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Tradition or Abuse? Chinese Views on the Yulin Dog Meat Festival
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Martha boltares
June 24, 2016 at 12:11 am
Red meat gives humans rectal cancer in the long run! I hope Karma gives these dog and cat eaters a lot! Torture before killing a being is evil! Do you do that to a fetus before you eat it? Do you beat up the mom to make it taste better? I’ll bet you don’t! You’re evil beings! May karma curse you!
Arun Dev
February 17, 2019 at 2:09 pm
if you eat red meat you will get cancer and high blood pressure and please stop this dog burning festival to make and torture the animals specially the dogs thank you.
Rosa Aguirre-Sweet
June 24, 2016 at 2:17 am
well that was disappointing as hell, but glad to know that we all agree on one thing, the brutality and cruelty that is used on these dogs, Id like to see them watch how these dogs are tortured, skinned and cooked alive, then tell me how great dog meat taste….
to mention Africa is ridicules, how does India live as vegetarians…they farm their food and grains, Africa also has access to many wild life animals for food, the wild boars are out of control all over the world, even the refugees eating the wild boars might help keep the population down and keep them out of the crops they destroy, deer population also out of control, have you ever watched “the great migration”? were talking so many wilde beast are killed, from trying to cross a couple croc infested rivers, OH WAIT, CROCS probably eat better then the africans and refugees, and crocs are edible, wilde beast are edible, anything deer related, antelope , elk, moose, and many others edible, birds are edible, and tell me again….WHY are people starving????
during extreme droughts, fish literally die from lack of water, I understand that it would be difficult to grow crops because lack of water, what it takes to raise live stock for meat, would be more useful to utilize the grains used to feed the live stock, these grains can last much longer on a shelf then meat would… I myself have turned towards vegetarian, I also grow, can, dehydrate many of my own vegatables…the US throws away and waste more food, then necessary. ..and then the Africans poach Elephants and Rhino, wild cats to near extinction, for the Chinese of course…and leave the remains to rot in the sun, or for other animals to eat…then turn around crying their starving.
Linda Ensing
June 24, 2016 at 11:06 am
This is no adition! This is animal cruelty!????
Linda Ensing
June 24, 2016 at 11:07 am
This is no tradition ! This is animal cruelty!????
Robyn Gale
June 24, 2016 at 2:12 pm
The Yulin Dog Festival should be banned, these people…if you want to call them that…. are barbaric they torture these animals skinning and boiling them alive, muzzling them and chopping their paws off, what do they say ” the more pain the animal is in the better the meat tastes” WELL SORRY THIS IS JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE. #StopYulinforever????????????????????????
RSB
June 24, 2016 at 4:30 pm
I don’t give a flying fuck if it is culturally insensitive. I am a mental health provider and I ALWAYS have to be culturally mindful. This is NOT about attacking one’s culture. I would say the same if other countries display this type of barbaric torture towards animals. And I am sick to death of people posting “what is the difference between dogs and cows?”, it is not the kind of animal that is being eaten. It is the philosophy of inflicting severe torture to animals to “tenderize the meat” and for “strength and fertility” purposes. This kind of torture and pain that is inflicted is pure evil and wrong and simply states that this “culture” lacks compassion. It is wrong and these people need to be educated. And lastly, the bulk of the dogs and cats consumed are stolen pets with collars. This also states that these people do not care about the morality of where their meat comes from and proceeds to slaughter stolen pets instead of letting them go to return to their owners. They can complain about their moods being spoiled but what about the pain that these innocent animals endure? Therefore, my final words.. Culturally insensitive, my ass, go choke on a bone!
Mary johnston
June 24, 2016 at 5:13 pm
THIS IS ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!! TAKE THESE BARBARIC PEOPLE SKIN THEM ALIVE THEN COOK THEM!!! THAT IS WHY I STOPPED EATING CHINESE FOOD I DONT WHAT I AM EATING AND I DONT BUY ANY TREATS FOR MY PETS MADE IN CHINA!!! What’s next they gonna start eating they’re own children?
lisa goudie
June 25, 2016 at 1:19 am
Would you slowly torture a person if it made them taste better? How can you think this way? You are evil and you use and abuse but give nothing back. You should never be near an animal. They are too good for you. You need to feel the pain that these animals feel. You are cowards!!!!!!!!
Cynthia
June 25, 2016 at 5:04 am
Yu Lin dog meat festivil is not merely personal choice or traditions, but it is an organized marketing behavior. The maority of dogs are napped and shipped to Yulin, most are pets or stay dogs. The whole procudure of the business covers criminal and illegal activities. To say this is merely traditions and personal behavior is actually escape the responsibility of bureaucracy. It is very desappointing the government made this annoucing. It is an insult the Chinese and the culture to let this inhumane “festivil” exsit and even justify for it.
susan shawket
June 25, 2016 at 8:23 pm
These poor dogs, cats, puppies and kittens are brutally tortured to death. They are companion animals and just want our love and attention. The Yulin dog and cat meat eating festival is absolutely horrific. The pain and suffering these animals endure is beyond our comprehension. The torturers are SAVAGES… they even eat dogs alive. Saying that, in Iraq the Kurds eat puppies alive and rip their poor little bodies apart. It sickens me that in this day and age, billions of animals, birds, insects, sealife and reptiles are tortured to death. ROT IN HELL the lot of you SADISTIC, EVIL savages.
Tania micallef
June 26, 2016 at 12:54 pm
They say that Yulin dog meat festival is a tradition.In ancient years people in the Colosseum (Rome -Italy)gladiators used to combat with wild and hungry animals.Nowadays this has stopped because people realised that this was inhumane.Torturing and killing an animal in this barbaric state is inhumane.We are human beings and we must have feelings.A man without feelings at all is a monster.We need more people like Marc Ching .He saved 1000 dogs from dog meat festival.He deserves a nobel price for doing such a thing.
Nicole
June 28, 2016 at 9:52 pm
The China government is clever. On one hand, they said they have not supported nor organized the festival. (to appease foreigners) Yet at the same time, they continue letting their citizens do whatever they want in regards to holding the festival. Even when tons of complaints about dogs being stolen from home, caught from the streets and even the vast amount of cruelty/torture were involved.
Even the current festival, Marc Ching reported that there were police officers wearing street clothes following him around.
Michele
June 29, 2016 at 4:49 am
I am very disappointed in the article re: Yulin Festival. There’s hardly any discussion regarding the cruelty involved in butchering the dogs (and cats..no one ever discusses the poor cats! ) alive. Next time around…or even all year long…let’s put a camera inside these houses of horror so all those about to sit down to a doggy feast can see how their dinner was made. The tragedy is that not enough Chinese are bothered by the cruelty: the torching, boiling, skinning and mutilating a living animal is tolerated in their archaic, pagan, society. Just send a couple of Viagra shipments to China! That may end their demand for tiger penises and thirst for tiger wine. Their abuse of bear for bile…and their need for rhino horn for ‘medicinal’ purposes. They must be the horniest men on the planet.
MF
July 2, 2016 at 8:47 am
It would be nice if people like Michele could oppose dog meat eating without slipping into racist comments and if people like Mary Johnston would read the article before commenting. Most people in China don’t eat dog meat or condone the festival. It doesn’t make any sense to boycott restaurants in your home country run by Chinese people who have no connection to the Yulin festival.
Eddie Wood
June 15, 2017 at 8:32 pm
The very act of the torturing dogs and cats angers people beyond reason, these people who do this are sub-species, why comment on someone showing a distaste towards the chinese weather it is racist or not that is nowhere near as important as the torturing of these beautiful animals!!!!!!!
If we all boycott chinese restaurants maybe then something will be done by their own people??? I see nothing wrong in doing that, what is wrong is the torturing of animals!!!!!!!!!
DingDongDoorknobs
June 25, 2019 at 12:05 am
What a stupid response. Maybe you should continue these nation-hating sentiments in other regions like Serbia & the Middle East. Maybe that way, you wouldn’t be a hypocrite.
Emma Hastings
November 25, 2018 at 10:28 pm
Basically there are no words I can think of to actually say apart from I am ashamed to be a human being and to share this world with such absolute vile disgusting horrible specimens as these idiots who think that it is ok to watch an animal die in such pain and hopefully one day they will die a horrific death let’s hope so
SL
August 2, 2016 at 12:33 pm
the torture before killing these dogs/cats really breaks my heart & make me tremble… Are these even humans?
sharon rowe
August 25, 2016 at 6:17 pm
You are right to say it is the torture of the animals which most offends people outside of China…and it is this savagery that makes many people look down on China for allowing this to continue in 2016. We have cruelty all around the world towards animals, but the extent and the nature of the cruetly involved in the dog meat trade is not defendable under the name of history, culture, diet, need.
Jones Schmit
August 31, 2016 at 12:56 pm
I am totally against this Festival. Because in the way they celebrating it’s out of humanity. Such festival should be banned. Many animal lovers and organisations like vanderpumpdogs.org are Uprising this festival. But I am still surprised how their government could not ban such inhumanity festivals there.
Zach
January 2, 2017 at 10:43 am
The dog meat torture is so extreme that most people do not ever watch it, because the videos do not get circulated. On a daily basis, i see new videos of dogs in China being boiled alive, thrashing about and screaming in agony, or dogs hanged and blow torched alive while they scream, or having their skin peeled off as they kick and scream, or have their paws chopped off and eaten while the dog is left alive to suffer. This is torture that you would find in Saw movies. To support the Yulin festival in any way makes you the scum of the Earth. The problem is NOT eating dog meat necessarily. It is TORTURING dogs. And harming peaceful protestors by dumping boiling water on them or kidnapping them. Reading this article, i expected the number of people against this to be in the 90th percentile. China is a disgusting place.
DaveQB
June 15, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Perfectly said Zach. I feel the article doesn’t address the main issue, rather just touching on it at the conclusion. I doubt the treat of these animals is endorsed by other cultures in the world, including Chinese culture. It seems like this is a rogue community that is carrying this out. It looks like the festival has illegal activities all over it, so that is something that the local government can use to crack down on this with. The fact it hasn’t is disappointing and raises a skeptical eye that there’s some corruption going on here. The human race has so many disappointing aspects.
Zach
January 2, 2017 at 10:53 am
People will call protestors “hypocrites” for eating beef and pork while being against dog meat in China. As a vegan myself, i get to say that’s a complete false equivalency. I cannot watch a family pet, writhing in agony and screaming desperately, as it is forced down in a pot of boiling water, and think that people who eat cows are just as bad. It is no contest. Where in civilized countries, we strive to kill animals quickly and somewhat “humanely”, China strives to inflict as much pain as possible. The only time they actually kill humanely is when they are in a hurry and don’t actually have time to torture the animal.
By the way, it has been proven that lots of leather in the US imported from China is dog leather, labeled as cow leather, and those dogs were boiled and skinned alive. Boiled, and then had their fur scraped off their tender bodies as they were fully conscious, crying out in pain. Any torture you can think of, they have done it already.
As i mentioned, these videos do not circulate, because to share them means losing most of your friends. I lost 75% of my facebook friends for sharing the Yulin Festival and asking others to spread the word. Everyone would rather look the other way, or even become angry at the messenger, rather than at China.
Adrian Shiva
February 28, 2017 at 4:22 pm
You are exactly correct. I myself am a vegan, yet I always see people attempting to excuse cruelty on the grounds that anyone who protests it is a “hypocrite” – but not only is it false equivalency to liken the torture-consumption of dogs and cats to the consumption of typical livestock animals, but an appeal to hypocrisy is known as a “to quoque” logical fallacy, which says that attempting to point to supposed ‘hypocrisy’ has nothing to do with the current topic but instead points to some other fault as if that excuses the current one.
You know what’s interesting? ‘Hypocrisy’ accusations pretty much never come up with any other cruelty. If we try to save a human life, we’re suddenly not ‘hypocrites’ if we don’t donate to starving children, or don’t adopt a child. We’re not ‘hypocrites’ if drug addicts try to tell youths to stay out of drugs. A suicidal man is not called a ‘hypocrite’ for trying to talk someone else out of jumping off a bridge. Or should he instead say “jump, you coward!” because apparently the worse crime according to these cruelty apologists is to be considered a hypocrite.
But when it comes to animal torture/consumption, it’s really interesting that so many people are bent on excusing it. After all, the apologists are not the ones being tortured or killed, and will look for ways to excuse sadism and gluttony that targets animals.
They are wrong to assume that they are logically or morally right to suggest that no one can condemn a cruelty if they are hypocrites, because that places an emphasis on character imperfection *and* in this case relies on false equivalency, rather than on a position or proposed argument.
Further, another reason many people go with hypocrisy disengagements is because, by suggesting that only vegans can speak out against animal cruelty in the proposal that ‘hypocrisy’ is the worse crime, they are attempting to morally excuse themselves from taking action if they are not vegan. Interestingly, at the same time many people are keen to mock vegans for advocating for animal well-being, yet when it comes to inviting advocacy from non-vegans, many would suddenly shift to the position that “only vegans can rightly advocate for animals, otherwise I would be a hypocrite”.
I’ve found myself having to speak up for non-vegans who want to help animals – but who are wrongly attacked by naysayers and cruelty apologists who’d rather sit around and do nothing but swirl the proverbial wineglass from where they sit comfortably as they portray the advocacy for the well-being of animals as merely ‘hypocrisy’ in their attempts to disarm people from taking compassionate action.
Adrian Shiva
February 28, 2017 at 5:41 pm
tu* quoque (unable to edit last comment)
DingDongDoorknobs
June 25, 2019 at 12:22 am
But it’s easy to call you a hypocrite, though. People like you are why a minority of those Chinese respondents hesitate before opposing the festival. You generalise an entire nation while ignoring the vast majority of people who oppose its cruelty but don’t really have the power to stop it. Your views are actually mirrored in a lot of English/Western journalism, that many Chinese tend to detest as ‘biased propaganda’. Well, no wonder…
Giolina Maksimovic
March 6, 2017 at 7:00 am
These people are sick what sort of heart do you people have ..i am sick to my stomach. .stop the torture of dogs..ban any every single dog from China. .
Melanie Arena
August 16, 2017 at 12:38 pm
WE domesticated dogs to be companions hundreds of years ago. Every single dog breed came from a wolf, we domesticated them and now these barbarians with severe mental illness, to thank them for their loyalty, boil them alive and skin them alive. This is not normal behavior, and it sickens me to the core. How can you watch a screaming animal die and go about your day in celebration, shame on you, I sincerely hope karma finds each and every one of you……….disgusting.
Steve
November 24, 2017 at 9:24 am
I am filled with such rage reading about what they do to dogs and cats that it’s been on my mind day in and day out. I can’t do a damn thing about it and it’s killing me inside! I live in an area where there are many Koreans Chinese and Japanese I have such hatred towards them now they may not be involved but just looking at them makes me sick to my stomach I swear one of them was to mess with me it will be the sorriest day that they could ever possibly have. These rotten sadistic evil bastards that do these things to these cats and dogs should have the same things done to them and die of slow agony and torture the government needs to get off their fucking ass and other countries need to get involved! I say boycott everything that’s connected to these countries .The world has to see that action is taking place And the world is watching. I rescue cats in my spare time I also volunteered for a few years at a rescue organization so my connection to these animals is extremely strong! I don’t even want to wear a piece of clothing from China or anything else that is made in the country or any country that tortures animals.
Tasneem Sayanvala
May 29, 2018 at 4:51 am
Sick on every level.
Every being deserves to be treated well.
Why torture???
Just sick.
Hollie Lintz
June 4, 2018 at 9:34 pm
This is complete barbaric torture and needs to stop. What makes these horrible people think this is right. We have to standup for all of the fur babies and save their lives. China is wrong how would they like it if they were tortured in this manner.
victoria
June 13, 2018 at 7:18 am
i read the article and one person from china who eat dogs said that they raise dogs and after sometime they eat because they are useless it that so horrible how can even u say these people have no feelings so cruel.. if this is the thing so that guy should cut abuse his parents and eat them aswell because human after getting old they get useless…i will pray god that you should be treated in same way the way u do to dogs torturing them and killing them for you insane festival
Christina DeGreef
January 26, 2019 at 9:43 am
What about pigs and cows? So dogs are more like humans than pigs. Pigs are smarter than dogs…
sharon Gracia
May 29, 2019 at 4:02 am
What ever the meat you eat. Is your own affair. The problem lies in the method of slaughter. If the animal is tortured or stressed adrenaline eats up the lactic acid in the meat. causing it to be tough, tasteless, and it will be pale in color and sometimes crumbly.Also it will spoil more quickly. Each year the pork industry loses $275 Million due to pre slaughter stress. No there is no great way to slaughter. But taking a blow torch and burning an animal alive… Or skinning an animal alive… Or breaking the legs of an animal and throwing them into a pot of boiling water… So torture is OK.. I come from Native American Ancestry. We say thank you to the animals we eat. We do not drag them screaming. beat them break bones set fire to their eyes.. So It is not meat it is method.