Over 90-percent of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival captives slated for slaughter in China’s Guangxi region right now were stolen from their owners, solely because the annual event has become so profitable.
The fact that the majority of those doomed canines and cats aren’t even actual strays has prompted growing outrage from animal activists worldwide seeking to stop the brutal bloodshed of man’s best friends and felines.
Using the hashtag #StopYulin2015 and its various derivatives, millions have joined forces to call attention to China’s savage and unsavory ritual slayings that occur there each year to mark the Summer Solstice, and which often involve skinning pets alive.
Social media has been a critical component in steadily reducing Yulin Dog Meat Festival attendance, but campaigns on Twitter, Facebook and Change.org have not managed to halt the mass murders completely.
Because of that, some protestors are taking matters into their own hands by approaching greedy dog butchers with cold hard cash to rescue as many caged canines and cats as money can buy -- but that too is just a drop in the bucket of blood.
The practice of eating dogs and cats is an age-old tradition in China that has dramatically dropped off in the past few decades as the country has sought acceptance from first-world nations and more of its citizens view the companion animals as family members.
Indeed, Yulin’s now-fiercely opposed *festival* isn’t even a government sanctioned happening, and many Chinese officials have issued statements condemning the horrifically cruel public killings, demanding that, in the name of decency, it be voluntarily stopped.
@EponymousRox
use hashtag #StopYulin2015
