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Please sign this petition and send a letter of protest against the horrific cruelty of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival to the Chinese Embassy in the U.S.

Suggested message:

China’s rich cultural and traditional history spans thousands of years and now China is fast becoming a recognized and dominating super economic power, with its citizens enjoying a high standard of living as the result of economic and social progress.

However, with great success comes great responsibility, and as a global citizen, I am truly shocked and appalled to learn about the cruelty and suffering currently being inflicted upon the helpless companion animals, namely dogs and cats, of Yulin, killed during the annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival. This medieval way of treating animals sits at complete odds with how China has progressed as a society in recent years. This is not about cultural differences this is about the most basic of ethics and about treating animals with compassion. It’s plain to see that the practices carried out at Yulin represent a new low for China. Those animals we choose to be our working companions, our eyes when we are blind, our guardians of the family home, to share our food and to be our best friends for hundreds of years are suffering and are being slaughtered in the most monstrous of ways. There are many videos on YouTube to evidence this, although they are not easy to watch. Despite how you feel about eating any animal, no living, sentient being should be abused or tortured for any reason, and no right-minded person can rationally argue otherwise. Dogs and cats suffer unspeakable horrors at the hands of farmers, traders and butchers – beaten, torched with fire, boiled alive, etc. Not all these animals are “farmed” – many are beloved, stolen pets.

The medieval treatment of companion animals in Yulin provides a cruel contrast to the slick, sophisticated, modern image that China tries so hard to portray to the outside world.

Until Yulin and the Chinese government officials begin to legitimately and aggressively police, enact and enforce the companion animal protection laws as a first step in ending this shameful industry, I will be protesting for the tens of thousands of suffering, neglected and abused companion animals living lives of utter misery and pain unto death throughout Yulin and other cities that supply these animals to Yulin.

Ambassador Cui Tiankai
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America
3505 International Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008 USA

Click HERE to learn more and take action.

Pohang (Gyeongsangbuk Province, Korea) has three Sister/Friendship Cities in the US: Gwinnett County, Georgia, Long Beach and Pittsburgh, California. Please take action urging these cities to speak out against the cruelty and indifference of Pohang. Sisters don’t allow sisters to mistreat and kill companion animals.

Friendship City Campaign – Pohang, South Korea –Gwinnett County, Georgia

Sister City Campaign – Pohang, South Korea –Long Beach, California

Sister City Campaign – Pohang, South Korea –Pittsburg, California