Protestors file petition with 11m signatures against Chinese dog-meat festival

[MariaThinks]

Source: Times of India

BEIJING: Animal rights activists demanding end to the slaughter and eating of dogs at a Chinese festival today delivered a petition with 11 million signatures to authorities in Beijing.

The two dozen activists were accompanied by dogs and unveiled banners with pictures of the animals above the message "I'm not your dinner" as they presented the petition at the representative office of Yulin city, where the festival is held.

The annual festival, which is set to begin on June 21, sees residents of the southern city consume dog meat with thousands of dogs expected to be slaughtered.


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[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Good.

It's a start.

[msongs]

2. where's petition for chicken meat? fish meat? cow and pig meat? nt

[renate]

4. I agree

I'm a vegetarian (like you, I'm guessing?). And I feel the same way, very much so. I won't go into it further because, for some reason I can't understand, other people's vegetarianism upsets some (not most, of course) people who like to eat meat, and I'm just barely starting to get over the primaries and am looking forward to DU's becoming a friendlier place again.

But there's something about companion animals that makes eating them particularly repellent. We've bred them not only to be docile but to actually love us. There is no animal more loyal than a dog. (And some cats ) Betraying that trust is just too disgusting for words. It adds sociopathy to cruelty.

But again, I agree with you 100%.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. +1000

why do dogs get a pass over a cow or pig. Hell, pigs are more intelligent than dogs

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

10. This

I'll take this more seriously when I see Hindus protesting steak houses.

[Reter]

20. Thankfully, no where in sight

n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. My name is on that petition.

I'm glad to say.

[Crash2Parties]

11. Maybe I should sign it - someone hold my hamburger for me?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. I don't get it

People who think celebrations of cruelty are joke material or think it's funny to mock people who care about it.

Some people (not me) think trans mocking is funny, which I'd bet you would stand against, and want allies too.......some people only seem to get their caring up when it's their personal issue.

[Crash2Parties]

15. NOT mocking the cruelty, nor the protests of the same.

My point is that people are deciding that because it is dogs and not one of the animals we factory farm here, it's inherently different.

It's not.

I was mocking the people who say it's wrong to do that to dogs - while figuratively eating a hamburger, which statistically likely came from a factory farm. Some are focusing on that aspect (that it's dogs) rather than the cruelty, I fear simply because of cultural bias.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. Oh, I misunderstood.

Yes, I agree....the suffering we humans inflict on...everything. All I can do is the best I can, myself, and it's damn imperfect anyway.

Then there are the trundling masses, who don't bother to think past the latest bling...and I can't change that.

[Duppers]

17. Mine too!

Proud to have signed.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. Yay!!

[RealAmericanDem]

5. I won't eat dogs...

Now, no promises when it comes to cats though. So many good recipes, so little time.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. How about SPAM sculpted in the shape of a poodle?

[red dog 1]

7. K&R!

I feel sorry for all the animals in China..especially the angora rabbits who have their fur cruelly ripped off them every three months or so, even though there are other ways to "collect" the fur.

[NWCorona]

9. The meat markets in China are something to see.

Definitely not for the timid.

I hope the activists are successful.

[Jnclr89]

12. The Chinese are dispicalbe in the animal slave trade

but 11 million people are less than 1% of their total population. I love animals, but I'm trying to explain the problem there.

[Sunlei]

14. 11 million signatures!

[napkinz]

19. kick

they torture the dogs before they kill them ... absolutely barbaric!