Stop the Yulin Dog & Cat meat Festival 2016
The Issue
Preparations of the Yulin Festival start at the beginning of June, several weeks before the 21st by organising how the dogs and cats will be brought into YuLin. Stalls need to be organised, slaughterhouses need to ensure paperwork is in order. It is unclear how long the festival lasts. In previous years it has been a week long celebration.
*How do the dogs get there and where are they from?*
Some are trucked in on lorries with quarantine certificates (under scrutiny many are discovered to be falsified.) Other dog and cat smugglers avoid main roads using motorcycles to get the animals into YuLin without the required paperwork. Sadly some owners bring their unwanted pets into YuLin to make a profit. There is CCTV footage of dogs being stolen from properties and there are reports of dogs being poisoned with darts and crossbows.
*Why are the dog tortured? (Graphic description)*
The torture begins with a rough capture and cramped transport conditions, exposed to the elements (no refreshment so they are dehydrated) and the dogs and cats will bite each other if being crushed. No care is taken unloading cages so limbs are shattered. This carelessness is for speed and maximum profit.
Dogs are beaten to the head to render them inactive, some slaughterers are more skilled than others, sometimes it takes many strikes. The throat or chest is cut and the blood is drained, the blood will drain quicker as the heart is still beating. They are thrown into plucking machines with boiling water to spin off the fur, again often at this point the animal is still not dead so effectively they are being boiled alive.
Those vendors without the expensive dog plucking machines will remove fur by either dangling the dog from a hook and skinning them while still warm. Another method is rubbing off the fur after repeatedly dipping them into hot water whilst clamping their necks with long handled metal tongs. Torture is guaranteed for dogs and cats.
This is Sick and Wrong. Please help me stop Yulin 2016 by signing and sharing this petition.
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The Issue
Preparations of the Yulin Festival start at the beginning of June, several weeks before the 21st by organising how the dogs and cats will be brought into YuLin. Stalls need to be organised, slaughterhouses need to ensure paperwork is in order. It is unclear how long the festival lasts. In previous years it has been a week long celebration.
*How do the dogs get there and where are they from?*
Some are trucked in on lorries with quarantine certificates (under scrutiny many are discovered to be falsified.) Other dog and cat smugglers avoid main roads using motorcycles to get the animals into YuLin without the required paperwork. Sadly some owners bring their unwanted pets into YuLin to make a profit. There is CCTV footage of dogs being stolen from properties and there are reports of dogs being poisoned with darts and crossbows.
*Why are the dog tortured? (Graphic description)*
The torture begins with a rough capture and cramped transport conditions, exposed to the elements (no refreshment so they are dehydrated) and the dogs and cats will bite each other if being crushed. No care is taken unloading cages so limbs are shattered. This carelessness is for speed and maximum profit.
Dogs are beaten to the head to render them inactive, some slaughterers are more skilled than others, sometimes it takes many strikes. The throat or chest is cut and the blood is drained, the blood will drain quicker as the heart is still beating. They are thrown into plucking machines with boiling water to spin off the fur, again often at this point the animal is still not dead so effectively they are being boiled alive.
Those vendors without the expensive dog plucking machines will remove fur by either dangling the dog from a hook and skinning them while still warm. Another method is rubbing off the fur after repeatedly dipping them into hot water whilst clamping their necks with long handled metal tongs. Torture is guaranteed for dogs and cats.
This is Sick and Wrong. Please help me stop Yulin 2016 by signing and sharing this petition.
Thank you
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Petition created on February 1, 2016