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Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town are holding an annual dog meat festival despite international criticism.
Eateries reached by phone in Yulin reported brisk business Sunday during the event marking the summer solstice. They say eating dog meat is traditional, while activists say the festival has no cultural value and was invented to drum up business.
As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets, are slaughtered for the occasion held deep in the largely rural and poor Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Celebrities such as British comedian Ricky Gervais and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen have called for an end to the festival.
Dog is eaten in some parts of China but is not a common dish.
Be careful when ordering the 'hot dog.' Incidentally, 'hot dog' is also Mandarin slang for 'cop.' Complex eaters, the Chinese.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by TheRaven on Wednesday June 24 2015, @11:22AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:22PM
That's not really the standard though. Westerners will eat lambs [tumblr.com], goats [parade.com], and calves [imgur.com], all of which can be reasonably cute animals, and not go "eww". I think it has a lot more to do with the fact that a lot more westerners own dogs than own sheep, so when they think of eating dog, it's "but that's dear Fido", whereas when they think of eating lambs they mostly don't think about where it comes from.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:28PM
That was certainly my first thought. Pig is no better or worse than Dog when everything else is equal. However, that appears not to be the actual cause of outcry. The Dog angle is just being played up for the ewww-gross click-baiteyness.
A few quotes from the article:
...despite international criticism of the event as cruel and unhygienic.
As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets,...
activists had witnessed dogs being maltreated in a Yulin slaughterhouse on Sunday mornin
"A man would go in the cage with a club and just start clubbing the dogs, just beating them and beating them, not killing them at that point ... the dogs are screaming and trying to get away and it's really heartbreaking."
"I saw a Dalmatian and a chow and many dogs wearing collars that indicated the likelihood they were stolen pets,"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:48AM
Other than that, let people eat dogs as much as people eat pigs, cows, etc.
(Score: 1) by Type44Q on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:11PM
That's not really the standard though. Westerners will eat lambs, goats, and calves
More to the point, we'll* eat pigs, which are even smarter than dogs. Still, dogs hold a special place in human history; we essentially created them from wolves and they were critical to our existence for a hundred thousand (or more) years; as far as I'm concerned, anybody who'd eat a dog for culinary purposes (as opposed to survival) should be shot.
I, personally, wouldn't eat a pig, either, nor any mammal (too much kindship, among other reasons).