Puppy Saved from Being Eaten at Yulin Dog Meat Festival

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/dog-saved-from-being-eaten-at-yulin-dog-festival.html


Kara, selected from ecorazzi July 4, 2014 3:00 pm




Scout, an adorable puppy destined to be killed and eaten at the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, in Guangxi, China, was bought from a vendor, and saved from his fate by animal activists.

The June 21 festival, which is regarded as a local custom to mark the summer solstice, consists of people filling the streets eating dog meat and lychee, and drinking hard liquor. “Each June in recent years, more than 10,000 dogs were slaughtered for the festival as tourists flooded the streets to enjoy the feasting,” wrote the South China Morning Post.

Dogs who are sold as meat arrive in Yulin crammed in narrow cages and stacked on big trucks during transports of as much as seven hundred miles, leaving the dogs sick, dehydrated, and sometimes dead.

Animal welfare advocates estimate that as many as one in ten of the dogs traded for meat in China are stolen pets. According to research carried out over a year at Yulin’s dog meat market, released by the Guangdong-based animal rights NGO Best Volunteer Centre, the city had more than a hundred slaughterhouses, processing between thirty and a hundred dogs a day. “We believe 99 percent of these dogs in Yulin were stolen from other provinces and transported to Yulin illegally, instead of being raised at legal dog farms,” said Huang Shandai, the NGO’s founder.


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[TreasonousBastard]

1. "Legal dog farms"?

[Action_Patrol]

2. This is not hostility,

But what part of the quote didnt you like?
Western cultures don't tend to eat dogs but there are plenty of others that do.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I am aware of that. It's just that...

to my Western sensibilities, and I assume I am not alone, this stands out.

[Action_Patrol]

9. Hard to get upset at this

When we also have factory farming. It's no different.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. We don't factory farm companion animals...

and here in the US horses also fall into that category.

[Action_Patrol]

11. Semantics

Pigs are intelligent. We eat them.
Ever hear of Schott leather? Great jackets. All made in the USA. You can choose horse or steer hide.
It's just silly to get upset when it's something you want to pet.

[hollysmom]

12. I know, but I have stopped eating pork unless under family duress.

I met someone with a pet pig and fell in love with them. so sweet. I think I am slowly turning vegetarian, very slowly, maybe by the time I die. My niece is going through the same thing, she claims to just eat chicken, but I told her I was more afraid for me to eat chickens and get sick than pity for the birds, although that exists in me as well. Too bad I eat less and less fish, but the waters are getting worse and worse, so, something has to go. I really miss eating shrimp, but child slavery to fish them, not my favorite way to get food. It is hard enough to limit to free trade chocolate.

[Action_Patrol]

14. Very true

Like I said above, i was not being hostile in the slightest. Just conversing.
I was mostly vegan for 3 years due to my two housemates being vegan. We bought groceries and cooked for the group. I do eat meat but I try to cut back.

[adigal]

13. I guess "legal dog farms" makes it ok?

As a dog rescuer for the last 7 years, this makes me ill. We will never win the battle against the monsters in the world.

[TBF]

3. Good lord. nt

[Arugula Latte]

4. I also think intelligent, adorable baby animals like these should be saved from US factory farms:

[KamaAina]

5. Why don't they just use hot dogs instead?

Joey Chestnut could use it as a tune-up for the Nathan's contest on July 4.

[Omaha Steve]

6. Lets not forget in Obama's book he talks about he ate dog while in the orient

It just isn't for me.

[scarystuffyo]

7. No words for this one

[Lancero]

15. Honestly, if you eat ANY kind of meat and feel disgust over this...

You are a grade A hypocrite.

Different cultures see animals differently. A companion animal in one is food in another, and food in one is a companion in the other.