ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO SHUT DOWN 'DOG MEAT FESTIVAL' IN CHINA

Animal rights activists hope to shut down a ‘dog meat festival’ where caged animals - some of them stolen pets - are clubbed to death.

An estimated 10 to 20 million dogs are killed for meat each year in China - but the Yulin festival has come to symbolise the cruelty of China’s dog meat habit.



Yu Hongmei, director of the VShine Animal Protection Association, said , ‘China needs to progress with the times. Preventing cruelty to animals is the sign of a mature, civilized society.’

As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets still wearing their collars, are slaughtered for the festival held deep inside the poor, largely rural Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Some are trucked in hundreds of miles stuffed six or seven to a crate or small metal cage without food or water.

Slaughtering takes place in front of the animals, usually with a club to induce the pain and fear that restaurant owners claim makes their adrenaline-rich meat tastier.

‘Psychologically and mentally, they have already died many times,’ said Peter J. Li, Humane Society International’s China policy specialist.

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