Chinese dog-eating festival outrages foreigners

[Draz]

Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-32965554


Outrage on social media over an annual dog-eating festival in China has been growing every year - and this year it's trended across the world. Will the anger eventually end the practice of eating dog meat in China?
Each year during summer solstice, it's thought that 10,000 dogs are cooked and eaten in Yulin, in Guangxi province in southern China, as part of the city's yearly dog meat festival. Although it's not illegal to eat dog meat in China, opinion is divided on how deep the "tradition" really runs. On Chinese social media in recent years, the Yulin Festival has become a focus for the large numbers of animal lovers - mostly within China - who are against it.
But this year, the reaction has gone global. Since May, almost a quarter of a million tweets have been posted using the hashtag #StopYulin2015, with most of the activity coming from the UK, the US and Australia. One of the loudest voices has been the US animal welfare group Duo Duo, whose change.org petition calling for the cancellation of the event has received more than 200,000 signatures. The group's campaign video on YouTube has been viewed more than 130,000 times.

Guess the Chinese really like hotdogs

[Type 2]

I don't think I could participate. They are so cute.

[Eric Cartman]

Japanese people don't have souls. Neither do the Chinese.

[Nick Young]

China gonna China.

[DetroitPistonFan]

Does Switzerland and Nigeria have dog-eating festivals too?

[Akrazotile]

Might be visiting China next year.

Any word on which breeds are the tastiest?

[Jameerthefear]

Might be visiting China next year.

Any word on which breeds are the tastiest?
I hear your mom is pretty popular

[Draz]

Them mfrs eat cats too with dog lowmein

[Akrazotile]

I hear your mom is pretty popular



Nah uh, you did not hear that.

[rezznor]

Japanese people don't have souls. Neither do the Chinese.


guess you missed this part


On Chinese social media in recent years, the Yulin Festival has become a focus for the large numbers of animal lovers - mostly within China - who are against it.

[Levity]

why are people hating on chinese dogs getting some food? racist mo fos....

[BurningHammer]

Is dog meat toxic? If not, who cares.

[DCL]

do they eat the head and butt section too?

how do they cook the dogs? like steak? medium-rare?

[~primetime~]

Is dog meat toxic? If not, who cares.
Domestic dogs/cats were not bred or farmed to be eaten. They were bred for other various reasons - tracking, killing rodents, herding cattle, etc etc but also bred to be our companions and for love.


I suppose I could see eating wolf/coyote as acceptable...wild game. But labs, poodles, etc? no

[gts]

Domestic dogs/cats were not bred or farmed to be eaten. In China they are

[KingBeasley08]

I wouldn't ever eat a dog but who cares what the Chinese do? It's there country, let em do them

[~primetime~]

In China they are
they maybe be farmed there (although those pics just look like domestic dogs in cages) but those breeds were not designed to be eaten...they weren't bred for that, no dog breed is that I am aware of.

[DCL]

http://www.lynnehayes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eating-dog-in-China.jpg

[Draz]

Get me a pug sandwich hold the mayo, cheese, lettuce and tomatos

[Patrick Chewing]

Time to nuke China.



Dogs are man's best friend.

[ballup]

they maybe be farmed there (although those pics just look like domestic dogs in cages) but those breeds were not designed to be eaten...they weren't bred for that, no dog breed is that I am aware of.
If it can move, it can be eaten.

[DonD13]

Does Switzerland and Nigeria have dog-eating festivals too?

:biggums:

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Chinas one of the biggest shtholes on the planet. Dont they eat fetuses too? Those cheenks eat everythin:lol :lol

[GatorKid117]

Meh, not surprised.

Chinese literally eat everything. On one hand I applaud them for not letting most of what they kill go to waste but on the other hand, I can only try eating fish heads at school so many times...

[StephHamann]

I would rather eat a chinese guy than a dog.

[iamgine]

Yum yum.

http://www.sn.xinhuanet.com/2013-06/26/116298403_11n.jpg

[Dresta]

why are people hating on chinese dogs getting some food? racist mo fos....
Not racist really, but it is definitely rather bigoted. We only have such a soft view of dogs because 1. We don't deal with the diseases they spread in lots of other places (rabies in India, and so on). 2. We've bred Dogs to be basically domesticated pets of affection, something to make us feel better. Well, eating them makes the Chinese feel better. People need to stop being such hypocrites and deal with it.

[senelcoolidge]

Just a different culture. Get over it. Some people like to sleep and kiss their dogs, I find that offensive.

[iamgine]

http://nigeriacamera.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Five-confirmed-dead-after-eating-dog-meat-in-Rivers.png

[Draz]

I'm actually surprised by the responses I'm getting here. I remember a few years ago someone mentioned they'd rather a person die over a dog. Or save a dogs life instead of a person. Some shit like that.

[eriX]

Just a different culture. Get over it. Some people like to sleep and kiss their dogs, I find that offensive.

I have also heard that some people like to do it doggie style. Literally.

[Draz]

Dam was eating McDonald's just now and seen those pics. Lost my appetite. The dogs look happy though.

[9erempiree]

While I don't believe in eating dogs but how can you guys trash the Chinese. It is no different than eating a cow, pig or chicken.

Can someone please explain to me why this is disgusting?

[Draz]

While I don't believe in eating dogs but how can you guys trash the Chinese. It is no different than eating a cow, pig or chicken.

Can someone please explain to me why this is disgusting?
It's because we're trained to think of them as pets. Just like cats. People eat snake, turtle, shark, squid, octopus, etc and we aren't scorned by it. We're just trained as a society to think of it as being wrong. I mean.. You abuse your animal (dog or cat) here in America you can get hit with major fines and criminal records. You can also lose your ability to ever own one again.

[Draz]

I don't even think it's because they live in poverty. I'm not experienced in economics to understand their economic situation but side by side other countries suggest their ways of culturally diverse eating is insane.

Do Africans eat cats or dogs? Third world countries don't even do that shit. They just love the exotic ability to eat whatever the fck moves.

[HitandRun Reggie]

As long as the animals aren't tortured like those racoon dogs they skin alive, I don't have a problem with this as long as most of the edible parts are consumed. :confusedshrug:

[Draz]

As long as the animals aren't tortured like those racoon dogs they skin alive, I don't have a problem with this as long as most of the edible parts are consumed. :confusedshrug:
Oh fvk dude. I remember those. Worst video I've ever seen. It was like 6-10 years ago I seen them skinning them alive and leaving them in cages. Shit was brutal..

[eriX]

I don't even think it's because they live in poverty. I'm not experienced in economics to understand their economic situation but side by side other countries suggest their ways of culturally diverse eating is insane.

Do Africans eat cats or dogs? Third world countries don't even do that shit. They just love the exotic ability to eat whatever the fck moves.

its more about eating whatever to survive. The difference between China and Africa is that China is right next to USA as the worlds dominant power. Part of the reason is because people there does whatever it takes to survive and to escape out of poverty even if it means stepping on other people or eating random shit.

[LJJ]

Meh, as far as I know eating dogs isn't really part of Chinese eating habits. You can't walk into the local 7-11 in Shanghai and find yourself a nice dogmeat sandwich. You can't visit the shady, questionable meat food cart in Beijing and buy a dog-hotdog either. This is some up in the mountains, rural, secluded from modern society type shit.

Incest isn't a feature of American culture just because there's a few villages in the backwoods of Kentucky where everyone is related. This is similar.

[DetroitPistonFan]

:biggums:
Swiss and Nigerians are known to eat dogs too.

[Draz]

You guys think it taste like chicken or steak? Something tells me chicken..

[DonD13]

Swiss and Nigerians are known to eat dogs too.

:oldlol:

[Dresta]

The pictures are quite disgusting because the dogs are still in their whole shape and figure.

When we get our meat at the grocery store, it's already been processed, chopped up....it look like...MEAT. Meat we can easily eat. The pictures of those dogs still look like dogs but dead dogs. So it's sad and terrifying looking at it. I feel disgusted by it too.

The Chinese...like most other Asian cultures....they are willing to do things openly and have no shame about. Western cultures, not so much.

If we see the whole process of how our meat goes from the farm to the livestock to the grocery, we might feel differently about the next time we eat meat. Depends on how it's done. Obviously, still be sad as seeing cows, lambs getting chopped compared to dogs cuz we domesticate dogs, not cows and lambs.

The Chinese method just looks barbaric and inhumane. Like I said, they're very open about it. Not doing it behind close doors.

I do wish they didn't do that.
Ah, so it's ok, and you'll eat it, as long as you never have to see it.

Grow a pair, geez.

[SexSymbol]

Hunting any animal should be banned and eating animals not bred for eating should be banned and fined a death sentence if violated.
Dogs are too smart to be eaten, let's be honest.

[dude77]

Hunting any animal should be banned and eating animals not bred for eating should be banned and fined a death sentence if violated.
Dogs are too smart to be eaten, let's be honest.

pigs are some of the smartest animals on the planet

[SexSymbol]

pigs are some of the smartest animals on the planet
But they are bread for food in many farms. Dogs are not

[dude77]

But they are bread for food in many farms. Dogs are not


you just said 'dogs are too smart to be eaten' .. you also stated the death penalty should be considered .. that leads me to believe that you care a lot about dogs because they're humanized to you ..

well pigs are just as smart or smarter than dogs .. they're very aware and sentient animals .. their awareness and sentient nature doesn't change because they're 'bred to be eaten' .. so why would you be ok with them being eaten and not dogs ?

humans are at the top of the food chain .. they're going to eat other animals if they're around .. it's just how it goes

[NumberSix]

you just said 'dogs are too smart to be eaten' .. you also stated the death penalty should be considered .. that leads me to believe that you care a lot about dogs because they're humanized to you ..

well pigs are just as smart or smarter than dogs .. they're very aware and sentient animals .. their awareness and sentient nature doesn't change because they're 'bred to be eaten' .. so why would you be ok with them being eaten and not dogs ?

humans are at the top of the food chain .. they're going to eat other animals if they're around .. it's just how it goes
Right, but outside of a small handful of weirdo trophy hunters, have you ever heard of people eating wolves?

When a lion kills a zebra, it eats it. When it kills a hyena or a leopard, it doesn't eat it. Why?

It's pretty clear in nature, that predators generally don't eat other predators. That's why humans will eat chickens, but not eagles or vultures. You might eat a rabbit, but not a cat. There's something in us that knows not to eat predators.

Why eat a cow and not a bear? Because bears eat meat. Raw meat. Cows eat grass. There isn't the same kind of risk of diseases or parasites jumping species to species when you eat vegetarian animals, especially in the case of mammals.

[HitandRun Reggie]

Right, but outside of a small handful of weirdo trophy hunters, have you ever heard of people eating wolves?

When a lion kills a zebra, it eats it. When it kills a hyena or a leopard, it doesn't eat it. Why?


I don't know about dogs and wolves, but hyenas and bears have been eaten by humans since the dawn of human civilization.

[~primetime~]

Pigs and cows were bred and designed to be eaten... That is their purpose

Domestic dog breeds were NOT designed to be eaten... The different breeds were created for other reasons.



Such a simple concept that has been understood since the creation of these creatures and for some reason it is hard for some to grasp.

[Hittin_Shots]

Pigs and cows were bred and designed to be eaten... That is their purpose

Domestic dog breeds were NOT designed to be eaten... The different breeds were created for other reasons.



Such a simple concept that has been understood since the creation of these creatures and for some reason it is hard for some to grasp.

Who designs them to be eaten? Humans deciding they can breed them for food is what... These are humans who do breed dogs for food.. they're not just walking down the street stealing ppls cats and dogs..

[DetroitPistonFan]

:oldlol:
It true. There's articles about them eating dogs. Swiss love to eat cats too.

[Done_And_Done]

Savages...

[~primetime~]

Who designs them to be eaten? Humans deciding they can breed them for food is what... These are humans who do breed dogs for food.. they're not just walking down the street stealing ppls cats and dogs..
So what dogs breeds are they eating that are in fact bred to be eaten?


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119223/photos-yulin-chinas-dog-meat-eating-festival-2014


Some dogs are strays while others are stolen pets, and breeds range from Dalmatians to Labradors to Tibetan Mastiffs

[BurningHammer]

Stray dogs are problematic in many places like many Asian cities and Moscow. Eating them is one of good ideas to control them.

[~primetime~]

Stray dogs are problematic in many places like many Asian cities and Moscow. Eating them is one of good ideas to control them.
It is a problem in the US as well...we euthanize over a million dogs every year

[ballup]

I bet those Hindus really respect us for eating cows.