South Korea’s president on Monday floated the idea of imposing a ban on eating dog meat, a traditional yet controversial practice decried by animal rights activists but defended by farmers who want to retain the right to raise dogs as livestock. The remarks from South Korean President Moon Jae-in came after he was briefed by the country’s Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on efforts to improve the handling of abandoned animals and a mandatory registration system for dogs. “After the briefing, he said time has come to carefully consider imposing a dog meat ban,” the president’s spokeswoman Park Kyung-mee said in a statement. This was the first time that Moon has raised a ban, with his comments coming as South Korea’s presidential campaign heats up ahead of the March 2022 election. Several candidates have, in recent weeks, weighed in on prohibiting dog meat consumption, with the opposition frontrunner defending the practice as …