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The Independent/独立报：

China 'set to ban dog meat' at notorious Yulin festival

While the majority of Chinese people don't eat dogs, the Yulin festival has become a focal point for the country's trade in canine meat. Around 10 million dogs and four million cats are slaughtered for the meat in China each year.

Tens of thousands of killings occurred in Yulin at the festival's peak, many of them strays and stolen pets, some still wearing their collars.

KaitSith

They shouldn't be tortured but there is nothing wrong with humanely farming and slaughtering them for consumption. I don't think they all torture them. I've seen them slaughter them like other livestock.

JohnnyM99999

It's easy to criticize someone else when we do the exact cruelty in our slaughter houses and farms. We hang deer heads on our walls and it's cute. By the way, if you read carefully, the majority of Chinese do not eat dogs.

Mills1991

People think meat is the only way to survive. You ever heard of Vegans/Vegetarians? Why kill an animal that has as much right to live a life as we do just to satisfy your hunger? People baffle me. They really do.

andytomlins

Why is killing cats and dogs for meat wrong but pigs who are more intelligent fine?

Ian Grace

There are those who abstain from eating any sentient beings and protest for their rights; there are viable alternatives to eating the flesh of once sentient beings.

set to do something开始认真做某事

ban 禁止

notorious 臭名昭著的

focal point 焦点；关注点

canine 犬；犬科的

slaughter 屠宰

stray 走丢的动物

collar 项圈

humane 人道的

farm 养殖；养殖场

livestock 家畜

cruelty 残忍；残忍的行为

slaughter house 屠宰场

vegan 绝对素食主义者

vegetarian 素食主义者

baffle 使…困惑

abstain from doing something 戒除做某事

sentient 有感知能力的

viable 可行的