Food festivals around the world are often a place to showcase exotic meats and other bizarre foods you might not otherwise eat, but only China can thousands of people show up to a food festival and welcome the opportunity to eat dog. A lot of it.
Yulin, a city in eastern China, is renowned for being one of the world’s foremost producers of “flavorsome dog meat.” I guess the stereotypes are true.
Now, in America, this wouldn’t go over to well. Over 15,000 dogs, known as “fragrant meat” in the region, were slaughtered for the week-long festival. The animals, of which there were a number of different breeds, are raised by farmers specifically to be slaughtered and consumed by the masses.
According to one local, Lu Hin, the festival is a way to show the rest of China that the best dog meat in the country comes from Yulin. “Dog is popular as a dish in China but we are the home of it,” says Lu Hin. “We proved that when we started the festival a few years ago and everybody accepts that the best dog meat dishes come from Yulin.”
While us Westerners cringe at the notion of eating dog, the consumption of canine meat has been around for thousands of years in China. It is thought to provide innumerable medical benefits, but this hasn’t stopped outrage at the supposed cruelty of the practice. Currently an attempt is being made to ban the practice of eating dog meat, which is sure to upset the Chinese yet make the West very, very happy.
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Those people are seriously bass ackwards lol Just because something is old doesn't mean it's right.. 😡
tteymur
The Chinese might be ahead of the whole world because of their economy, and everything else…but this…this is the only thing that makes me hate them…..eating cats and dogs.
What is worse is that these bastards come to other countries, and DO THE SAME THERE. On alien turf.
This is so wrong. sadly, there are so many chinese, that no one wants to do anything about it.
Klem
Yet I believe eating pork, fish, beef, pigeons, veal does not matter to you, because eating pork is what "civilized" people do….
Why are THEY wrong, what make you eating beef RIGHT?
wendebular
I thought that this site might provide some entertaining and strange news, but instead you get people writing about what will make western people happy when it has nothing to do with them. Who cares if a bunch of entitled westerners think a certain practice is 'wrong'?
How can tteymur 'hate' Chinese people for this? If you find out that they are breaching any kind of ethics by torturing animals before they eat them, fine. But then take a look at how pigs and battery hens are raised for civilised westerners to eat them.
Kevin Butler
Wait ’till Cujo finds out about this….
GoGoVegan
Well, its ok. The reason. If you eat dog in your next life you become a dog for eating. They will know what it feels like one day to be a dog that is raised to be food. They are eating their ancestors who taught them to do this.
GoGoVegan
Well, its ok. The reason. If you eat dog in this life, then in your next life you become a dog for eating. They will know what it feels like one day to be a dog that is raised to be food. They are eating their ancestors who taught them to do this.