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Restaurants and hotels in the Chinese capital have been asked to take dog meat off the menu during Olympics and Paralympics due to concerns that the canine dishes might be offensive to Westerners and animal rights activists.
“Gourmets with a special predilection for dog meat will be disappointed if they come to the Chinese capital in the coming two months,” a Beijing Tourism Bureau official said.
The Beijing Catering Trade Association (BETA) has issued a circular forbidding all the 112-designated restaurants from providing dog meat dishes during Olympics and strongly advised other establishments to suspend serving the canine delicacy until September.
“If a customer orders dog meat, the restaurant staff should patiently suggest another entree,” Xiong Yumei, the Bureaus Vice-Director, was quoted as saying by official Xinhua news agency. “Conflicts should be avoided.” Canine dishes are popular among the Korean community in Beijing, as also in Yunnan and Guizhou restaurants.
Apart from being a delicacy, dog meat is also believed by many Chinese to be an effective element to lower blood pressure. Some also think it boosts “sexual prowess”.
Animal rights and environmental activists claim dogs are brutally killed with clubs and knives in China’s dog meat industry.
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I’d eat dog. Just because it’s foreign doesn’t mean it’s bad. Besides, does anyone honestly believe that in the US cows and pigs are serenaded to death or something?
Good for them for realizing that hey some of us are comfortable to eating Fido. There is enough out there stuff on the menu after that is gone anyways.
i can understand why considering a lot of people have an emotional attachment to dogs (myself included). however, it is a delicacy in that country so they shouldn’t be forced to take it off of their menu. people are visiting china so they should be able to take in everything china has to offer.
Eww your not supposed to eat dogs… that is what cows and chickens are for!!! Cats are ok to eat cause no one likes cats
Actually, I find that very considerate of them to know our customs and try to accommodate and not incite people.
They cruelly kill dogs and eat them….we cruelly kill other animals and eat them. Anyone that tells you the mass production and slaughter of cows, pigs, and chickens is done humanely has fooled themselves.
Personally it’s not simply that dog meat is eaten, it’s the utterly horrific way that the dogs are treated prior to be being sold. Strung up alive or with a tin can on their muzzle.
Putting a cloak temporarily over the way the dogs are treated by removing dog meat from menus, just puts the issue out of sight for the visitors and athletes. While for the dogs, it stays the same….