China’s Dog Meat Festival May Have to Cancel the Dog, Activists Say<br />By AMY QINMAY 18, 2017<br />BEIJING — Animal rights advocates are reporting a victory in their fight against an annual dog meat festival in China, saying<br />that officials in the southern city of Yulin had agreed to ban the sale of dog meat in the week before the event.<br />The Humane Society International and the Duo Duo Project, an animal advocacy group based in California, announced<br />news of the ban on Thursday, citing reports from Chinese animal rights advocates and dog meat traders in Yulin.<br />" — Yulin’s main market for the meat — "and they all said the same thing: a seven-day ban on dog meat sales starting on June 15." It remains to be seen to what extent a ban will be enforced.<br />that But my source spoke with every single one of the dog meat vendors at Dongkou<br />But this ban suggests that the government is becoming more serious about taking action in a determined way." Animal<br />rights supporters were calling it a "milestone victory" in the campaign to end the consumption of dogs in China.<br />The ban is the latest development in what has become a highly charged standoff<br />between animal welfare advocates and residents and dog meat vendors in Yulin.
