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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:37PM
> A better parallel would be a beef BBQ festival and people in India not being happy about the idea.
This.
Muslims and Jews don't eat pork because they think the meat is contaminated - and there is historical justification for it, trichinosis [wikipedia.org] which is still a problem in third world countries. They don't care if pigs are intelligent, look cute or are mistreated by the pork industry, they just think they are inherently unclean.