Post by freediver on Jun 20th, 2015 at 5:52pm
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Business is booming at the Yulin No.1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant: Cats and canines crammed into cages ready for slaughter days ahead of meat festival that's outraged the world
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Hundreds of cats and dogs brought to Yulin ahead of festival on Sunday
Slaughterers hit them over the head, cut their throats open, then boil them
Local authorities in China promised the cruel market had been abolished
But local animal charity worker told MailOnline: 'Business is getting better'
'Business is getting better' at the notorious Yulin meat festival where slaughterhouses are already killing and serving up hundreds of stolen pets ahead of the official launch on Sunday, MailOnline has learned.
Local authorities said it had been abolished following global outrage, but animal protection charities who are working tirelessly to expose the cruel market say the festival will go ahead as planned.
Shocking images taken only this morning show how a new batch of cats and dogs - inhumanely stuffed into wire cages - has been brought into the city.
And queues already stretch outside huge 300-seat eateries such as the Yulin No. 1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant which sells the newly-slaughtered animals to hungry customers for around £2 for half a kilogram.
Others photographs show how the bloodied bodies of dead dogs are piled up on the streets outside dirty slaughterhouses before they are sold.
Some animals die on the long truck journeys from every corner of China and many suffer such horrendous injuries that they cannot stand in the filthy pens they are transferred to.
Those who do survive are clubbed over the head and have their throats cut open before they are thrown into boiling water.
'The butcher then plucks all the hair, removes all the organs and puts the dog on the grill,' according to the Secretary General of the Vshine Small Animal Protection Association who took the horrendous images just today.
Xing Hai added: 'You tell the chef how you want it to be cooked, they will do it... There are many ways to cook dog meat just as one would cook pork in China. For example, braised dog meat in soy sauce, dog casseroles, deep-fried crispy dogs.
'There are three to four big dog meat restaurants in Yulin such as the one called Yulin No. 1 Crispy Dog Meat and each of these restaurants can seat 200 to 300 customers.'
'I came to Yulin last year to campaign against the festival, I feel this year the business is getting better... I just came out from the local food market and there were queues outside of dog meat restaurants.'
HSI has discovered the slaughterhouse workers have been told to only kill animals under the cover of darkness and restaurants were told to remove the words 'dog meat' from their menus in an attempt to cover up the festival's existence.
At the Yulin No.1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant they have even covered up the Chinese character for dog.
The locals eat dogs all year round but there is a massive surge in tourism and demand for dog meat when people celebrate the Summer Solstice at the annual festival.
Yulin's authorities are 'very nervous' and have issued warnings to meat sellers to be ready for the protesters from all over the world to descend on the city as the festival's date approaches, said Humane Society Intentional (HSI) who shared these heartbreaking images with MailOnline
It claims the local government could be violating China's national policy by allowing the cruel festival to continue.
It is legal to eat dogs in China and the country has no law protecting the welfare of pets but its Ministry of Agriculture has strict rules which require every cat and dog to have an 'inspection certificates' before they are transported.
Because most of these animals are stolen pets or strays grabbed off the street, dog meat traders do not have the right paperwork or produce 'fraudulent documents' instead, HSI claims.
Some slaughterhouse owners admitted they did not have 'quarantine certificates' and local health inspectors never visit to check out the animals - many of whom look visibly sick.
Business is booming at the Yulin No.1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant: Cats and canines crammed into cages ready for slaughter days ahead of meat festival that's outraged the world
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
Hundreds of cats and dogs brought to Yulin ahead of festival on Sunday
Slaughterers hit them over the head, cut their throats open, then boil them
Local authorities in China promised the cruel market had been abolished
But local animal charity worker told MailOnline: 'Business is getting better'
'Business is getting better' at the notorious Yulin meat festival where slaughterhouses are already killing and serving up hundreds of stolen pets ahead of the official launch on Sunday, MailOnline has learned.
Local authorities said it had been abolished following global outrage, but animal protection charities who are working tirelessly to expose the cruel market say the festival will go ahead as planned.
Shocking images taken only this morning show how a new batch of cats and dogs - inhumanely stuffed into wire cages - has been brought into the city.
And queues already stretch outside huge 300-seat eateries such as the Yulin No. 1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant which sells the newly-slaughtered animals to hungry customers for around £2 for half a kilogram.
Others photographs show how the bloodied bodies of dead dogs are piled up on the streets outside dirty slaughterhouses before they are sold.
Some animals die on the long truck journeys from every corner of China and many suffer such horrendous injuries that they cannot stand in the filthy pens they are transferred to.
Those who do survive are clubbed over the head and have their throats cut open before they are thrown into boiling water.
'The butcher then plucks all the hair, removes all the organs and puts the dog on the grill,' according to the Secretary General of the Vshine Small Animal Protection Association who took the horrendous images just today.
Xing Hai added: 'You tell the chef how you want it to be cooked, they will do it... There are many ways to cook dog meat just as one would cook pork in China. For example, braised dog meat in soy sauce, dog casseroles, deep-fried crispy dogs.
'There are three to four big dog meat restaurants in Yulin such as the one called Yulin No. 1 Crispy Dog Meat and each of these restaurants can seat 200 to 300 customers.'
'I came to Yulin last year to campaign against the festival, I feel this year the business is getting better... I just came out from the local food market and there were queues outside of dog meat restaurants.'
HSI has discovered the slaughterhouse workers have been told to only kill animals under the cover of darkness and restaurants were told to remove the words 'dog meat' from their menus in an attempt to cover up the festival's existence.
At the Yulin No.1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant they have even covered up the Chinese character for dog.
The locals eat dogs all year round but there is a massive surge in tourism and demand for dog meat when people celebrate the Summer Solstice at the annual festival.
Yulin's authorities are 'very nervous' and have issued warnings to meat sellers to be ready for the protesters from all over the world to descend on the city as the festival's date approaches, said Humane Society Intentional (HSI) who shared these heartbreaking images with MailOnline
It claims the local government could be violating China's national policy by allowing the cruel festival to continue.
It is legal to eat dogs in China and the country has no law protecting the welfare of pets but its Ministry of Agriculture has strict rules which require every cat and dog to have an 'inspection certificates' before they are transported.
Because most of these animals are stolen pets or strays grabbed off the street, dog meat traders do not have the right paperwork or produce 'fraudulent documents' instead, HSI claims.
Some slaughterhouse owners admitted they did not have 'quarantine certificates' and local health inspectors never visit to check out the animals - many of whom look visibly sick.
