Yulin Dog Meat Festival

[Banditbandit]

No, I'm certainly not a vegan.

I do however prefer that the animals that feed me haven't been subjected to unnecessary pain and suffering.

Dying to feed you is unnecessary pain and suffering ... eating meat is not necessary for humans ..

[240]

No, I'm certainly not a vegan.

I do however prefer that the animals that feed me haven't been subjected to unnecessary pain and suffering.

Taping up a dog's mouth so it can't make any noise while it is burned alive or breaking the legs of a dog so it can't jump out of a cauldron as it's boiled alive go way beyond anything that any human should consider acceptable.

Yep farken well said,this is just cruelty ffs

[Akzle]

Fair-ish call, I think they used to be considered a bit of a pest (how many thar, possums, rabbits and hares do hunters eat?) a

possums actually quite tasty...

Small comfort to the pig I expect.

I hear that in some despicably barbaric countries they pluck fish from the water before killing them, leaving the poor little buggers gasping and suffering up until the moment of death. Apparently some people do it just for sport... they just torture them in that manner before not even killing them and throwing them back in the water. WTF is with that sort of fucked up bullshit?

look up "iron chef", the guy that prepares an octopus - by beating it to death with a radish or some shit. delicious fucken japanese.

Dying to feed you is unnecessary pain and suffering ... eating meat is not necessary for humans ..

the fuck it isn't.

[pzkpfw]

Yep farken well said,this is just cruelty ffs

Yes.

I don't particularly mind people eating dogs, given I eat sheep and pigs and goats and deer and cows and chickens and rabbits and crocodiles and squids and fish and snails and ducks and turkeys and probably a few I've forgotten.

But that stuff is plain cruel. Shows what people can do.

[Virago]

...as happy as I am to eat a cow that's been trapped in paddocks it's entire life, I'd like to think it weren't set on fire or boiled alive before reaching my plate.

Exactly. No point in over-cooking it.

[awayatc]

No, I'm certainly not a vegan.

I do however prefer that the animals that feed me haven't been subjected to unnecessary pain and suffering.

Taping up a dog's mouth so it can't make any noise while it is burned alive or breaking the legs of a dog so it can't jump out of a cauldron as it's boiled alive go way beyond anything that any human should consider acceptable.

A fuckin men......
kat speaking up for dogs.....
next time I club me another f*kin barking mad Chinese trading partner,
Remember Fido.....

[mada]

Pretty horrible stuff, with the boiling alive.

That Yulin Festival has nothing to do with "Chinese culture" though as most don't eat dog.

The majority of the sellers themselves don't eat dog and a lot of the dogs are actually stolen pets. The sellers usually want to just get money - whether the dog dies or lives, they don't care. The festival was thought up by some dodgy officials who wanted to attract tourists to the craphole that really has nothing going for it and has stuck since.

Desperate people do desperate things. In a place where human life doesn't hold much value, not many place value on the lives of other "lesser" beings.

[98tls]

The festival was thought up by some dodgy officials who wanted to attract tourists to the craphole that really has nothing going for it and has stuck since.

Desperate people do desperate things. In a place where human life doesn't hold much value, not many place value on the lives of other "lesser" beings.

Makes me think "Auckland".

[Katman]

That Yulin Festival has nothing to do with "Chinese culture" though as most don't eat dog.

You're right of course. Sadistic animal cruelty disquised as 'celebration' is not exclusively Chinese.

Once a year the people of Citilcum in Mexico fill pinatas with live animals and beat them to death.

If a pinata bursts open and an animal has survived the beating it is ripped apart by the celebrating crowd.

I shit you not.

[98tls]

You're right of course. Sadistic animal cruelty disquised as 'celebration' is not exclusively Chinese.

Once a year the people of a town in Mexico fill pinatas with live animals and beat them to death.

I shit you not.

To be fair as we type theres hundreds if not thousands of dogs in our own fair land that if given the choice would leap at the chance to end the misery they endure.

[98tls]

Enough of that eh will interrupt with this...somewhat off topic but Ks last post made me feel

[mada]

Makes me think "Auckland".

Well there was that case a while back of the guy in his own backyard (but he had killed the dog swiftly apparently)!

Always having dogs, don't think I could ever eat it, same with Loi Hoosi (horse meat). Each to their own, but you hope they die quick and as little pain as poss.

[Katman]

Well there was that case a while back of the guy in his own backyard (but he had killed the dog swiftly apparently)!

Always having dogs, don't think I could ever eat it, same with Loi Hoosi (horse meat). Each to their own, but you hope they die quick and as little pain as poss.

I do understand that within many cultures there is considered little difference between a dog and a sheep etc.

It is the sadistic barbarity of this particular event (along with the fact that a great many of the dogs are stolen family pets) that sets it apart from just another unusual custom.

[mada]

I do understand that within many cultures there is considered little difference between a dog and a sheep etc.

It is the sadistic barbarity of this particular event (along with the fact that a great many of the dogs are stolen family pets) that sets it apart from just another unusual custom.

Yeh definitely. The cynic in me says some at the market will treat the animals poorly on purpose to get more attention and from that more $$$ from people buying dogs that are still alive.

Last years Vicenews report on it showed local government still have a hand in it, with hired thugs disrupting protestors and the police doing nothing. Hopefully the central government will try and clamp it down, more likely they do nothing given they have so many other issues and animals/environment usually considered last.

[Tazz]

Pretty horrible stuff, with the boiling alive.

That Yulin Festival has nothing to do with "Chinese culture" though as most don't eat dog.

The majority of the sellers themselves don't eat dog and a lot of the dogs are actually stolen pets. The sellers usually want to just get money - whether the dog dies or lives, they don't care. The festival was thought up by some dodgy officials who wanted to attract tourists to the craphole that really has nothing going for it and has stuck since.

Desperate people do desperate things. In a place where human life doesn't hold much value, not many place value on the lives of other "lesser" beings.

Interesting target market....