China’s Gruesome Yulin Dog Meat Festival Begins with Slow Sales, but Thousands Butchered
Animal rights activists documented the beginning of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival on Sunday, the summer solstice.

Animal rights activists documented the beginning of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival on Sunday, the summer solstice.

A dog slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, shut its doors for good this week, the first beneficiary of a program led by the animal rights groups Vshine Animal Protection Association and Humane World for Animals to help often impoverished dog butchers find new jobs and escape their gruesome livelihoods.

The owner of a Border Collie named “Chutou” who had built up a formidable fanbase on China’s Tiktok equivalent Douyin denounced this week that thieves stole his dog and sold it to a restaurant for $27, where it was butchered and eaten.

The results of a survey published by two animal rights organizations this week found that eating dogs is highly unpopular in the city of Yulin, China – home to a gory spectacle in which dog traders mark the summer solstice by butchering thousands of dogs in the streets and eating their meat with lychees.

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 is planning to ban eating dog meat; the ancient practice has brought much criticism from around the world.

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.

A pack of dogs are now safe and destined for new forever homes in the U.S. thanks to rescuers working against China’s brutal meat trade.

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.

The Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in southern China began this week, a Summer Solstice celebration that typically involved the brutal butchering and consumption of what animal rights activists say is thousands of dogs, many of them suspected stolen from homes where they lived as pets.

The Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, a tradition in the southern Chinese city, is set to begin on Summer Solstice, or Sunday, despite years of global animal rights activism urging China to end it.

The eating of cats and dogs was officially claimed to be banned in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday as part of a wider clampdown on the wildlife trade since the Wuhan coronavirus spread into a global pandemic.

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen wants local restaurants to take dogs and cats off their menus as the country clamps down on the wildlife trade scientists suspect led to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
