MAN’S BEST MEAL

Of course we won’t have to resort to cannibalism as long as there are plenty of dogs around. Like in South Korea where the government has proposed reclassifying dogs as livestock in order to set food safety standards for the meat. Supposedly between two and four million dogs are eaten in South Korea each year, but at the moment there are no safety standards for the processing of the meat in order to protect the health of consumers. "Dogs are consumed in their millions in this country every year. That's a fact. We have to take care of this situation," said the head of the city government's department of food safety. (AFP)