LITTLE MUSINGS ABOUT YULIN FESTIVAL
Meat-eating is still a common grotesque, cruel and unacceptable human habit.
In livestock farming, the butchering is just the culmination of a production process of living beings that deprived of the dimension of life. These animals are stripped of the possibility to express themselves and rejoice. Each of them, bred in captivity for alimentary and commercial purposes, is deprived of its affections, whether it is a mother or its baby. Animals are raised in conditions that conflict with their ethological needs, often forced to live in terrible sanitary conditions. They can’t establish social ties or relate with their own kind. They are denied everything.
It is not always easy to think about this. It is much easier to believe in the rhetoric of animal welfare in breeding farms – but no matter if it is not reality. However, there are moments in which the reality appears so evident: the Yulin festival is among these. As in a mirror, that reflects our deformed image, this Chinese festival during which dog meat is consumed, ignites the controversy. For those who share their life with a dog, it is too upsetting to see the images of boiled or cooked dogs. The reaction of world public opinion on this contested festival is more than appropriate. It goes without saying that it is right to fight against a celebration of this kind.
Thanks to international pressure and mobilizations, together with protest and sensitisation activities carried on by Chinese animal rights associations, there has been a decrease in the number of dogs killed in the last few years. This festival, furthermore, has made the public aware of the traditional alimentary use of dogs in many countries (Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and others).
This information is very worrying for the public and arouses great indignation. What we consider beloved, pampered and spoiled pets, are on the contrary considered food halfway across the world.
This is something unacceptable. If for you, it is unthinkable that the death penalty is handed down to dogs, TAKE AN EXTRA STEP.
Look at the other side of the world, and then look here. What is being denied to each dog in Yulin is also being denied to every living being that ends up on our plates in different areas of the world.
We should not stop reminding that what is happening in Yulin in these days is exactly the same that is happening in other parts of the world to cows, chickens, calves, rabbits.
EMPATHY AND RESPECT MUST GO BEYOND BOUNDARIES OF SPECIES.
WE CONDEMN NOT ONLY THE YULIN FESTIVAL AND DOG MEAT CONSUMPTION, BUT ALSO ALL KINDS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ALL ANIMAL SPECIES.
