Animal cruelty is a crime in a growing number of countries throughout the world, and the lobbying that has prompted this sort of legislation has now taken another purpose: the Yulin Dog Festival 2015, a Chinese festival where dog meat is consumed every year.
A campaign has emerged in social media and across the Internet in the past few weeks to halt the Yulin Dog Festival 2015, as hundreds of thousands of Twitter and Facebook users have called out to #stopyulin2015 and even created a petition directed at the President of the People's Republic of China that has already gathered more than 3 million signatures on Change.org - but precedent says that the country's authorities aren't usually too preoccupied with foreigners' concern over the inner workings of China.
Every year, thousands of dogs are slaughtered for their meat in the Guangxi Zhuang province, and animal lovers and activists around the world are now asking that this be halted for the Yulin Dog Festival 2015, through an online petition directed at the President of the People's Republic of China that has already gathered more than 3 million signatures.
According to The Daily Beast, the people behind the Yulin Dog Festival 2015 are currently prepping more than 10,000 dogs for slaughter, in varying manners of death, to be served at the annual event; some of the forms of death include being strangled, getting their throats slit or the more shocking being beaten to death, and even boiled alive.
The Independent reports that, for the Yulin Dog Festival 2015, in fact the city's summer solstice, is scheduled for June 21 and June 22, and it has recently also added cats to its food preparations, while visitors also drink lychee wine.
According to CNN, while the Yulin meat festival has been hailed as a Chinese tradition, in fact it only started in 2009, although the country does have a long history of consuming dog meat, as centuries ago it was even considered a delicacy.
This is hardly the first year where activists attempt to halt the festival, and it hasn't worked in the past; as millions gather to stop the Yulin Dog Festival 2015, the Chinese government has remained quiet, with many locals criticizing the West's "meddling" with their culture.
