Despite worldwide outcry and repeated efforts by animal activists to put an end to the Yulin Dog Eating Festival, a yearly tradition in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region of China, the festival, deeply rooted in ancient Chinese tradition, will begin June 21, 2015.
Yulin residents cherish the annual summer solstice celebration, which involves the mass torture, slaughter, and consumption of about 10,000 dogs.
The Guardian, a UK-based news source said in an article,
A dog, most likely a stolen family pet, is burned alive for his meat. Image via Ricky Gervais/Facebook.
A dog, most likely a stolen family pet, is burned alive for his meat. Image via Ricky Gervais/Facebook.
Animal rights groups say 10,000 dogs are slaughtered during the festival each year, and that many are electrocuted, burned and skinned alive. Pictures posted online show flayed dogs, dogs hanging from meat hooks, and piles of dog corpses on the side of the road. In China dog meat is prized as a nutritious wintertime dish that doctors can prescribe to treat maladies such as impotence and poor circulation.
Let's stop this horrifying festival that happens every year for one whole week, ten's of thousands of dogs and most of them belong to pet owners get boiled alive, torched alive butchered alive, skinned alive. And it doesn't phase these Chinese people at all. They have no heart at all. They should all be punished. There should be a law against this. So lets all sign this and take the steps to make it law!
Update #37 years ago
I can't believe that they get away with this in Yulin. I know the picture is very explicit, and I am truly sorry for that. I shouldn't of put it up, but I thought it would get my Care2 friends attention in what's going on, and what we can do. I thank you for all your signatures from my heart.
Update #28 years ago
The dogs get butchered alive, skinned alive,burned alive with a torch, boiled alive with their mouths taped with electricians tape, so you can't hear them bark and yelp in terror and pain.Please lets come together as a big group and make Prince Charles to make it against the law for the Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival that goes on once a year to go on! Thank You.
Update #18 years ago
a lot of these dogs are boiled alive, burned alive with a torch, skinned alive, butchered alive with their mouths taped shut with with electricians tape. It is so horrifying that I didn't even want to put to put up the picture. Let's Come together and sign this petition to make it against the law to hold The Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival!!!!!! Thank You!
