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The Dog Meat Festival (Chinese: 狗肉节), also known as the Yulin Dog Meat Festival or Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, is an annual festival held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice from 21 June to 30 June in which festival observers consume dog meat accompanied by lychees or other plants.
In April 2016, Hsiung and two other members of DxE went to Yulin, China, the location of the infamous Dog Meat Festival, to document the animal cruelty. [25] [26] In one of the videos, dogs screamed as they were beaten to death. [27] Hsiung and two other DxE activists removed three dogs from the facility. [25]
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The decades-old tradition of eating dog and cat meat during the summer solstice seems normal for residents in the southern Chinese city of Yulin. Each year, some 10,000 dogs are cooked and ...
NoToDogMeat is a UK-based animal rights charity which supports rescue centres in countries which have a dog meat and cat meat trade. The charity, which is legally known as World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade, also campaigns against the killing of animals in the fur trade. [citation needed] NoToDogMeat operates around the world.
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Map including Yulin (labeled as YÜ-LIN (WATLAM) 鬱林) (AMS, 1954) Yulin is located in southeastern Guangxi province along the border with Guangdong. It is a hilly basin with a total area of 12,838 km 2 (4,957 sq mi). [3] Yulin's climate is subtropical and monsoonal. Average annual temperatures is 22.9 °C. Yearly precipitation is 1,577 mm.
China is estimated to be home to 168 million pet dogs. [82] Chinese activists prevented introduction of a bullfighting project in 2010 and rodeos in 2011. [1] Activists have pre-empted a foie gras factory, ended live feeding in zoos, and rescued thousands of dogs and cats from being killed for meat. [2]