'Cruelty and suffering exist at every part of this trade,' Peter Li, the Humane Society International's China policy expert, told Newsweek.
The event, which is also known as the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, takes place over the course of 10 days starting on June 21 in Yulin, a city in Guangxi in southern China, bordering Vietnam.According to Peter Li, the Humane Society International's China policy expert, the festival was launched in 2009/2010 by Yulin's dog meat traders purely as a commercial event in an attempt to boost their flagging dog meat sales.
"So while the international focus on one week in Yulin is helpful in that it encourages awareness and debate about this hideously cruel trade, it's important to remember that after Yulin is over, dogs and cats are still being stolen, trafficked and killed in brutal ways for the meat trade," he said."That's why we must campaign for an end to the whole trade, not just Yulin."The term"festival" is a slightly misleading term for the event, according to Li.
While the number of attendees has fallen in the past couple of years, in part, due to China's strict COVID measures, thousands of people are expected to attend this year. Once they arrive in Yulin, the animals will be sold to slaughterhouses, all of which are illegal because dogs and cats are not considered official livestock animals in China, and are not from traceable sources required by China's Food Safety Law. This means that slaughterhouses are not supposed to kill them for human consumption.
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