Guangxi Yulin residents accused advance dog party | dog meat section, Yulin _ to avoid the media news

　　Reference news network on June 19, said foreign media, animal rights activists said they found signs that the southern Chinese city of Yulin, is trying to make its much-criticized the dog meat section keeps a low profile. The feast will be held as scheduled on June 21, but local officials have taken steps to move there, the note-at this event there will be a lot of dogs are eaten.

According to the United States the New York Times, June 17, Yulin City Government announced that this is not an official event, the City Government will strictly enforce the law on food safety, "in recent years, Yulin city few people in Lunar summer solstice day gather to eat dog meat, lychee, and gradually formed a kind of diet within a certain range. The so-called ' Litchi dog meat section of the summer solstice ' is only an individual business and civil society that, in fact, does not exist this holiday season. "

Reports that downplay the activity also affected Yulin's advertising. Conservationists and local media say the selling dog meat restaurants and stalls in the sign of "dog" Word removed.

United States University of Houston Professor Peter Lee said recently to Yulin, stayed three days, found that local restaurants and slaughterhouses work seems to have been quietly prepared the dog meat section. He said: "the Government hopes to suppress that activity in the face of pressure from around the nation and the world, as well as provincial governments. ”

It was reported that China has no laws prohibiting cruelty to animals, and eating dog meat is a tradition, especially in some parts of the South and the North. But dog meat is not a homemade diet.

Reported that the dog meat trade is China a major target for animal rights activists criticized. In 2011, the volunteers had stopped a truck transporting nearly 500 dogs to the slaughterhouse, and paid the money to rescue these dogs. At that time, a dog section in East China are also under the pressure of public opinion was cancelled.

Animal rights activists stressed that in China, dog and cat meat is caused by lack of regulation of food safety threat. Due to the limited regular feeding of animal, stray dogs and dog are often caught and Yulin city to meet these needs. The lack of supervision at the slaughterhouse, dog dealers sometimes use poison to kill their prey, which gives ultimate eaters risk.

According to reports, in Yulin, and holiday-related activities have been stifled, but the behavior does not stop eating dog meat. Media reports said some residents of dog meat party from activists and the media. Peter Lee said he and his colleagues found in a place outside the city center, it was removed from the truck into the dog cage on a motorcycle, so less obvious when I was transported into the city. They also discovered a slaughtered dog slaughterhouses in the middle.

"We have arrived at the door but couldn't get in," he said, "we could see them in the selection of a dog, butcher knife, to Mao Ji has been in operation. Every few minutes you could hear the dog's wailing sounds. ”

(Original title: beauty news: Yulin of "dog day" under the pressure of opting)

(Edit: SN098)
10:14 June 19, 2014 Reference news