Dog meat eating festival?

Not in the Philippines. Many Filipinos do not deny they eat dog meat. Particularly those living in the northern provinces - the Ilocandias including Bagiuo city the summer capital of the country Dog meat frolickers say they do not eat dog meat just for fun or if only to fill their hunger at such time, as many in the central and southern gegions might have thought. The Ilocanos say the meat promote good health and stamina to keep your body fit and comfortably warm. In Bagiuo city there is a place "Kuya Et Resto Specialty Asocena". The place might be too small for the fine dinning restaurant, but it is patronized by dog meat lovers both residents and local tourists. The coined word Asocena means 'Aso local term for dog and cena from kosina', dog kitchen. There are two favorite menu s caldereta and papaitan. The innards thoroughly cleansed and chopped to size and the skin with all hair removed by torching and thoroughly washed, and chopped to size. Then the boiling takes about 45 minutes with all the ingredients and local flavorings added then last but not the least the fish-bile of the local milk-fish to enhanch the bitter and acrid taste (papait) papaitan. And voila what a feast!
Slaughtering dogs in the Philippines is not allowed by existing laws and ordinances. But dog buyers from the north have contacts in Metro Manila and transactions go by the truckloads of 300 heads and over of the helpless canines. The buyers just play around with the law enforcers that the busines are still going on. Small-time corruption yes but the protest from dog lovers seemed hard to ignore.
Let us go up farther north in South Korea where the climate is harse during winter time but their over-all business climate is acclaimed by many in the world as one of the most prosperous country in Asia by their rapid and progressive industrialization. Thus changing the standards of living of its citizens. So, what is the connect? you might asked.
Korean people (maybe not all of them) are dog meat eaters. But unlike in the Philippines Korean dog meats comes from clean dog farms put up by private investors intended for the local meat consumption. At present there over six hundred farms independently managed by Korean Dog Raisers Association. At a nearby town in Seoul where the supposed dog meat eating festival was to be held only recently but only to be cancelled because of so many protests from dog lover militants in many countries. " If we went on with this festivals we Koreans might become the embarassment of the world," said a Korean cocerned citizen.
Today, Koreans are coming to the Philippines in big number not to look for employment but to put up business everywhere. If some reports are true some are buying farms for dog raising (not for pet lovers) but for the meat industry both in the local and for export into their own country. What da ya say Lolo Ampong?