Dog Meat Trade in China

WARNING this is some horrible shite and will ruin your day. I had no idea it was so wide spread and brutal.

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It is estimated that the country is responsible for killing 10million dogs for human consumption each year, with traders selling canned meat, dog sausages, roasted legs and even dog penis snack packs.

Bambi was found in the kitchen of a restaurant with her legs broken so severely that the bones had completely separated.

But owner Emily Parker - a founding member of rescue organisation, Slaughterhouse Survivors - says she’s seen a lot worse.

“Quite regularly we have dogs come to us that have already been a part of the torture or abuse before being rescued," she explains.

“We’ve had dogs such as Stark the doberman, who had his leg cut off. We had another who actually had both legs from his left side amputated.


“They’ll usually start with the legs because it doesn’t kill the dog, so it means that the adrenaline is pumping around the dog's system.

“They believe that the longer they can keep the dog alive while they’re preparing the meat, the better it will be for them.”

Blowtorched alive at dog meat festival
Every June, in the south east city of Yulin, thousands of dogs are slaughtered, butchered, cooked and eaten for the ten-day Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, where some believe the fruit and meat combination will bring health through the long winter months.

Footage from last year’s event, which showed a dog being blowtorched alive, caused outrage around the world.

But the thousands slaughtered at Yulin are just a drop in the ocean for a legal trade that sees 30million dogs slaughtered worldwide annually.

Although it’s not part of the mainstream Chinese diet, China is the world's largest dog meat market, with 97,000 tonnes produced each year. A recent pork shortage sent the price sky high and boosted sales of dog products.

Pets and strays bludgeoned to death
Despite producers claiming the meat comes from legal ‘dog meat farms’, the lucrative trade has also led to an epidemic of dog thefts from pet owners, with one study finding that 87 per cent of households in one village lost a dog in the last few years.

Gangs of dog thieves capture strays and pets, sometimes through the use of anaesthetic-tipped needles shot from blow pipes or crossbows.

Dogs are typically bludgeoned to death in front of each other, put into a de-hairing machine to remove fur, and then blowtorched for sale to markets.

“I went to many slaughterhouses where we saw collars,” says Peter Li, Associate Professor of East Asian Politics at the University of Houston-Downtown. “Some dogs even had a jacket on.

“I witnessed the dogs waiting to be slaughtered, they were trembling and huddling with each other.

"They slaughtered all the dogs in the morning but they’d left 12 dogs for the next day. All these twelve dogs stood in a pool of blood."

I witnessed the dogs waiting to be slaughtered, they were trembling and huddling with each other

Peter Li
In December 2017, Chinese police in Anhui province arrested a gang that sold nearly 200,000 poisonous syringes to dog thieves.

In the same month, a court in Fujian province sentenced a dog thief in a rural village to death for trying to shoot a dog with a poisoned dart but accidentally killing a pregnant woman.

Meanwhile, last May a gang of 16 people in Jiangsu province were sentenced to between one and six years in prison for poisoning and stealing dogs, then selling more than 40,000kg of dog meat worth 400,000 yuan (£44,000).