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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Insightful) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:26PM
From what I heard, piglets are as intelligent and as compassionate as dogs, when raised in a similar way. Therefore, as much as I like dogs as pets while appreciating a good pork-chop for food, I have to admit I'm not logical about this.
What bothers me more is, that
However, I understand the fact that "western" butcheries often also mistreat the animals already prior to the actual killing, and the meat production industry can be considered a whole life of torture for the animals. Therefore I'm a bit double-minded about the dog-feast. I hate it, but I'm afraid it makes me a hypocrite if I condemn it...
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