It Happened: Controversial Yulin Dog Eating Festival Held Early To Avoid Attention [UPDATED]

Posted: 06/19/2014 10:10 am

UPDATE 7:06pm June 22: The Yulin Summer Solstice Dog Eating Festival did in fact take place on June 21; please see here for our report.

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We’ve been duped. The infamous Yulin dog-eating festival wasn’t cancelled, it was just moved up. Traditionally held on the summer solstice in Yulin, the date was quietly changed to dodge media coverage and outrage by Chinese and international critics, reports The Guardian.

State media reported some Yulin residents gathering last weekend to eat lychee and dog meat in order to celebrate the summer solstice, even though the longest day of the year isn’t until June 21. They had reportedly done so in order to avoid attention for eating dog meat, a contentious issue raised by animal activists as well as average Chinese citizens who are pet owners.

Animal activists allege that the event is a public health risk because the dogs are not properly quarantined, but instead are stray dogs caught off the street.

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The local government has distanced itself from the festival, but passed on several directives to residents.

Yulin restaurants were ordered to remove the character for “dog” from signs and menus and to refrain from slaughtering dogs or display cooked dog meat in public places. Furthermore, an order that health care workers aren’t allowed to consume dog meat in public has been revealed to encapsulate all local public servants.

The eating of dogs is not illegal in China.

For something that happened last week, the Chinese media has not extensively covered the rescheduling of the Yulin festival. The campaign against the dog eating festival continues in China with posts like this one on Weibo that believe the event is still on for June 21.

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The master of none

Makes a nice change from eating pig or chicken every day i suppose.
- kine
  
  do NOT compare this “FESTIVAL” to ANYTHING .
  - The master of none
    
    You dont get the joke i see. Maybe to deep.
    - bevgannon
      
      It is not to be joked about.. Its not a joke. . where is yor compassion.
      - The master of none
        
        What i find funny is i have known foreigners regularly go to dog food restaurants.
  - bevgannon
    
    This so evil and insane,. down right cruelty. and nowt is bein gdone about it. I dont know what is wrong wiv their Government or Governments where animals are concerned. they are given no animal rights. Yet MAN gets all. am in dire disgust, sadness, heartbroken. Peopel make me sick and their evil thoughts, and ways.and who dont give a shite about a life. or a life. no compassion. May these people who are like this rott in Hell soon.
bevgannon

OMG this is terribly sick , sad and insane. Inhumane , barbaric people treating animals like shit
- Myla Cabatingan
  
  Absolutely true, people who kills dogs are uneducated , bastards,
  - bevgannon
    
    Agree with you so much . sick people, backward morons, cabbag for brains.
charlesliu

If this is the case, the whole idea of tradition gets thrown out the window. The festival is supposed to celebrate the summer solstice which only happens on June 21.

They’re not celebrating the solstice, they’re celebrating the act of eating dog meat.
- Myla Cabatingan
  
  They are extremely bad people because dogs are like humans who have intelligence and emotions.
  - bevgannon
    
    Agree big time
- bevgannon
  
  Its just an excuse to go wild and be like savages. They are sick people. they have got no Brains. They are barbaric. they need to be taught . We are in 21st Centtury and yet they are still acting like they have come from the Stone ages. and even then I bet Neantheral Man never dun this to animals.
Myla Cabatingan

Stop killing those helpless dogs. People who kill those innocent dogs are called murderes! Because dogs are the same to humans, they have have feelings! They are very good friend,
bevgannon

Its sad, heartbreaking this HAS GOT TO STOP
Daniel Pagan Murphy

I don’t see why it’s ok to eat chicken but not dog. You people are hypocrites and ate trying to impose your arbitrary standards on others
- kine
  
  that is the saddest comment i have read about this so far. you obvviously dont know anything about this trade. nothing ! I am so sick and tired of un-educated people comparing this festival in particular and the dog and cat meat trade in these countries to anything. educate yourself before commenting.
  
  these people think TORTURING the dog beore death will encrease the meat flavour. this is not a discussion about dog vs chicken. THIS IS A DISCUSSION ABOUT TORTURE. Do you get that ??
  
  this is a vile trade led by psychopaths ! go and google yulin and really take a good deep look and read before you compare this festival and the dog meat trade to anything ! YOU are a hypocrite , fealing the STRONG NEED to comment about something you dont know NOTHING about ! EDUCATE Y.O.U.R.SE.L.F . OR you do know about it, and you lack common sense , empathi and lots of other emotions .
  
  animals are boiled alive
  cats are boiled alive to make HEALT drinks..
  dogs and cats are roasted alive
  look at the picture above , if you dont feel anything wrong with that than i rest my case with you.
  animals are skinned ALIVE
  slaughtered SLOWLY ,
  tortured, fur plucked off , beaten , legs and limbs cracked and bended , ALIVE , PUT ON HUGE BARBEQUES MOTHER AND BABIES , ALIVE , ROASTED SLOWLY BROWNED UP…..
  
  BLOWTORCHED , PUT IN OVENS , ALIVE .
  This is a picture of a dog in boiling water, alive. fur is rubbed off
  - kine
    
    ..2
    - Daniel Pagan Murphy
      
      So just to clarify, you are not against the eating of dogs per se, just the cruel way they are treated beforehand, correct? Once again, I hope you have never eaten comercially farmed chicken because the conditions they are kept in are plenty inhumane, as are the way we get milk, eggs, etc. I haven’t found any articles that substantiate your claims about torture increasing flavor and the likes. If they in fact exist, kindly link them.
      
      As for your constantly repeating that I should “educate myself”, it is hilarious that it is coming from someone who uses punctuation wrong, doesn’t capitalize, employs double negatives and makes multiple spelling mistakes throughout.
      
      Once again, congratulations on your double standards towards animals.
      - kine
        
        of course I am. That just didn’t seem like a good enough point to make to you . And when Im writing in complete disgust anger and disbelief, I forgot to put in *soulely* a discussion about dog vs. chicken. And ps: you cant clarify when you don’t know me, and i don’t think you are stupid, so i think you understood my point. To start repremending ME about comercially farmed chicken and welfare issues in general , you can spare yourself. I may even know more than you. I work day and night fighting animal abuse around the globe.
        
        English is not my first language, and I deeply suspect that you understood everything i wrote. AGAIN, when you write in agony, disgust , in hurt and dispair- you will just have to excuse my few punctuation flaws.
        
        I am vegen , even though thats not a point i need to make, but since you think you can say I have double standards THAT is hillarious.
        
        You are obviously offended by my comment and are lashing out with stupid comments.
        
        I would gladly educate you on yulin , and the dog/cat meat trade i china, korea , thailand and others .
        
        But you do not seem to really care.
        
        Right now, my heart is broken , because today marks the day of the yulin torture fest. And I don’t feel like arguing with someone like you .
      - Daniel Pagan Murphy
        
        This was a very long post that added next to nothing to the discussion. You claim to know a lot more about the issue than me. It’s very possible, but you still didn’t link to an article to substantiate the claims you made. If you are a vegan for animal rights reasons then I take back the part about being a hypocrite, since it appears you don’t make a special case for dogs, which is the main thing I take issue with. One last thing: in this life you will encounter many people who might disagree with your point of view. When that happens, the way to debate is not to get angry and self righteous but to argue calmly and logically. Finally, may I enquire as to the reasons for your veganism?
      - kine
        
        oh my god. you are so beyond help .. I hope you find a greater cause in life than this. you are not interested in being educated, i have written a PAGE now almost packed with FACTS about the yulin torture fest! and you are completely ignoring everything . YOUR ANSWERS ARE ON MY POSTS ! READ THE PICTURES ! If you truly care about animal rights you will do your own work ! find your own links ! Get involved with some hard working animal rights organisations and you will get ALL THE ANSWERS YOU “WANT”. I have answered. And you have completely ignored everything i written about the SICK TWISTED INSANE EVIL TORTURE ! AND HAVE YOU EVEN FLINCHED AN EYE ??
        
        YOU DONT WANT TO BE EDUCATED. YOU JUST WANT TO BE INTELLECTUALLY RIGHT, AND YOU ARE NOT EVEN THAT. I AM INTELLECTUALLY RIGHT. You are not even educated about this WHAT so ever ! EDUCATE YOURSELF. And if you dont want to, like you dont, than STOP trying to obstruct US from educating others who WANT to learn ! You are just s****ting all over every good persons post. For what ? We are trying to save lives , what are you doing ??
        
        I am so done with you !This is an article about the YULIN TORTURE FEST ! NOT EVERY ANIMAL WELFARE ISSUE AROUND THE GLOBE ! I am trying to educate people about the sick twisted INSANE TORTURE THAT OCCURS , AND THE SICK REASONS WHY- FACTS!! READ !I don’t know what you point is AT . ALL. If you are trying to make some sort of stupid point that “if you are not vegen or vegetarian you should not fight for animal rights ” than that is so beyond intellectually wrong , you dont even know how you sound !
        
        I will write however long I please. I am trying to save lives here!! STOP THE YULIN TORTURE FEST!!!
        
        EVERY VEGEN-VEGETARIAN- NON VEGEN – NON -VEGETARIAN OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT – I AM WITH YOU . NEVER STOP ! FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT ! 1 FAMILY!
      - Elaine Kelly
        
        Don’t bother .. he is a young kid looking to antagonize .. anyone with an ounce of brain and some heart knows what is wrong here. Ignore .. .
      - kine
        
        i had been awake for 4 days , working to try to stop the yulin dog eating festival , at least doing anything I could do from the other side of the globe, crying for a week… i let myself fall into the childish argumentative ways of him… its hard to keep composure when you are exhausted.. i feel bad for mentioning that i am vegan when that is not a point that needs to be made. . he was wracking his brain taking something i wrote out of a sentence twisting it and using it against me, it was laughable, but i was tired. fighting for animal rights is a right every sane person on this planet has. meat eater or not.
        I have edited my one comment to him up above. maybe this time, it will go through his head.
        
        to every person hurting right now bevause of the yulin i am thinking of you…
        
        r.i.p. to the tortured and slaughtered , 6/21/14 .
      - Leim
        
        He is just trying to stir up people who care. There are sick people who get off on doing that and hope that you suffer from their comment. They are a waste of space.
      - Daniel Pagan Murphy
        
        I’m some cultures they might well be food. I am not condoning animal torture, just that the definition of what is considered “food” is by no means universal.
      - kine
        
        No kidding. However YOU started a discussion about that! Like its not obvious. But the majority of the people on this planet do not consider dogs and cats as food, so its pretty universal- including the majority of people in the certain countries that have dog/cat meat trades! Yes, people in some countries have grown up eating dogs and cats, and many are oblivious to the TORTURE in these trades ! Media coverage about the torture didn’t even really startuntil about 4 years ago. Many are oblivious , they just by the meat, never knowing about anything else, -.
        what you would call “culture” , that is why it so important to EDUCATE.
        Then you have the SICK F****S of the Yulin festival , where they are enjoying the torture! Even the crowd, the meat buyers, they are laughing, smiling , taunting , even children are laughing, while a dog is beeing tortured in the most grusome ways .
        
        We need to
        educate And that is WHY opposition is now growing ! People are becoming aware ! Would you ever eat a chicken , if before it was served to you ,
        you knew, that it had been tortured so undescribably , or had been raised for meat consuption in grusome conditions with zero rights ?
        CONCIOUS CHOICES, AND ENDING TORTURE! ! EDUCATION AND AWARENESS !
        
        And last but not even close to least-Most of the dogs are stolen pets, stealing pets from people homes/gardens has become a trade in itself-
        Dirty sick evil thieves make a PROFIT from stealing these animals. A high number of the strays/dogs in these trades are manifested with deseases like Rabies! Rabies outbreak-numbers are huge in these
        countries, people have died from rabies.
        
        This trade MUST . END . !
      - Leim
        
        Check out your writing Mr.Punctuation expert. You are looking more stupid with every piece of rubbish you post. You have NO IDEA fool.
      - Leim
        
        You are a pathetic person. How you can condone such horror and cruelty on animals is sickening. Also, so what if someone doesn’t punctuate correctly, what is your point attacking someone for that . You have absolutely no idea and really you are a waste of time. I should not even bother replying to such an idiot.
- Thuy Usahi
  
  “Dogs are great companions. They bring much love, happiness, and longevity to our lives. Smart people don’t eat dogs. We have them as our beloved companions. Our dog is our family’s beloved baby.” -MindfulLife
  
  Chihuahua Doing Yoga
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  - Daniel Pagan Murphy
    
    That is an arbitrary opinion. A lot of people consider dogs pets, but others might not. In a lot of countries for example, rabbits are considered pets, whilst in others they are food. In some countries they are even both! My point is putting dogs in a different category from other animals for arbitrary cultural reasons is wrong.
    - kine
      
      this will be my last post on this page. whatever you want to say to me, i really don’t care . I wish you no harm. I only wish you would use your time helping instead of trying to convince others that this is not wrong
    - Elaine Kelly
      
      Go move there then … Daniel ! You are foolish and love to antagonize.
- Elaine Kelly
  
  You are a foolish to speak this way Daniel. Killing sentinel beings is always wrong.. yet this torturous behavior against companion pets is appalling… and whats more your cavalier indifference is to.
  - Daniel Pagan Murphy
    
    I think you mean sentient.
    - kine
      
      I think you understood what she wrote.
- Joe Vigliatura
  
  Simply put Daniel, I eat chicken because it’s part of the culture I grew up in. I have several dogs and to me they are like my children. Hence I do not eat dogs. I think dogs make better companions than chickens and are smarter. If people eat dog meat as part of their culture, then good for them. I can’t see how dog meat would be more nutritious than chicken meat, but to each his own. Touch my dog and you’re dead.
  - Daniel Pagan Murphy
    
    Pigs ate generally acknowledged to be very smart and yet most people who eat pork wouldn’t dream of eating dog. But I agree with what you said, the culture you are born into defines your standards for food.
    - kine
      
      yeah, sure, THAT defines you standards. EDUCATION defines your standards! And here we go again , “you eat pig they eat dog, get over it. ” THIS IS ABOUT TORTURE! AND THE TORTUROUS DOG/CAT MEAT TRADE !AND SICK FU**** YULIN DOG TORTURE FEST ! AND I WILL REPEAT IT , ON EVERY SINGLE POST YOU COMMENT ON, UNTIL YOU GET THAT.
    - kine
      
      Stop deflecting the issue which is torture and going off topic . Are you bored or something ? What good does this do? This is an article about the yulin dog torture fest! You are officially supporting the dog/cat meat trade and yulin festival by trying to tell others that they shouldn’t speak up against it . If you don’t condemn torture , as you stated above, then WHY…. THE H….. ARE YOU SPENDING YOUR TIME ON HERE ARGUING WITH US UNDER THIS PARTICULAR ARTICLE…….
      
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Thuy Usahi

“Dogs are great companions. They bring much love, happiness, and longevity to our lives. Smart people don’t eat dogs. We have them as our beloved companions. Our dog is our family’s beloved baby.” -MindfulLife

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Elaine Kelly

These are sub humans and sick!!! I am sick of this !! EVOLVE AND WAKE UP ALREADY DAMMIT WORLD !!!!!!!
Cassy Verana

My faith in humanity is deteriorating
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dalereed

this is one of the worst things i have ever see a man killing a loved one for money and then beating a woman who is trying to save her be love dog this man needs to be beat and put in jail
tillytree

The trouble is the violence and level of torture they use against the dogs before eating them,that s the sick and evil part of it,what kind of people do this sort of thing?sadists,thugs,arrogance?

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