Every June, the southern Chinese city of Yulin “celebrates” the summer solstice with a dog-eating festival. Animal-rights activists estimate that around 10,000 dogs are killed every year for the festival, where they’re consumed along with lychees and grain alcohol. Some dogs are strays while others are stolen pets, and breeds range from Dalmatians to Labradors to Tibetan Mastiffs.
Last year, some festival-goers started early to avoid the protesters, who didn’t succeed in shutting down the 2014 festival but did drive up the price of meat.
Located in Yulin City, the “Big Market” is the largest trading centre for live dogs, some of which will end up on the dining table. The city government has not taken a stance on the dog-eating festival, instead simply stating that they have no connection to it.
As the festival approaches, dog-meat traders kill live dogs for customers in the slaughterhouse while others do so right on the street. The dog-eating is concentrated on this street in Yulin. From 6 p.m. until midnight, the streets are flooded with dog-meat eaters. Some traders offer one-stop service to customers, from slaughtering live dogs to processing the meat to selling it.
Activists attempt to stop dog traders from going to the market by negotiating with them. The activists purchase dogs to “save” them, but many traders use this as a business opportunity to sell dogs to them for above-market price.
Dogs are stolen, transported for large distances in crushed conditions, then tortured until they die.
Last year, thanks to overwhelming international pressure, Yulin authorities announced that they would not support the festival. The result was a subdued event and fewer dogs slaughtered than the previous two years. More recently, the authorities have claimed that the festival won’t happen this year, but the dog meat traders will continue to stage the event with or without official endorsement.
This slaughter ‘festival’ is barbaric and must end NOW!
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PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE 
This is pure evil! Stop that NOW!
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Is it possible to sue the government of China for the mental trauma this is causing everyone ?
Can we sue them and use the money to save dogs and cats.
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Please stop this horrific, cruel and meaningless torture. People who do these things to animals are capable of doing even worse things to people. They have no soul.
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Sick Sick Murders 😦 We must stop this NOW!!!!
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I don’t get why people eat any animals. Some say it’s nothing else but eating pigs or cows. But I say, when I can give a simple sign and help any, any animal with it, I will do it. Do it, too.
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This isn’t even about the eating of animals … It’s about the horrific torture of animals
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How horrible…The Lord will take care of you barbaric people…you will feel every bit of pain you conflicted on these animals. You sick sick people.
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I’m ashamed of being these people ‘s compatriot!
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Horrible, heartless, cruel, sick, sadistic people!! This has to stop NOW!!
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This is just an example of disgusting barbarism, and total disrespect for dogs and the wonderful loyalty they show towards us. It must stop NOW !!
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Humanity gone wild….hoe can torture be tasteful?
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Stop this evil barbaric torture!
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What inhumane sick people do this…WHY NOT DO IT TO YOURSELVES AND EAT EACH OTHER!!!! That MUST BE YOUR NEXT MOVE YOU SICK EVIL SCUM
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Wow who would have thought China was such a backward nation.
Nothing short of a disgrace you are nothing short of vile human beings.
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I and many others have boycott China and Asia due to these barbaric festivals. I will NOT send my hard earned money to enrich nations that allow this EVIL to go on. CHINA AND ASIA MUST BE BOYCOTT, ENRICH OUR OWN NATIONS BY BUILDING OUR OWN PRODUCTS UNTIL THIS BARBARISM ENDS!
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Save the poor defensless animals, they should eat each other instead!!
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Please stop :((
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Plz stop, dogs are pets not meat
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No animal should be treated like this. Absolutely despicable behaviour from vile individuals.
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Only people can make this hell..
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THIS HAS TO STOP!!!!!!!!
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China clearly needs to educate these people
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All creatures deserve to live a life of freedom and abundance free slavery of use or abuse. This includes ALL animals regardless of their species or shape or size. When a person starts to differentiate based upon species of a person it is there the cruelty stems from as their entire belief system starts to build around that fundamentally false and pretentious assumption that any body is less or more due to its species or condition.
Simply said we all as human animals have got a moral obligation to use our intellect to stop discriminating based upon species like we did based upon race recently and gender, caste, or creed earlier.
Abolish speciesism, abolish false beliefs based dairy and meat industry, abolish all the cruelty and hippocricy towards one and all. The world would turn around and become a much nicer place to live in.
May peace love be to all.
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Please please stop this! This is not normal!!!!!😡😡😡
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Die chinesische Regierung muss diese Barbarei sofort stoppen. Pfui
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Please stop this vile cruelty.
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Absolutely vile.
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Fucking humans, they need to stop eating our best friends. If they are hungry eat your own people. There are so many of you!!! Stop this NOW!!!!!
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This is not a festival. This is hell!!!
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This is cruelty at its worst. How you can accept this is unbelievebal. Stop this nok and show the world that you actually are a great country
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STOP this disgusting cruel barbaric festival! You are disgusting people to take part in this horrific torture and mass killing! I hope someone does the same to you 10 fold, you bunch of b#stards!
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Please stop this, show respect en you will vet respect! Be human and stop this cruelty, because the world is watching you!
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