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The Politics of Dog. (Correspondence).

American Prospect, The,  July, 2002  by Wolch, Jennifer

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IN JOHN FEFFER'S ARTICLE "The Politics of Dog" [June 3], Feffer correctly argues that in the context of globalization and transnational immigration, practices that are normalized in one region, such as dog eating, can become controversial in another and can be used for purposes of immigrant racialization.

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What Feffer does not discuss--inexcusably--is what the dog slaughter industry actually does. He only says that dog slaughter is "not a pretty sight." This hardly captures the process by which dogs are kept chained and caged, then beaten and flayed alive in ...

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