Animal rights groups are preparing to save dozens of dogs from a brutal festival in China where animals are tortured before being eaten because it is thought that doing so can improve a man’s sex life.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dogs are picked up and transported to southern China’s Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival.
Activists Fight to End Brutal Yulin Dog Meat Festival
Nobody is aware of how terrible it is. Animal rights activist from Los Angeles and frequent visitor to China Bobi Leonard told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview, “I’ve been there.”
Leonard, a skin care specialist who gives 20% of her earnings to animal charities, continued, “There are a lot of individuals there who are against it.” “They are advocates who battle hard.”
Although dog eating has been practiced for centuries in China and other parts of Asia, owners of rescued canines say what takes on in Yulin every year is genuinely awful.
Sheena Gao, a board member of the Animals Hope and Wellness Foundation, which operates shelters in both China and Los Angeles, described how the dogs are tortured in the most heinous ways before being killed in the mistaken belief that the increased adrenaline released as a result of the suffering enhances the quality of the meat.
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Unmasking the Horrors
Festival goers also think that this enhanced meat improves male sexual performance, prevents illness, and brings luck.
The dogs are boiled alive, skinned alive, clubbed, and burnt. “It’s just horrible,” declared Gao, who organized a fundraiser on June 11 at the Rafi Lounge in Malibu, organized by the organizations Yoga Stops Yulin and In Defense of Animals.
According to Gao, thousands of dogs—both stray and household pets—are stolen from homes or taken off the streets before being crowded into tiny wire cages and shipped across China to Yulin in time for the festival.
When they do arrive, the dogs and cats in these vehicles have been without food or water for days, according to Gao.
The horrible Yulin Dog Meat Festival must end, according to the organization’s stated mission.
Susan Praver wants to change the fact that many people in China, much alone in America, are still uninformed of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.
Chinglee, a 7-year-old part-Samoyed, part-American Eskimo, was adopted by Praver in 2017 after she heard about dog rescue in China online.
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