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Chinese call to cancel Yulin’s dog meat festival
On the eve of the infamous annual dog meat festival in China, majority of Chinese for the first time called for an end to the gory event in which over 10,000 canines are to be slaughtered and eaten by dog meat lovers.
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As the event is set to kick off on Monday in Yulin city, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported that a majority of Chinese call for an end to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, saying it has “harmed China’s reputation” world over.
About 64 per cent of those surveyed in age group of 16 to 50, said they would support a permanent end to the infamous annual event. Yulin residents too backed the ban which link their town with the event.
About 51.7 per cent of the respondents – who included Yulin residents too – wanted the dog meat trade banned completely, while 69 per cent said they have never eaten dog meat. “The poll shows most people here don’t eat dogs,” said Qin Xiaona, director of the Capital Animal Welfare Association charity, one of a cluster of animal welfare groups that commissioned the survey.
Yulin, a small town in southwest China’s Guangxi region, has become notorious in recent years for its dog meat festival.
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