Every year for 10 days,
thousands of dogs are slaughtered in southern
China's Guangxi province during the Yulin Dog Meat
Festival. This bloody annual event promotes the dog meat
industry's terrible, torturous practices -- in fact, it
was literally started by the industry to boost
plummeting dog meat sales. Clearly, the outdated
tradition of eating dog meat hasn't been popular among
the people of China -- and neither is this
festival. More and more pressure from
within the country is being put on President Xi Jinping
to end the festival once and for all, and we must
continue to elevate those voices and urge the president
to take action!
A
growing number of people in China are pet owners, and a
shocking number of slaughtered dogs at Yulin are
literally abducted from households by vendors who want
extra meat. Journalists and animal
advocates have leaked countless photographs of dogs
still wearing collars from their owners before they are
brutally butchered. Those selling meat at
the festival will even pick up innocent strays to kill
to make extra profit.
The slaughtering is gruesome
enough, but the details of the animals' treatment before
their deaths are even worse. Many vendors believe that
adrenalin makes the meat that they are preparing taste
better, so some of the dogs killed are literally
tortured and beaten to raise their adrenaline before
they are killed. Often, the dogs are then
skinned and boiled alive. The festival started
June 21st, so we must act quickly. Sign the petition now to tell
President Xi Jinping, the atrocities of the Yulin Dog
Meat Festival have gone on for too
long.
