Dog Meat Is Unethical

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Of course this idiot fails to mention that we are not hitting our turkeys in the head with a hammer, boiling them alive or peeling their skin off as they scream in agony.

It is estimated that 10,000 thousand dogs and cats are slaughtered and eaten at a 10 day long Yulin dog meat festival, and millions more are butchered each year throughout Southeast asia.

While a majority of the west finds the eating of Dogs and Cats morally reprehensible, those in the dog meat business defend their trade, arguing that it is no different than eating any other animal.

One Yulin meat market vendor shouted at animal rights protesters: “There are all sorts of cultural norms about what you can eat- you eat turkey, so why are you forcing us not to eat dog meat.”

This is a deflection argument put forth by the defenders of this barbaric practice. Most of China does not condone the dog eating ways of these Neanderthals but, they …show more content…

China has no law that is similar to the United States Humane Slaughter Act, or laws that protect animals from inhumane acts like when the Yulin butchers beat a dog to death with a stick, or throw the poor animal in a boiling pot of oil. In the United States they would be arrested, jailed and would never be able to set foot near a kitchen again.

What China lacks in protecting animals from evil they do have similar health code laws protecting their people from diseases such as rabies. If China did enforce their laws such as a 7 day quarantine period for any live stock that are to be used for consumption or their law that all "exit animals' must have proper paperwork showing where the animal originated

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