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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, @09:07PM
Why do you make a distinction between plant life and animal life? They are both valuable to me. I accept that I must kill in order to live. Why do you not care about plant life when you have such strong feelings about animal life?
The usual argument that consuming animals is a greater loss of life because they eat plants does not hold weight. Humans kill plants when we harvest them to be eaten. Many of our most common food animals are browsers or similar; i.e. they do not kill the plants they eat. From a perspective of preservation of the most life, choosing to eat meat from animals that do not kill plants is only one life lost while choosing to replace that with vegetarianism costs the lives of hundreds.
Could it be that you simply like animals more than plants and thus value one's life more than the other? These celebrities are doing the same thing in favoring the life of one animal over another animal.