Let’s get something out of the way first: The Yulin Dog Meat Festival in Southern China is a disgusting, cruel, and indefensible event — thousand of dogs and cats are inhumanly killed there each year. ... Read More
Category: China Edits Comm Dogs
I ate dog just once, and it was an accident. A Chinese scrap-metal dealer with whom I'm friendly invited me to a fancy hotpot restaurant in Chongqing. As the waitress delivered bowl after bowl of ... Read More
July 3, 20164Guardians2
Don’t look now but China is about to score another propaganda victory. This time the chosen battlefield is the rarefied but nicely symbolic world of dog fancying. China’s objective, not for the first time, is ... Read More
March 30, 20164Guardians2
Yulin's dog meat "festival," where some 10,000 dogs are slaughtered and served up as meals, is often wrongly assumed to be an ancient Chinese tradition. In fact, the festival only dates back to 2009 when ... Read More
June 19, 20154Guardians2