We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info. The annual ten-day event can be traced back to and it is believed between 10, and 15, dogs are slaughtered for the festival. Yulin as been slammed by animal rights activists who are looking for new ways to pressurise organisers to cancel the event.
Activists say the dog meat trade is inhumane and unhygienic, pointing to videos of dogs caught with wire lassos, transported in tiny cages and slaughtered with metal rods. Dog meat is a traditional food in some areas of southern China, where it is believed to be good for the body in warm weather.
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Popular customs themselves cannot be right or wrong. I hope people can look at this objectively. People in the southern city of China defend eating the meat as it is a way to celebrate the summer solstice.
Eating dogs is not illegal in China with around 10 to 20 million killed for human consumption every year and even thought the festival is new the custom can be traced back at least years.
The Yulin Municipal Government has repeatedly said it is not able to stop the festival as it claims it does not exist as an official event. Calls from animal lovers to boycott or cancel the festival provoked a defence of local tradition and accusations that activists were disturbing public order.
