe it was just surprised to see that humans can move [...]
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