The tourist country China
China has many magnificent tourist attractions like the great wall of China, the terracotta army in Xi’an, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Li River in Guilin, the Yellow Mountains, the giant pandas in Chengdu, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Bund and Pudong in Shanghai, the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Mogao caves, the giant Buddha of Leshan and the Mount Huang.
China has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit China as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in China.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
China has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit China as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in China.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
NEWS FROM CHINA
Click HERE for more than a hundred articles in different languages about the Yulin dog meat festival 2015
1 June 2015, Daily Mail
The Yulin authorities want to give the impression that the dog meat festival 2015 has been banned, to avoid global outrage. However preparations are going on, and this year also cats will be included in the menu. Thousands of cats and dogs are now being transported to the festival site, where they are beaten to death or have their throats slit as their traumatised fellow-animals watch.
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29 April 2015, Express
In the city of Luoyang, in Henan Province, the police raided a 20 square-metre flat after complaints about the stench. Hundreds of dog parts and carcasses were sperad all over the floors of the filthy apartment. Many of the dead dogs had collars, which means that they were probably pets stolen from the streets. One room had been used for cooking dog meat while the other room was used for slaughtering the terrified dogs.
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The Yulin authorities want to give the impression that the dog meat festival 2015 has been banned, to avoid global outrage. However preparations are going on, and this year also cats will be included in the menu. Thousands of cats and dogs are now being transported to the festival site, where they are beaten to death or have their throats slit as their traumatised fellow-animals watch.
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29 April 2015, Express
In the city of Luoyang, in Henan Province, the police raided a 20 square-metre flat after complaints about the stench. Hundreds of dog parts and carcasses were sperad all over the floors of the filthy apartment. Many of the dead dogs had collars, which means that they were probably pets stolen from the streets. One room had been used for cooking dog meat while the other room was used for slaughtering the terrified dogs.
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18 December 2014, The Independent
Leather from Chinese dogs are made into gloves, belts, accessories etc. for worldwide exportation. The workers are clubbing the dogs and slitting their throats before peeling the skin off while the dogs are still alive.
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9 December 2014, CNN
100,000 African elephants have been mutilated and slaughtered in just the past three years to satisfy Chinese demand for ivory.
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7 December 2014, www.saynotodogmeat.net
China - a country where no animal welfare laws exist for companion animal, and not even the cruelest crimes get punished. The stolen pet dog has all his four legs severed and skinned while it is fully conscious.
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27 August 2014, New Republic
Photos of the dog eating festival in Yulin 2014. About 10,000 dogs are tortured, slaughtered and eaten at the dog eating festival in Yulin celebrating the summer solstice.
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8 May 2014, YouTube
During a banquet in Guizhou province, the villagers slowly and torturously kill a buffalo by chopping down its head with knives.
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Leather from Chinese dogs are made into gloves, belts, accessories etc. for worldwide exportation. The workers are clubbing the dogs and slitting their throats before peeling the skin off while the dogs are still alive.
Read article
9 December 2014, CNN
100,000 African elephants have been mutilated and slaughtered in just the past three years to satisfy Chinese demand for ivory.
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7 December 2014, www.saynotodogmeat.net
China - a country where no animal welfare laws exist for companion animal, and not even the cruelest crimes get punished. The stolen pet dog has all his four legs severed and skinned while it is fully conscious.
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27 August 2014, New Republic
Photos of the dog eating festival in Yulin 2014. About 10,000 dogs are tortured, slaughtered and eaten at the dog eating festival in Yulin celebrating the summer solstice.
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8 May 2014, YouTube
During a banquet in Guizhou province, the villagers slowly and torturously kill a buffalo by chopping down its head with knives.
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20 November 2013, Daily Mail
China produces 90% of the world’s angora fur. The rabbits are tied up and streched and the workers rip out their fur while the animals are screaming in pain. The rabbits are left in their cages bleeding. Their fur is ripped out every two months until at the age of 3-5 years when they are slaughtered and skinned.
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15 January 2013, Daily Mail
1,000 cats due to be killed for food in China discovered starving and thirsty in cramped cages when their truck crashes in a traffic accident. Up to four million cats are eaten in China each year.
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China produces 90% of the world’s angora fur. The rabbits are tied up and streched and the workers rip out their fur while the animals are screaming in pain. The rabbits are left in their cages bleeding. Their fur is ripped out every two months until at the age of 3-5 years when they are slaughtered and skinned.
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15 January 2013, Daily Mail
1,000 cats due to be killed for food in China discovered starving and thirsty in cramped cages when their truck crashes in a traffic accident. Up to four million cats are eaten in China each year.
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12 August 2011, Mail Online
Mother bear strangles her cub and thereafter kills herself by smashing her head into a wall to save them both from a horrific life of torture as bile bears.
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Mother bear strangles her cub and thereafter kills herself by smashing her head into a wall to save them both from a horrific life of torture as bile bears.
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