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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.
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. Thousands of dogs to be slaughtered in Chinese ...
Zhang Zongchang (Chinese: 張宗昌; pinyin: Zhāng Zōngchāng; also romanized as Chang Tsung-chang; 1881 – 3 September 1932), courtesy name Xiaokun, was a Chinese warlord who ruled Shandong from 1925 to 1928.
The tradition of eating dog meat for ritual purposes in some ethnic groups survived into the modern times in the Cordillera highlands of the Philippines. Among Cordillerans, dogs are sacrificed and eaten in a cleansing ritual known as dao-es or daw-es. The ritual is typically done after a person dies unexpectedly (through murder or an accident ...
In fact, it’s the national dog of Finland! The breed’s history is not well-documented, although breed standards were established by 1812. Ever since, it’s been used to hunt small game and ...
The manager of the zoo told Chinese media outlets that the painted dogs were one of the location’s “specialties.” Even so, the unusual display caused videos of the disguised dogs to go viral ...
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.
In defense of stray dogs. This is not the first time Chinese authorities have been accused of being heavy-handed with animals. During Covid, some pet owners complained that their dogs were beaten ...