RAISE YOUR PAW :- #StopYulin2015

Many of you might be wandering what’s this Yulin festival all about. Peeps, Over 10,000 dogs every year in southern china are tortured alive, skinned alive, boiled alive, even cut/stabbed and then been ultimately eaten. This `festival` is not a festival as the name suggests, The Yulin Dog Meat Festival is, contrary to what many might believe, not even a tradition. It was initiated only in the 1990's by the corrupt looking to find a way to profit off the selling of lychee. Perhaps you might be wandering why the slaughter of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Ducks and all the Fish don’t get so much of focus too , guys the case here is not of being eaten and killed but the Dogs are killed for the "pleasure" of taste and "diversity" of meats. These animals are tortured as much as possible, deliberately. They are skinned alive, and then they are cooked alive. Again, let me repeat that the torture is deliberate. In fact, it is the entire point of the dog & cat meat trade. This slow, calculate torture is because of belief that "the greater the suffering, the tastier the meat." They also believe that the greater suffering of the animal translates into blessings of increased luck. In fact, a very large portion of them -- are not even strays (not that whether they are strays should justify such cruelty), but rather were stolen from their loving homes. The owners are often threatened and even killed by the traffickers, because there is absolutely no law in China protecting animals from being killed, or tortured in any way you can imagine. Over there, it is entirely legal to torture and kill animals in broad daylight, in wide public view, and the authorities cannot intervene.

However, last year's event took a different turn where animal rights activists were trying to rescue dogs from their dreadful fate by purchasing them from the dog traders. The dog traders where asking excessive fees for their dogs. It became extortion.

In addition, many of the dogs are stolen pets as they still have collars on. Dogs are being stolen from their homes by being darted and drugged in the street. Unfortunately, these poisons will find their way into the meals of the festival goers.

This has to be stopped, this is the open act of cruelty and we can’t close our eyes for the same. Let’s do our bit .Promote hashtag on your social networking accounts #StopYulin2015 and sign the petition below: - https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china-stop-the-yulin-dog-meat-eating-festival

#StopYulin2015