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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.
Yulin is also infamous for its annual dog meat and lychee festival which takes place on 21 June, over the course of 10 days or so. Over 10,000 dogs are slaughtered at this festival for human consumption. The festival also includes consuming cat and lychee. Despite ongoing protests inside and outside of China, dogs are still seen as livestock. [6]
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 ...
Is "Dog Meat Festival" really the common name? I mean sure, "Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival" is the proper name, but even the lead calls the common name "Yulin Dog Meat Festival", and, well, "Dog Meat Festival" seems so generic, like a dictionary definition. Something must give. :) Anna Frodesiak 12:14, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
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Dog meats are sold in the market, and these meat mainly come from stray dogs. The butchering of dogs for meat is a traditional business, and China has been known for its dog meat. There is even a Lychee and Dog Meat Festival (or Yulin Dog Meat Festival) in which 10,000-15,000 dogs are consumed every year. [citation needed]
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