A canine butcher is a butcher shop specializing in the sale and processing of dog meat.
Over the centuries, the consumption of dog meat has occurred, usually as a result of hardship, but sometimes as part of a culture. As a result, shops specializing in dog meat have opened.
In France, during the Franco-Prussian War, butcheries of dogs opened, along with butcheries of many other strange animals, due to food shortages caused by the war and the Siege of Paris. [1]
Dog butchers existed in the Netherlands, as an advertisement for a "hondeslagerij" from 1928 attests. [2]
In Yulin, Guangxi, canine butcher shops slaughter around 300 dogs a day. During a dog meat festival in 2010, reactions were heavily divided between animal rights advocates and dog meat lovers.[3] However, the practice of eating dogs is slowly dying out due to pressure from the growing middle class in China, who prefer keeping dogs as pets over eating them. As a result, the number of canine butchers is dwindling year by year. [4]
The largest dog butchery in South Korea, located in Seongnam, closed in May 2017. [5]