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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.
The eating of dog meat in China dates back to around 500 BCE, and possibly even earlier. It has been suggested that wolves in southern China may have been domesticated as a source of meat. [204] Mencius (372–289 BCE) talked about dog meat as being an edible, dietary meat. [205]
An annual dog meat festival in China has attracted the attention of animal lovers worldwide, and many are now working to put an end to the event.
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]
Though dog meat remains a delicacy in many regions, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a notice that dogs would no longer be considered as livestock. China reclassifies dogs as pets, not ...
In French Indochina, the slaughtering and eating of dogs was banned in the late 19th century. However, dog meat began to be consumed again after the French left. [9] In France the practice of banning dog meat consumption had also began around the 1930s before it spread across France and colonial domains.
Chinese immigrants made up just .02% of the United States population in 1882, he noted, yet that year Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, banning immigration from China for a decade.
In East Asia, most countries rarely consume dog meat with the exception of China, Vietnam, North and South Korea either because of Islamic or Buddhist values or animal rights as in Taiwan. Manchus have a prohibition against the eating of dog meat, which is sometimes consumed by the Manchus' neighboring Northeastern Asian peoples. The Manchus ...