severnside gull
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Hopefully it's over by Thursday when I'll be in China. I've eaten most things from monkey and snake to giant ants and witchety-grubs but never been offered dog
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10,000 dogs and puppies to be eaten on Sunday in China
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gregbrighton
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It says it on the petition.
Fair point. Not enough of a reason to stop this festival though, imo. I'm sure that a small amount of dog stealing is going on as well, which should be stopped, obviously.
Though it is my understanding that the tastiest dog meat is bred specifically for it's meat.
Hotchilidog
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This dog festival is an absolute obscenity, it's not just the eating of dogmeat that is an outrage, it is the callous torture and violence meted out to the unfortunate dogs as well. Go check out the festival for yourself if you want to see humanity at its worst.
It is an utterly sickening event.
It is an utterly sickening event.
What an unfortunate nickname. Do you think they sell that?
Long way to go at short notice.
I agree daffodils are for girls and Morrissey. He should have self flagellated with a horse whip.
I've not looked at the background of this, but if the animals are tended and killed humanely (and that may be a big IF) then I agree and I say that as someone who is both a vegetarian and a dog lover.
glasfryn
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The only incorrect part of this is your last sentence, because you're spot on.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
THE CHINESE WILL KILL OR HAVE KILLED ANYTHING.
tigers (any breed)
elephants
rhino's
and if it is endagered all the better
gregbrighton
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That's terrible. I guess the people here thinks that it is OK because it's to eat and we shouldn't interfere with them. I'm glad you signed, glasfyn
The animals are treated terribly. Some of the things that happen to these dogs are totally unacceptable and extremely cruel. The thing is though animal welfare is extremely poor in China for all animals, food or otherwise. If this was a petition about pressuring China to treat all of it's animals better than I am sure we would all be on board. In fact the way they treat humans in China leaves an awful lot to be desired too. I guess that is the point I am trying to make, why just dogs, and why just in one part of China, for one week.
This festival actually includes cat meat as well. So add the fact that this petitioner chose to ignore another pet animal from the list of the saved makes it an even less worthy protest.
A pedant speaks. Those were gladioli not daffodils.
Brian Fantana
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And this is prime reason I have BUGGER ALL interest in going anywhere near China.
gregbrighton
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This really makes me sick to the core as well.
Interesting point, but I wonder if dogs through breeding become 'loyal & loving' or have they always had the capacity to be so, it depends on their own experiences.
On the one hand we have say Staffies that have a bad reputation mainly due to poor handlers and upteen Facebook posts about how loving they really are which seems to indicate that they are not pre-programmed one way or the other.
Would an unknown dog bred for food in China really have personality characteristics of the same breed of a suburban pet here in Engalnd, I somehow doubt it.
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You are correct but the same could be said of lots of countries. Us Brits went to lots of countries and demolished the local flora and fauna, it only in recent times that we have learnt from it. Dogs are not an endangered species though but by all means protest against their mistreatment.
There was something on BBC1 recently about the factory farming of dogs for pets in the UK and whilst I only saw trailers for it, it seems that we are willing to turn a blind eye to this practice if it means that we can purchase puppies cheaply.
Probably driven by poverty and hunger, then perhaps becomes enshrined in their culture, I cannot be sure.
It is such a vast country I suspect different areas have different habits of what they kill and what they eat.
It just seems a little inappropriate to foist upon a nation so diverse from ours our own interpretation of what sustainable food source they should kill and eat.
Gullflyinghigh
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As many have said, if it was done humanely then I don't really see an issue with dogs being used for food.
It may be seen as fairly distasteful here but the same could be said of other animals that're eaten around the world (horse, guinea pig). In the same way, I'm fairly certain there would a large swathe of people fairly miffed that we digest large amounts of cow.
All that being said, if the suffering inflicted is avoidable and unnecessary then it's wrong either way. I do struggle to see what an internet petition is going to do though, I can't imagine that anyone with any sway over the event will care, or even learn of its existence.
It may be seen as fairly distasteful here but the same could be said of other animals that're eaten around the world (horse, guinea pig). In the same way, I'm fairly certain there would a large swathe of people fairly miffed that we digest large amounts of cow.
All that being said, if the suffering inflicted is avoidable and unnecessary then it's wrong either way. I do struggle to see what an internet petition is going to do though, I can't imagine that anyone with any sway over the event will care, or even learn of its existence.