Dogs and Cats Eaten as a Festival

Source: Yulin dog meat festival begins in China amid widespread criticism

About 10,000 dogs and cats are expected to be killed and eaten during the controversial 10-day festival in Yulin. Activists say the event is cruel, and this year a petition calling for it to be banned collected 11 million signatures. The local government says the festival does not have official backing but is staged by private businesses.

The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival sees people gathering in Yulin to sample dog meat hotpot, lychee fruits and local liquor. A tradition of eating dog meat dates back some 500 years in China, South Korea and other countries, where many believe it wards off the heat in summer months. The Yulin festival, celebrated during the summer solstice, is a relatively new one, beginning only in recent years. Residents and vendors in Yulin say the animals are killed in a humane way. But critics say animals are killed brutally and publicly, and are sometimes beaten to death or cooked while still alive. Ahead of the festival, dogs are often kept in small, cramped cages. Some photographs show animals wearing collars, suggesting they may have been stolen pets. Many dogs are transported from other cities in cramped lorries and unsanitary conditions, allowing diseases to spread easily. According to campaign group Stop Yulin Forever, dogs are denied food and water for days during their trip.

Personal Reflection
After babies, I found this article talking about dogs and cats eaten in China as a festival. Human cruelties are now no longer a secret, they even show to the public. This could indicate that people nowadays don't have any humanity left, for they already got what they want and they don't care about the rest. I think we as a human should have respect other creatures, maybe we could at the least eat those domestic pet silently or not-to-eat them at all, they should be a pet anyways. If this keep on happening I could assume that animals are all going to extinct, not only the wild but the tame as well... Hope they would realize what they had been doing and repent to not to do the same despicable things.