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[DiipuSurotu]

Chinese authorities have banned dog meat sales at the country’s notorious Yulin dog-eating festival, two U.S. nonprofit organizations reported Wednesday.

The annual festival in Yulin — a prefecture-level city in southwest China’s Guangxi province — has in recent years emerged as a lightning rod for animal rights activism, granting the sleepy city a degree of global infamy. Activists say thousands of dogs — some of them abducted pets — are slaughtered at the festival each year; they’re served alongside lychees and grain alcohol to mark the summer solstice.

The Yulin government has banned the city’s dog meat vendors from selling the meat for one week starting June 15, the U.S.-based Duo Duo Animal Welfare Project and Humane Society International (HSI) said in a joint statement, citing unidentified local contacts. The 10-day festival is slated to begin on June 21.

"It is embarrassing to us that the world wrongly believes that the brutally cruel Yulin festival is part of Chinese culture. It isn't."
— Qin Xiaona, director of the Capital Animal Welfare Assn. charity, a Chinese animal welfare group

More at: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-dog-meat-20170518-story.html

Eat pork if old

 

[Brannon]

Say what you want about eating dogs, but when you start stealing other peoples' pets?

They did it to themselves right there.

 

[dallow_bg]

So it's a dog meat festival but dog meat sales are now banned.
Is there still a festival?

 

[Fat4all]

pink guy will have to update his song

 

[PataHikari]

Ok what.

Sure it's one thing to eat dog. I don't want to do it but that's their culture.

But stealing other people's pets? Why?

 

[Strangelove77]

You can't have a dog meat festival without dog meat. It defeats the whole purpose of the dog meat festival. You might as well ban the entire dog meat festival and not just the selling of dog meat at that point.

 

[Sumio Mondo]

Good. The stuff they do at this "festival" is barbaric and horrific beyond belief.

 

[TheGameshark]

Pink guy exposed them

 

[thesoapster]

Ok what.

Sure it's one thing to eat dog. I don't want to do it but that's their culture.

But stealing other people's pets? Why?

I personally don't find eating dog to be particularly detestable. From what I've been told, dogs kept as pets are fancier breeds etc. compared to the dogs usually used for meat. So, maybe that has something to do with it. That or inability to meet demand.

 

[MikeHattsu]

Temporary ban just for the week leading up to the festival?

The Yulin government has banned the city’s dog meat vendors from selling the meat for one week starting June 15.

The 10-day festival is slated to begin on June 21.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

But stealing other people's pets? Why?

Better shape = better meat

You can't have a dog meat festival without dog meat. It defeats the whole purpose of the dog meat festival. You might as well ban the entire dog meat festival and not just the selling of dog meat at that point.

If you just ban the festival they would just sell the meat outside of the festival lol

 

[shira]

Temporary ban just for the week leading up to the festival?

"That ought to get the foreign press off our back"

 

[Dynomutt]

Next we have to shut down that Okja factory.

 

[disappeared]

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[Strangelove77]

Better shape = better meat



If you just ban the festival they would just sell the meat outside of the festival lol

Yes. They are a clever bunch...

 

[ColdLasagna]

Good. The stuff they do at this "festival" is barbaric and horrific beyond belief.

This times infinity.

 

[InfiniteBento]

Good. The stuff they do at this "festival" is barbaric and horrific beyond belief.

Exactly how I feel when it comes to festivals/events with mass slaughtering of animals

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Exactly how I feel when it comes to festivals/events with mass slaughtering of animals

Thanksgiving?

 

[Tagyhag]

Good. Should just ban the sale of dog meat period.

I'm all for respecting people's cultures but stealing the pets of others? Boiling them alive?

There's a line being crossed there.

 

[Skux]

Temporary ban just for the week leading up to the festival?

To get people really hankering for dog meat.

 

[Sliver]

Thanksgiving?

Read about what they do at this festival before throwing out this nonsense.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Obviously, stealing people's pets for food should be forbidden and heavily penalized.

But since high populations of stray dogs is an issue in many areas, killing them for meat is probably a good source for meat from a climate point of view. Since they are going to grow whether you want them to or not, meat from strays should be much less energy intensive than meat from factory farms. As long as steps can be taken taken to eliminate spread of diseases like rabies, consumption of meat from stray dogs should be encouraged as a climate friendly alternative to beef and pork

 

[Circinus]

I don't think eating dogs is more objectionable than eating cows, pigs, sheep, horses, chickens. (not saying, either is ethically perfectly right, however)

Though considering some of the dogs are stolen pets and the way they're slaughtered, this is probably a good thing.

 

[Shiggy]

Animal rights groups say dog meat has been banned at a controversial festival in China, but local restaurants claim they haven’t heard anything about the purported prohibition.

Thousands of dogs are traditionally killed during the festival in conditions activists describe as brutal, with dogs beaten and boiled alive in the belief that the more terrified they are, the tastier the meat.

But restaurant owners contacted by AFP on Friday said they had not been told about the temporary veto.

“Our restaurant is open as usual. We haven’t heard of a dog meat ban,” an employee of the Longmen restaurant said.

An employee at Feilao restaurant said: “We don’t know about the ban. We are open every day.”

Even a city government official claimed to be unaware of the prohibition.

But HSI said it had confirmed the ban with sellers at the city’s main dog meat market.

A Chinese animal rights activist, who asked not to be named, said she had also been told that sales of canine flesh would be outlawed during the event.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/05/...tival-ban-bark-no-bite-say-yulin-restaurants/


So perhaps it's not true. Even if it was, they'd just sell it as chicken or beef.