Dog meat festival
The dog meat festival takes place annually since 2009 from 21 to 30 June in the Chinese Yulin Autonomous Region Guangxi the Zhuang occasion of the summer solstice instead. The main attraction is the meat of around 10,000 dogs slaughtered especially for the festival and also some cats. The meat is served at the festival with lychee and liqueur, among other things .
On May 18, 2017, animal welfare organizations Duo Duo and Humane Society International announced that Yulin City will prohibit restaurants, street stalls and market vendors from selling dog meat during the 2017 festival. However, this ban was demonstrably not observed and the festival took place despite the alleged ban.
criticism
Animal rights activists from countries where dog meat is not common protested repeatedly against the festival, but criticism of the festival was repeated within China as well. The dog meat sellers from Yulin and their supporters, on the other hand, state that the animals are killed in a comparatively gentle way. Although China took dogs from the national livestock catalog at the end of May 2020 in view of the global corona pandemic, the privately organized dog meat festival started in Yulin in June.
Web links
- Article on heute.de from June 22, 2015 ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friend or food? Dog meat trade divides China . CNN. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
- ↑ China prohibits sales of dog meat at festival orf.at, May 18, 2017, accessed May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Why China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival Won't Be Canceled This Year After All .
- ↑ China Yulin dog meat festival under way despite outrage . BBC News. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ↑ Thousands of animals slaughtered at the dog meat festival in China . DerStandard.at. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
- ↑ Shenzhen prohibits the consumption of dogs and cats , from April 3, 2020 in Kleinezeitung.at
- ↑ Dog meat festival will take place in China from June 18, 2020 in Vier-pfoten.at despite the new regulation that protects dogs
