The annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival, a 10-day event ‘celebrating’ the summer solstice, is regrettably underway again in southwestern China. Every year, thousands of dogs are slaughtered, blowtorched, and sometimes boiled alive at the festival, which began in 2009 as a way for dog meat sellers to boost sales.
Typically, thousands of visitors join in on the ‘festivities,’ picking out their next meal from a selection of live dogs, who wait to be butchered in crammed, dirty cages. These dogs are typically stolen from their loving families or grabbed from the streets, often shipped to their deaths with their collars still on.
This year’s event is happening under a subdued atmosphere compared to past festivals, offering cautious hope that this could be the last Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Crowds are noticeably smaller than usual, and vendors are no longer killing dogs openly in the streets.
The new environment comes in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, which sparked widespread fears about the dangers of live animal markets, and recent legislative updates in response to the COVID-19 crisis, including China’s newly-imposed ban on the wildlife trade and the reclassification of dogs as companion animals rather than livestock.
To truly end the gruesome Yulin Dog Meat Festival, more progress is crucial. The slaughter of innocent dogs, who are brutally clubbed over the head and sliced open with knives, will continue without an explicit — and enforced — government ban.
Sadly, even with dogs removed from the official livestock list, there is still no explicit ban against eating dog or cat meat in China. We must keep up the effort to end this horrifying event. If you haven’t yet, sign Lady Freethinker’s petition urging China to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival from ever happening again and to end the country’s horrific dog and cat meat trade once and for all.
Stop this horror now you heartless barbarians!
It sickens me that people find this okay. This NEEDS to end!
This nation, CHINA, truly is the most gut-wrenchingly depraved, sadistic, barbaric nation on this planet when it comes to abusing, torturing and horrifically killing ALL animals. These masses are totally without compassion, empathy, integrity, decency and have NO MORAL ETHICS WHATSOEVER. They created the deadly Coronavirus pandemic that the rest of the world is now suffering from, its time the the CHINESE government and vile, masses were held accountable for their disgusting and sickening treatment of innocent, defenseless animals, especially DOGS AND CATS.
I couldn’t agree more but I have voiced my opinions twice before on social media and have been blocked !
They are a vile disgusting animal hating race that serve no purpose on this earth. They have brought about this pandemic because of the wet markets. The rest of the world should hold them accountable for what they have done and any other countries that have these horrendous markets.
I hope you all get the Corona Virus or whatever plague will be the result of killing and eating those animals!
I hope you all get the Corona Virus or whatever plague will be the result of killing and eating those animals!
Mercy for the animals… Stop these cruelty…
What a disgusting and disgraceful thing to do to our beautiful animals
Stop using and abusing animals to enrich yourselves. This was NOT what God said we must do to animals. WE MUST TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM OR PAY THE PRICE….. HELL.
I’m vegan and I have to say with certainty that this gruesome event is the worst of the worst. Of all the videos of animal cruelty I have seen China is the best torturers of all. It is not just dogs and cats but all animals they can get there scummy hands on. They are guilty of animal extinction and the slaughtering of animal abroad for their imbecilic so called traditional medicine. But one thing is certain, the whole world now knows of their grotesque ways, who is going to visit a country fill with disease and corrupt, greedy, mentally challenged idiots?
Stop the inhumane event
Boycott China!
2020 Make this year the final year.
NO AL FESTIVAL YULIN SALVAJE, NO AL CONSUMO CARNE DE PERRO, esa “cultura” cruel y salvaje de los PSICÓPATAS debería estar prohibida a nivel mundial no solo porque es un atentado a la salud mundial por los virus como ocurrió ultimamente, sino también por la salvajada de que ésta gente salve a los indefensos perros LOS COCINAN VIVOS, después de torturarlos, matlratados LOS COCINAN VIVOS, QUEMANDOLO VIVOS, HIRBIENDOLOS VIVOS EN AGUA CALIENTE, ningún animal merece ser cocinado vivo como lo hacen salvajemente ésta gente. Además, la carne de perro no es saludable, ya que los perros pobres tienen enfermedades, virus, rabias incluso comen caca y luego la gente cochina así se lo comen, Los perros no son para comer, los perros son mascotas, la carne de perro NO se debe comer según la Biblia, y la palabra de Dios está por encima de cualquier tradición salvaje y sucia de comer perros
HONTE A CES MONSTRES !!!!!!!!!!!!
ILS N’ONT ENCORE RIEN COMPRIS !!!!!
QUE LE CORONAVIRUS REVIENNE ET LES DÉTRUISE TOUS, CES MONSTRES !!!!!!!
QUE CETTE CRUAUTÉ DIABOLIQUE ARRÊTE IMMÉDIATEMENT !!!!!!!!!
Making progress. I pray that the more we do the more likely we can stop this sickening trade and confine it to history forever, and build a better future for animals everywhere.
Unkind, evil sub culture, it is very sad to be born as an animal in those places. No mercy for any animal. What a pathetic culture.
China is responsible for SPREADING COVID in the world from these wet markets. Shame on them. Shut them down. Shit on China forever.
This is so heart breaking. Why doesn’t the government stop this cruelty? I know this is what they are accustomed to. They just don’t have a heart of love. They don’t seem to care what kind of pain the dog or cat goes through.
We can hope covid 19 makes a heavy appearance there..and stay forver
Totally agree with you . Covid came from the wet markets in China. Hope it stays there. KARMA.
Pense la même chose!!!
I hate the “meat festival” it needs to end, this had to be the last time.
Eating dogs and cats has NOTHING to do with Earth’s summer solstice! The Yulin Dog Meat Festival is just a recent event planned by subhumans in China, the backward country that gave the world China Virus #4, the coronavirus. They really need to enact a Solient Green Festival, which would solve a lot of the human problems that country has given the world.
Noone should hurt like this stop the evil pain naw
The Yulin Festival is no Festival it is a horrific show of ancient practice it give China a disturbing and sadistic reputation. It needs to STOP immediately Dogs do have feelings they are mans best friend. This is a disgusting practice and must be stopped at all levels. Beating a dog to death does not enhance any persons benefit in any way by consumers. It’s just a horrific rediculous practice STOP this now China
stop a ces cruauté d un autre age
Bastard disgusting bastards
How can you boil animals who love us, alive, they are like children, they suffer the same of us
Bastards criminals
Fuck you julin of shit!!!
Humans make Greedy Soul-less choices for animals and for what? Gorge on their flesh as if its the only thing to eat? Falsely thinking to gain MALE ‘potency’? To celebrate wearing their skin and fur and feathers? Unless you have character and strength, and can change, or until we have humane leaders that show true example of respect to all life, we are done.
Kung Flu II
Its too much to hope that these ignorant savages change their ways. China is 100% responsible for COVID-19 and unleashing this plague on all humanity. China needs to be held to account by the civilized world for their crimes not only against animals, but also humanity.
They have no respect for life
MONSTERS
Get rid of all humans from this planet!!!
These fools will never learn. They have floods, that horrible killer virus, closed markets, lockdowns, etc so when do these Neanderthals have the time to murder/consume dogs? I hope their karma will be greater than what they are enduring now.
Any cruelty to any animal is inhumane and should be illegal with harsh and hard punishment. Monetarily and prison term wise. Cats and dogs are not people meat.. Never should be. And the cruelty of stealing pets that have homes is dispicable. Humans are dispicable that do this. Stop the insanity of this cruel and barbaric practice if not only eating cats and dogs but Habib a festival for it. Very sick thing to do
Thus festivsl.must end permanently.
WHY?
Stop the yearly barbaric Yulin horror show now!!!
Stop the yearly barbaric Yulin horror show now!!!
Please please Stop this insane practice and killing living beings! It’s crazy and barbaric!
I thought China had stopped this mass cruel slaughter of these poor animals. They are a nation of liars. They said they were stopping the wet markets too but they havn’t.
The wet markets are what caused covid and yet they are opening them up again. .madness – sheer madness. They should be ashamed of themselves. They start this pandemic and we ALL have to suffer. But I understand that they have these markets in other countries too. How and why would anyone want to be so cruel to animals. . .
This stupid and sadistic “Festival” needs to be shut down and stopped forever, please sign petition and send to all animal lovers.
When will this barbaric country finally put an end to this horrific torture. Absolutely abhorrent!
Sickening !!!!!
Sickening
The Yukon Dog Meat Festival is sick and twisted. My God, who are these people? They look deranged and possessed by the devil.
This is abolutely barbaric. Dogs and cats are pets, not meat.
Please do not send these horrific graphic photos.
These people are sick freaks and they should be arrested for this!!!!!
What often Chinese, Korean, and all other Asian “people” say is ‘Why are you criticizing us, you do the same to animals.’
And they are right; did you visited a slaughterhouse in your country? Do you know what industrial farming, also called factory farming, means? Billions upon the billions of animals are heinously tortured and brutally murdered everywhere on this sad planet. “People” eat more than million animals every single hour, causing unconscionable pain and suffering to innocent animals, and increasingly irreversible damage to our planet, and to their own – human health…not even that will stop evil humans to murder innocent animals, on the contrary, they mercilessly torture and kill more animals in an sick attempt to “heal” themselves.
Please do not be one of those bestial, heartless sub-humans, adopt plant-based (vegan) diet, save this planet for your children, spare billions of animals unconscionable pain and suffering.
Thank you for your compassion.
Reply to Christna Uhlir yes there is slaughtring in all countries but most are livestock not family pets such as dogs and cats chinese believe that medicine from cats heals them as dogs make men more vital in sex abuse is on the rise with all animals parents need teach there children about being kind to all animals not abuse them china as many Asian countries are communist and there govt runs all and the people are afraid but one thing from china killing animals for meat most are poor need money but these animals suffer in pain all alone and they need to realize that unsanitary conditions from were they slaughter these animals cause health risks as many animals who are slaughtered have diseases which people eat but most of all most other countries don’t spread virues within the last 6 virus all came from China even years beyond that China always spread diseases from animals but they kill innocent animals for more then meat dogs and cats are also used for fur hand bags gloves and other clothing but there tortured so barbaric and they kill with no feelings what so ever now they started another disease only to become a pandemic which won’t go away for years to come and its infected all countries not just China alone this is serious but they keep trading selling slaugtering and eating animals so yes were all idiots but think about who suffers the most it needs to stop laws need to be tougher and messages be sent to all i have lost respect for the Asian community shame on you as a country wake up and stop blaming others for your mess but better yourself as a country people of the world know what you do don’t shame yourselves any farther be kind to all aniimals they are God’s creatures and not for you to kill them for profits or beliefs eake up all you asians and stop shaming yourselves the world has had enough of this now
This abhorrent torture of tbese innocent creatures MUST end ! This is just plain savagery!!! How any human can allow this is beyond any understanding!!
THIS IS SO EVIL, SO WRONG, SO HIDEOUS, SO INHUMANE AND SO WICKED!!!! STOP THIS MURDEROUS ACT!!! THIS IS JUST DISGUSTING!!! ARE THESE PEOPLE JUST PLAIN IGNORANT AND MEAN??? I HAVE SIGNED PETITION AFTER PETITION TO END THIS CRIME!!! CHINA— WHEN WILL YOU LISTEN??? I HAVE LOST TOTAL RESPECT FOR YOU!!!
What dreadful indictment on the Chinese Communist Party.
Regulations are changed and yet dog slaughterers ignore this and continue in business.
CHINA IS OUT OF CONTROL.
First Hong Kong now mainland China is tallied President Xi to f**k off!
Oh dear!
For about 10 years, I yearly sign multiple petitions to stop this ugly and disgusting massacre. What’s so funny about eating dog and cat meat?? I really don’t understand. Dogs and cats are our companions, loving, caring, trustworthy and a whole lot more. We should treat them with respect. Not kill them in an utterly disgusting way.
when will this stop..