Chinese people eat dogs

Look. I've lived in an area where (some) people eat dog, seen dogs in cages and seen skinned dog hanging at the butcher stands in farmers markets. So, at least four years ago, I can verify that there were still people eating dogs in parts of China. True. But when I traveled to other provinces, I didn't see this happen. The areas where people still eat dog in China are very few. Even where I lived, eating dog wasn't a deeply held part of their culture or especially symbolic or anything (like I've heard it is in Korea). It's just that they ate pretty much every animal except for a type of hard shelled turtle. And it tended to be mostly old people. About half of the young people I knew (which is, admittedly, a biased sample) would not eat dog meat. In my region, the dog they did eat was a special breed of dog bred for food not companionship, which makes it difficult to argue that it's more unethical than eating similarly intelligent animals like pigs. Equating China to eating dogs is like equating America to eating foie gras. Yes, it's definitely served in some restaurants and some people eat it, but the vast majority of people haven't and wouldn't eat it. If someone said, "Americans eat foie gras!" they'd be correct on a shallow level, but wrong on the deeper level. Jumping straight to the "Chinese people eat dogs!" line all non-sequitur comes off as immature and uninformed, at best.