End Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival (warning: graphic content)

[napkinz]

author: Elisa Caracciolo
target: President of China - Xi Jinping
signatures: 105,799

Killing innocent dogs to eat them -- and torturing them only so they have more flavor -- needs to stop!!!

We at "RAISE UR PAW" are asking for you to raise the voices and paws of the world to help ban the YULIN DOG MEAT EATING FESTIVAL, which is going to occur on June 21, 2015. Countless canine lives will be sacrificed in order to fulfill a barbaric tradition that has been permitted to occur for many years - and it is now time this horror is finally put to an end.

This hellish "Festival" involves what some call savouring the "delights" of dog meat hotpot, lynchees, and strong liquor. This will increase the abduction of strays and pets and also increase the torturous & inhumane prisons of dog meat farms -- places where man's best friends are raised for such purposes. Thousands of dogs will suffer, be butchered, beaten to death, skinned alive, and eaten. Time is ticking and the massive killing of dogs will soon take place, so we must get our voices united and raised not just to save the lives but save the hope in humanity - to be part of a compassionate world where we all come together to stand up and speak out for all innocent life, not just the life of humanity.

If we turn away and ignore the cries/pleas of these babies, then we truly have turned away from being human"kind". RAISE UR PAW TODAY AND TAKE ACTION! #takeaction #stopyulin2015 #yulin #china #dog #dogs #dogmeattrade #catmeat #dogmeat #cancelyulindogmeatfestival #STOPYULINFEST"

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/441/776/138/?cid=fb_LG_AdsEndYulinDogFestival&z00m=22739402

[napkinz]

1. kick

nt

[smirkymonkey]

2. Noooooo!

Dogs are the greatest creatures on the planet. This must be stopped!

[99Forever]

3. K&R & Signed.

[napkinz]

11. thanks 99Forever

[Arugula Latte]

4. We should also end hotdog/rib eating contests, given the way pigs are treated in factory farms.

[napkinz]

5. we should end the CRUEL CONDITIONS & PRACTICES of factory farming

like battery cages and pig crates

[Arugula Latte]

6. Totally agree.

There is a huge disconnect with the people who are appalled by dog eating and then go on to fry up factory-farmed pig meat.

[napkinz]

8. "There is a huge disconnect" ... yes, I agree

nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Why exactly...

should Chinese people pay any attention whatever to a petition from Americans asking them to stop eating dog meat? Would Americans pay any attention to a petition from Hindus asking them to not eat beef? The cultural arrogance implicit in the request is kind of shocking, honestly. Unless you happen to not eat meat at all, you have no moral standing to claim that eating dog or horse meat is somehow worse than eating beef or pork.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. Yeah. n/t

[napkinz]

10. can't people eat meat without inflicting such CRUELTY & SUFFERING?

is that too much to ask?

can't we stop the CRUEL & UNNECESSARY practices, methods?

whether it's how the dogs are cruelly treated in China or pigs in America?

[dembotoz]

12. if india protested our consumption of cows, would we stop eating beef

just to be clear
i love dogs
i love cats
and i had a hamburger for lunch

cultural differences are cultural differences

[napkinz]

15. can we do away with the unnecessary suffering inflicted on these animals?

whether it's in India, China, or America?

is that too much to ask?

[Nye Bevan]

13. What about all the pigs that die for the Coney Island hot dog eating contest? (nt)

[napkinz]

14. as I said in two other replies ...

We should end the CRUEL CONDITIONS & PRACTICES of factory farming like battery cages and pig crates.

Can't people eat meat without inflicting such CRUELTY & SUFFERING? Can't we stop the CRUEL & UNNECESSARY practices, methods?

Is that too much to ask?

(whether it's how the dogs are cruelly treated in China or pigs in America?)

[melman]

23. Let's not ever change things that are bad because there are also other bad things

Good thinkin'.

[napkinz]

25. hey melman

There's a story Ted Kennedy sometimes tells. It's about a boy who sees an old man tossing starfish stranded by a receding tide back into the sea. "There are so many," asks the boy, "what difference can your efforts possibly make?" The old man studies the starfish in his hand and tosses it to safety, saying: "It makes a difference to that one." For nearly half a century, Ted Kennedy has been walking that beach, making a difference for that soldier fighting for freedom, that refugee looking for a way home, that senior searching for dignity, that worker striving for opportunity, that student aspiring to college, that family reaching for the American Dream. The life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy has made a difference for us all.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-Medal-of-Freedom-ceremony

[Puglover]

16. I can't wait until China sends

a petition to President Obama to stop the pork rib cook off in Nashville this year.

Yeah, that will get a lot of traction.

And yes, I hate this. But it isn't our culture. How arrogant.

[napkinz]

17. compassion for other creatures, asking to end cruel and unnecessary methods

whether it's how pigs, chickens, and cows are treated in America or dogs in China or dolphins in Japan

how arrogant? really?

how utterly inhumane not to push that such cruelty be ended, whatever culture, whatever country!

[aikoaiko]

18. Do you have more info on how the dogs suffer?

[napkinz]

19. what I provided in the one paragraph is graphic enough .. I don't have the stomach to go any further

I'm sure if you Googled the subject you would find more information (including videos). But be prepared for even more disturbing details.

[alphafemale]

20. You eat animals I like! STOP THAT! Poutrage!

I just want to eat the animals you like!

Seriously?

[napkinz]

21. they shouldn't have to suffer needlessly

you can eat animals without having them first tortured

yes seriously

[alphafemale]

22. Signatures on a petition no one with power or will to change it will ever see?

Puff your chest up with that all you want.

Worthless as hell.

Move to India instead.

Become a missionary.

You might convince 3 or 2 people or maybe nobody in the remaining decades of your life to not eat dog.

Still NEXT TO worthless as hell.

But it would be a better effort than distributing a petition.

[napkinz]

24. this thread is also about awareness

"Puff your chest up with that all you want"

wow ... just sad