This year’s Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival – a harrowing display in Guangxi, China, in which vendors slaughter dogs openly for consumption on the street – appeared to attract significantly less interest that prior iterations, animal rights organizations told Breitbart News this week, though not due to any action to deter the event by Chinese authorities.
South Korea lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill banning the breeding, slaughtering, and selling dogs for their meat. The move ends a centuries-old practice activists have slammed as a national embarrassment.
South Korea is planning to ban eating dog meat; the ancient practice has brought much criticism from around the world.
A lack of demand among youth and growing global disgust as the nation amasses cultural and economic prestige are forcing South Korea to reconsider its longstanding tradition of consuming dog meat – a custom it has never regulated legally, the Associated Press detailed in a report on Monday.
The end of China’s coronavirus lockdowns, curious Western tourists, and “mass police corruption” have made this year’s Yulin Dog Meat and Lychee Festival, a ten-day outdoor animal slaughter event, one of the biggest ever, animal rights activists – including some currently rescuing dogs in the city, told Breitbart News.
Authorities in central Mexico arrested a man who is believed to have collected close to 100 dogs that he would fatten up, butcher, and allegedly sell as meat for tacos.
A representative of Plush Bear’s Shelter, an animal rights group operating within China, told Breitbart News this weekend that Chinese police have been stationed to prevent onlookers from photographing images of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival this year.
South Korea’s government will launch formal talks about outlawing dog meat consumption this week as recent national polls suggest the practice has become increasingly unpopular.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is forcing households in the capital, Pyongyang, to turn in their pet dogs to the government so that they may be sold to restaurants for human consumption amid a national food shortage.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday urged both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. to move against Asia’s live animal wet markets, arguing they pose “great risks” to global health and wellbeing.
The British government’s Ministry of Justice has blocked a “culturally insensitive” move to ban cat meat and dog meat, fearing it could offend people in Asian countries.