People call it racist, I call it poignant. Would I be offended if someone did something like that about Koreans eating dogs? A commercial where you see a Japanese guy playing a Korean business man and ordering the full dog soup experience? Where you see him being dragged into the back room, beaten alive to to get his adrenaline pumping, and then turned into stew? I would say, not really….
The day I’d be offended of what’s part my culture is the day I hide the fact I like Kimchee or that Korea has a long streak of corrupt presidents. I’d probably support the commercial since I don’t like the idea that some Koreans enjoy eating dog like as if it gives them a stronger libido or beating it alive makes it tastier. In fact, I think it’s a stupid gimmick for anyone to think that a dead wet dog equals better sex or that being sadistic is a culinary art form. If anyone dare try to turn my dog into soup, I’d kick their ass.
I may have eaten Sannakji, which may come off as sadistic…but the animal is already dead. It’s just the nerves that are still alive. However, like the Eskimos who kill one seal to feed a whole family, that octopus fed two people. None of it was wasted.
If that beer company continues that campaign, they should be fair and point out that other nations are just as bad as the Japanese. Even if they don’t really care about Whale hunting and are just looking to be edgy in bad taste, they should at least be smart enough to move towards that angle.
Anyways, I don’t like the reality that Japan and other nations are killing thousands of Whales and dolphins for “research” and canned consumption with an expiration date. It’s wasteful and just shows how selfish humans are. We already have a system of domesticating animals and harvesting fish through farms, why can’t these fatheads be content with that? It’s the best way to live within our means without having to worry about depleting our natural resources.
And to go off on a tangent, I hate it when rednecks call hunting a sport. It’s not a sport when you wear camouflage, hide in the bushes, and pick off wild animals from a 100 yards away using a projectile. On the ESPN network, I saw a hunting show where a hunter is breathing hard after a kill, like as if he just ran a marathon. Are you freaking kidding me? Who breathes hard standing still? I’ll call it a sport when they actually walk up to the wild beast, who’s been surviving on it’s own by natural means for years, and take it down with their bare hands. Only then would it be a sport, because they aren’t using any enhancements to gain an edge over something that would normally kick their ass to hell.
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