Dogs rescued from Yulin Dog Meat Festival

VShine 2016

Urge China to stop Yulin’s dog and cat meat cruelty

On June 21st, the dog and cat meat trade intensifies in China’s city of Yulin, with thousands of people expected to gather at restaurants and markets across the city to eat dog and cat meat dishes. Not only is the brutality of this cruel trade inconsistent with Chinese animal protection culture, with stolen pets suffering terrible abuse, but allowing the Yulin event to go ahead also runs contrary to China’s public health and safety precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stopping the killing of dogs and cats in Yulin once and for all would protect people and animals.

Please urge China to end the animal welfare and public health nightmare of Yulin’s dog and cat meat trade.

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To: Premier Li Keqiang, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

We write to you with an urgent appeal to protect the health and welfare of China’s citizens and preserve animal welfare, by stopping the annual Yulin dog and cat meat trade event from going ahead on June 21st.

Despite being illegal, every year truckloads of dogs and cats – many of them stolen pets – are driven long distances across provincial borders without any legally required quarantine documents, to be brutally slaughtered for their meat in Yulin in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. To allow such an event to go ahead not only means that these animals will suffer enormously, but runs the risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus and other diseases such as deadly rabies, all for the sake of a dog meat trade that operates outside the law and which most people in China don’t support. 

We respectfully urge you to end the mass slaughter and consumption of dogs and cats in Yulin and across the whole of China. In April 2020, the Chinese government told the world “with the progress of human civilization and the public's concern and preference for animal protection”, dogs are our companions, not food. If Yulin’s mass dog and cat killing goes ahead, it would appear to defy that statement from China’s national government.

I stand in solidarity with the millions of people in China, across Asia, and around the world who want to see China take a leading role in ending the brutal and dangerous dog and cat meat trade.

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