I will be up in Canada next week. Toronto-Montreal area. It is kind of ironic as I am going and he's coming back, but will be interesting.

So as a forewarning Chapter 9-the end will be delayed in posting until next Saturday of Language of Love.

As for the story:

I know Chapter 7 touched on a foreign local hot button issues that most of you guys probably either don't care about or don't even realized existed. Dog meat consumption is a Chinese cultural problem; it's a complex issue, which I do not want to take sides in. Somehow, the conversation went from my dead dog to dog meat and it inspired this chapter.

I don't support dog meat, but I also don't like the way it was outlawed either. Sure, animal rights groups, many of them situated and funded in the US, can pressure the Chinese government to outlaw a traditional staple food, but what about all the other groups? IF one day, Fred Phelps and his ilk become multibillionaires, instead of just nutcases, should China ban all gays just to make it more "suitable"? Ask yourself whether this is really the right way to solve the world's problems, by forcing your own values on another people, who may or may not agree to a change.

This is not a positive outcome of westernization, but a forceful invasion of moral values on a traditional practice. The practice needs to change, not outlawed so Western tourists and companies will feel more at home in China. Where's self-determination?