As activists around the world protest the upcoming Yulin Dog Meat Festival, Chinese celebrities are joining the fight to denounce the cruel event, the South China Morning Post reported Thursday. The Post named five stars who are vocally opposing the approaching festival, including Sun Li, China’s “Queen of Television.”
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The actress, who began speaking out against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival several years ago, campaigns avidly against dog meat and fur.
Meanwhile, pop star and actor Chen Kun recently took to Chinese social media, calling for a discussion about canceling the annual massacre.
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Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous celebrities, is a dog and cat lover who campaigned against slaughtering dogs in an online video.
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Award-winning actress Zhao Liying, who frequently posts selfies with her beloved dog, Mao Qiu, joined other stars in denouncing the cruel festival.
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Singer and actress Yang Mi, who has over 100 million followers on Weibo, used her influential position to take a stand against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, writing “Dogs’ loyalty to people exceeds my imagination. I treat dogs as friends. I don’t eat dog meat.”
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The celebrities’ outcries reflect China’s growing sentiments against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival and the dog meat trade in general. Every year, thousands of canines are brutally slaughtered and eaten in the streets during this horrifying event, which marks the summer solstice.
The dogs, many of whom are stolen from loving families, are crammed into filthy, rusting cages and transported to Yulin, where they often arrive still wearing their tags and collars. They endure unimaginable suffering as they are bludgeoned to death and their throats sliced before being boiled or torched and served as food.
If you haven’t yet, sign Lady Freethinker’s petition to end the Yulin Dog Meat Festival and calling on China to impose a nationwide, strictly-enforced ban against the gruesome dog and cat meat trade.
SIGN: Stop The Yulin Dog Meat Festival and End China’s Horrific Dog and Cat Meat Trade
Thank you for speaking up & standing against the utterly cruel, inhumane murder of these loyal, loving faithful human companions of cats & dogs. Please educate the older generations to understand that these innocent animals also feel the pains & sufferings. These pooches are very intelligent and can give humans so much of happiness & can be loyal to their last day alive. Please make sure to STOP this barbaric massacre done on such intelligent sentient beings.
Someday the evil Covid China government may care about what their few enlightened citizens and the rest of the world thinks of it. May it occur sooner than later.
These people that are cruel must expect to be penalised to highest degree,
Wish it would stop, it is a nightmare for these poor animals.
Thank Goodness there are people there who know this “festival” is really a horror..
Never stop helping these cats and dogs.
And, please, let them show some cats in their pictures.
Even thought it’s called the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, cats are also slaughtered and served at this horrible place, too.
Please don’t forget them . They suffer as much as the dogs do.
A big Thank You to all the Chinese Celebrities for speaking out to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Thank You for all you helo. 💛
A big Thank You to all the Chinese Celebrities for speaking out to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Thank You for all you helo. 💛
A big Thank You to all the Chinese Celebrities for speaking out to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Thank You for all you helo. 💛
I can feel your compassion and it makes me smile. My heart is with you
about time i’m so sick of how Asians treat animals I lump all Asians together in the bad category so glad to see some love animals let’s see more of this
I’m so pleased to see the Chinese people standing up to this horrific meat business. You guys that love these angels like we do here in US just ROCK!
Thank God China’s celebrities are speaking out against this atrocity. I hope more people will not only listen to them but speak out against this barbaric festival themselves.
Thankful! Celebrities have a big impact, Chinese love their pop stars. I hope this helps the poor pups and cats when they see they are meant to be our companions not lunch,
Fighting for this
All of these are cruel humans who must lack any compassion or love for animals. This is so sad th t these animals suffer in such a way. My heart hurts so much for these animals.
The world is watching –killing INNOCENT animals that love us no matter what is not what a human being does!! Stop this barbaric “habit” and go raise your own food–get a job–stop making a living off of innocent animals that want to please us and nothing else —
It is certainly good news that prominent Chinese people are speaking out. Change can only come from within.
As we can see in these lovely pictures dogs are our best friends not lunch good for these stars for speaking out against this atrocity which is the Yulin so called festival.
it’s about fcking time they stepped up to the plate. i’ve only been signing petitions for 10 yrs and it’s still going on.
Wouldn’t that be amazing. Doesn’t seem like anything else has helped stop this disgusting act.
The only way some government authorities take notice is through economics. Please boycott Chinese goods.
It’s good to know that Chinese celebrities are speaking out against that atrocity. I don’t know if it will ever stop completely as the Chinese government is well known for their lies, corruption and indifference. but I suppose I have to have faith in the nation’s good will and in the heart of all decent, honest and intelligent Chinese.