(mimochodem - odcerveni snad provedes zaroven s vyvrhnutim, ne? Nebo ty nechavas tu chutnou nadivku vevnitr??)
020555 Brigitte Bardot Death Threats Over Dog Meat
May 27, 2002
Vienna - French actress-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot she had been sent thousands of
death threats for criticizing the South Korean practice of eating dog.
Bardot angered some South Koreans last year when she said she planned to distribute protest pictures
depicting the torture of dogs before the upcoming 2002 World Cup soccer finals, which begin in Korea and
Japan later this month.
"I have received 7,000 death threats...they are furious with me for my criticism and have said, 'this is our
traditional culture," Bardot said.
Dogmeat-eating, popular in Korea and among Chinese communities, has emerged as a knotty issue for
image-conscious South Korea, co-hosting the World Cup finals with Japan.
But Bardot, who was in Austria to receive an award for her animal rights activism, made it clear she
would not be silenced.
"Eating dogs is not culture, it's grotesque. Culture is composing music like Mozart or building buildings
like you see here in Vienna," she said.
Some dogs are specially bred in South Korea to be eaten, notably in "poshintang," literally "body
preservation stew," which advocates say is good for health and is considered a delicacy by some. Only 16
per cent of dogs in South Korea are bred as pets.
