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Eateries in Chinese Town Hold Dog Meat Festival Amid Outcry

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the woof dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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, Informative) by janrinok on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:51PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:51PM (#200352) Journal

    which hasn't happened in decades

    I agree with the sentiment of your post but have to dispute the facts: this source [wikipedia.org] states:

    [The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) set harvest quotas of over 90,000 seals in 2007; 275,000 in 2008; 280,000 in 2009; and 330,000 in 2010.[2] The actual kills in recent years have been less than the quotas: 82,800 in 2007; 217,800 in 2008; 72,400 in 2009; and 67,000 in 2010

    Five years (since the wiki article reported such things - it may have happened more recently too) is hardly 'decades ago'.

    There are, of course, many other countries who actively pursue seal hunting, I have only used the Canadian figures to make my point.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:47PM (#200433)

    I believe Vanderhoth was meaning specifically that the clubbing of baby seals hasn't been done in decades.
    But shooting giant balls of blubber with a high-powered rifle doesn't tug the public's heart-strings quite like the vision of an evil man with a raised club, standing over an innocent pup.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Vanderhoth on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:19PM

      by Vanderhoth (61) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:19PM (#200452)

      I can see where the confusion was, but yes, I was referring to clubbing baby seals specifically.

      Mainly because when someone tries to protest the sealing industry there's a couple of specific images they they use, normally of baby seals, to tug at people's heart strings.

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