Inside look at China's vile dog meat markets(Graphic Photos)
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Horrific photos show the fate of hundreds of dogs in China that are brought to restaurants to be killed and eaten.
The graphic images show caged live dogs awaiting slaughter and canHuine carcasses piled on top of each other in a dog meat market in Yulin City, Guangxi Province, located in southern China.
China has a long tradition of eating dogs in emergency situations where food is scarce.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
A dog to be killed is caged at a free market in Yulin city.
It is one of only 11 countries left in the world where it is both legal and socially acceptable to eat dogs.
Anti-animal cruelty campaigns, however, are expanding as more members of China’s middle class begin to keep dogs as pets.
In particular, many people object to the manner in which dogs are killed to be eaten. The canines are often beaten to death in order to release blood into the meat.
A Chinese vendor cooks a stew made out of dog meat.
In January, an animal-loving blogger in Chongqing rescued over 1,100 dogs destined for the slaughterhouse, according to China Daily.
The dogs, which were later found to be in poor health from the terrible conditions, were founds crammed into cages stacked on top of each other on a flatbed truck.
Cai Chunhong, a Beijing lawyer who focuses on animal protection, told the newspaper that it is difficult to stop the slaughtering of animals due to the lack of legal protections.
Chinese vendors transport cages of dogs to be killed and eaten.
“But as the country lacks regulation on the slaughter of cats and dogs, dealers will not be punished when they ship dead or sick animals for dinner tables,” Chunhong said. “Therefore, such cruel business cannot be easily banned in the near future.”
But China may be slowly changing its view on dog-eating.
In September 2011, the government banned a dog-eating festival that had been celebrated for over 600 years in response to a national online outcry over the manner in which the dogs are slaughtered, the Xinhua news agency reports.
A Chinese vendor rides a motor scooter to transport canine carcasses.
Animals being prepared for a meal next to a living dog
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I don't
well then....I will move along
Done sorry about that
Investigators working for Animal Equality managed to secretly record the killing process at slaughterhouses in the cities of Jiangmen and Zhanjiang.
http://youtu.be/J_qCbZVdUhY
The shocking footage shows dogs kept in tiny cages stacked on top of each other before they are clubbed and their throats slit while still conscious on filthy floors.
Bernard Rollin, professor of animal sciences and biomedical sciences at Colorado University, described the footage as "The worst, the most evil and horrific [thing] I have seen in my life."
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/45457 ... uality.htm
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Morrissey
That said, I didn't watch the video (can't do it, not when it's dogs) nor know enough about animal processing in the US to really make a comparison.
I get madder about mistreatment while the animals are alive though. Cramped cages, abuse by farm workers, not free range, maddening. We have switched to grass fed pastured chickens and beef. It costs more but at least the animals are treated well.
Godfather.
An annual Chinese dog meat festival will go ahead on Friday, despite animal cruelty protests.
The festival, held in Guangxi province, sees dogs packed into cages before being killed, skinned and cooked.
The protests were led by members of the Boai Small Animal Protection Centre, who are calling for the local government to cancel it, AFP reports.
Around 10,000 dogs are due to be slaughtered.
The group is hailing a small victory in that the local government has agreed to provide a special team to monitor the festival.
“I think the team will reduce the cruelty somewhat, but mostly on the surface,” said group founder Du Yufeng.
She added: “We have seen animals beaten just before being cooked… the more we inspect, the more cruelty we discover.”
http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3470777
Fucking savages
ZHANJIANG, CHINA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/30/13 -- Last Chance for Animals (LCA) and Animal Equality have joined forces to infiltrate the dog meat trade in China and expose the cruelty behind the slaughter of dogs for food. Undercover investigators, pretending to be part of the dog meat industry, entered several slaughterhouses and markets. Shocking footage and photos were taken of workers dragging terrified dogs across blood stained floors, bashing their skulls with metal poles and slitting their throats with knives. Other dogs, in paralyzing fear, are forced to watch while awaiting their turn to be tortured to death. Millions of people believe that cat and dog slaughter for human consumption is absolutely unacceptable.
At one slaughterhouse in Zhanjiang, the investigators noticed one trembling dog (later named Vita) trying to get their attention by scratching a metal door with her paw and staring with pleading eyes. The investigator explained, "We gained the trust of the workers, we then tricked them and managed to take Vita out." Shortly after her rescue, Vita was taken to Europe and adopted by a caring family.
Vita, like millions of dogs every year in China, was probably stolen from a family before being butchered and sold for meat. It is estimated that approximately 50,000 dogs are killed each day in China for their meat or fur.
LCA and Animal Equality have launched an international campaign against the China Dog Meat trade and are working with several organizations in China, such as Guangzhou Volunteer Center, to close down dog slaughterhouses and markets in China. More than 190,000 people have already signed the petition at http://www.VoicelessFriends.org asking Chinese officials to end the cruel dog meat trade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qCbZVdUhY
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/8/ ... animal.htm
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Morrissey
Fuck the Chinese let them starve to death
Much as this thread turns my stomach, GF's question up there is pretty profound.
Not sure I could give an absolute answer to it - likely not from my relatively comfortable position.
Ignorance and bigotry alive and well on the Moving Train. How are the factory farms doing in the U.S these days? The animals there being treated well?
And Godfather, people don't eat dog, and rat, and whatever else in China because they're poor. China's not a poor country anymore. It's the 2nd biggest economy in the World, and expected to overtake the U.S by the year 2020. The reasons some people here eat that type of food is purely cultural.
By the way, do you eat meat?
Cruelty to animals is wrong though, livestock should never be beaten or injured, and many mass farming techniques we have developed are deplorable. Consumers are used to cheap meat now though, poor families rely on it in fact, and outlawing some of these practices would push meat prices up sharply, so they will remain.
Of course they're not treated well and I've offered my opinion in these threads among others
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=123797&hilit=factory+farm
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=205814&hilit=gag
How are we to view a culture that is threatening to wipe out endangered species such as Tigers, Elephants and Rhinos among others all in the name of "traditional" chinese medicine which has been proven to be a crock of shit.
No
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
And no, I don't eat any of the creatures listed above or any animal, for that matter. Seems horrible to make a living, feeling creature suffer and die because I like the taste of meat
If poor families need cheap meat, why is obesity so high amongst the poor? Maybe they should be eating less meat and less of everything
No it hasn't.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/80729 ... iaKYLxV5A0
'..TCM has been proved effective in treating patients of SARS, bird flu and other infectious diseases hitting China over the past 10 years, said Chen Weiwen, a legislative deputy from Guangdong Province, at the on-going bimonthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.
Statistics showed that when patients suffering the H7N9 virus were treated with a combination of Chinese and western methods, the death rate was 9.1 percent, much lower than the 30 percent when using only western treatments.
TCM can help shorten the duration of a disease and improve patients' abilities to tolerate pain. The low cost of TCM can also help relieve the burden of treatment fees that patients face, Chen said.
Don't forget shark fin soup. Sharks pay a pretty high price for their dorsal fins to become the feature ingredient in a bowl of soup.
I get the dogs thing and don't really have a problem with it- we do the same to other animals; but I don't get the seemingly uncaring attitude that the Chinese exhibit towards 'luxury' animals.
A lot of them eat ducks heads, and chickens feet, e.t.c. Also, eggs with the fetus inside, and whole chicks. It's pretty disgusting.
They eat this shit because they think that by eating a particular part of an animal, or a whole animal, they'll imbibe it's qualities. I.e, eating a brain will make you smarter. I sometimes get into discussions with them here on this subject, and ask them obvious questions like, 'If you could eat 20 ducks heads a day then why aren't there millions of Albert Einsteins in China?' Or, 'Why not chickens heads?' They tell me that chickens are stupid. Go figure. i.e, ducks are smart??
Yeah, it's kind of warped.
But at the same time, the Western countries have been raping the Earths resources and destroying the rainforests for decades because they can, and because they think they have a right to. So what's the difference? Both cultures are deluded and destructive.
Don't get me wrong... I have plenty of problems with western culture. I was merely expressing my dissatisfaction with the practice of finning.
And I am aware of some of those 'gross' items you have referred to and more: Three Squeak Mice, spiders, etc. Not for me- not even on the most tempting of dares.
This displays a fundamental lack of understanding of what commonly leads to obesity in the poor. It's not from eating cheap fresh meat, that's for sure. Poor people are more obese because even with fresh meat and vegetables as cheap as they are, it is still cheaper to get large amounts of calories from fast food.
Meat prices going up is not going to help people eat less fast food, it's only going to make matters even worse. Opining nonsense like "maybe they should be eating less of everything" is a completely lazy manner of sidestepping the complex economic and cultural factors involved. In case you haven't noticed, just telling poor people what they should be doing is not helping shit.
If your argument is correct, then cheap meat won't help these people at all, while condemning billions of animals a year to a short life of nothing but misery. As well as being ethical, a plant based diet is the most efficient and environmentally sound way to feed a larger number of people. And yes, people are obese because they eat too much, and usually too much crap.
Obviously you didn't read or comprehend my post properly, because at no point did I say obese people do not eat too much crap. I pointed out that there are complex reasons why poor people tend to eat the wrong things, leading to greater instances of obesity in the poor.
Taking away their access to cheap fresh meat is obviously only going to push them further into eating cheap processed foods, and spouting some vegetarian utopia pipe dream is not going to help the situation either. Just telling poor overweight people they should be vegetarian instead is functionally useless, and utterly impractical since cheap processed foods are still much cheaper than fresh vegetables and fruit.
And nearly everyone I've asked about it has said they've never eaten and have no interest in eating it.
There's a province in the South where it's popular - Guizhou; and in Guangdong (bordering Hong Kong) they're notorious for eating anything that moves. But apart from that you'll be hard pressed to find it in most places.
Eeesh.
i looked them up & all those places listed above have dog meat trade flourishing.
i will not put the link here but there's a youtube video titled: "hell on earth - thailand's dog meat trade"
just watched a dog barbeque in cambodia... disrespectful assholes
one guy keeps beating a very dead roasting dog across its head with his badass little stick/club
jerk
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You better get the fuck out of there Byrnzie, before they finally figure out that you're smart and try to eat your brains! :P