Repost from @animalrightsmovement - There has been a massive outcry from the public lately over the Yulin Dog Meat Festival taking place in China this week. The purely sadistic torture that about 40,000 dogs undergo during the festival is atrocious. I am grateful that Chinese activists are doing everything they can to end it! However, I want to address the hypocrisy that so many of us show concerning Yulin. Dogs are our best friends because we have the daily opportunity to bond with them and get to know them as sentient beings. But as someone who has had the opportunity to bond with farmed animals, I know for a fact that the animals WE eat are every bit as emotional and every bit as intelligent (some much more intelligent) than the animals "they" eat. In Yulin, dogs are sometimes boiled alive. In the U.S., chickens and turkeys are shackled upside down, and, if their throat is not slit or they do not bleed out in time on the assembly line, they are dragged through scalding hot feather-removal tanks. In Yulin, dogs are packed in tiny cages before they die. In the U.S., pigs, veal calves and egg-laying hens are confined to spaces the size of their own bodies for the entirety of their lives. In Yulin, dogs are often beaten and mocked, made into a spectacle before they are slaughtered. In the U.S., countless undercover investigations have revealed factory farm, stockyard and slaughterhouse workers tormenting, torturing, mocking and sometimes even sexually abusing animals. So, activists, please continue to battle the horrors of Yulin's dog meat festival. But don't forget that if you consume animal products, you too are fueling unimaginable atrocities happening every day behind closed doors. Regardless of how they are treated or how they are killed, the truth of the matter is that no animal- whether an intelligent and playful dog or an intelligent and playful pig, wants to die.
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