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Stop Yulin! (Current Petitions)
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Ongoing petitions to stop the Yulin Dog-eating festival

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-yulin-...g-festival
(no shocking pictures on the signing area)

https://www.change.org/p/mr-chen-wu-yuli...ngxi-china
(no shocking picture but playing the video is at signer's discretion)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/441...-festival/
(an upsetting picture but not gruesome)

https://action.hsi.org/ea-action/action?...n.id=38221
(sad picture but not gruesome)

http://iheartdogs.com/petition/end-the-y...-festival/
(a moving image of caged dogs plays, though it is not gruesome. Those who do not wish to watch it, scroll down the page to the signing area.)

http://www.stopdogmeat.com/
(playing the video is at the discretion of the signer.)

NEWS: Approximately 11 million people so far have signed petiitions to get Yulin stopped. This is a news report Tuesday 14 June from the Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...81521.html
While this is good news, there is also some negativity, as the Chinese embassy rejected a petition presented to them by protesters in Britain.
Warning....there are some upsetting pictures in this article.
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#2
I have signed the petitions and I shared some of them on Facebook. I will share more tomorrow. (I don't want to overwhelm people)

I am glad to see that there are so many groups who are against Yulin. The pressure is mounting. It is heartening to hear that many young people reject the festival and are protesting it.

I think eventually it will be stopped. I just hope that this is the year.


Thank-you for posting the petitions together like this.
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Catherine

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#3
I've signed all the petitions, sorry I'm not on Facebook.
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#4
Thank you for signing, Catherine and cathie. Your voices will help a lot.

11 million people (at least)....and counting.

It is good to know that many Chinese people are also supporting the closure of the Yulin festival.
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#5
I don't think there are that many in favour of Yulin. It is a local event and not everyone locally takes part. It is also not an old tradition at all. If this festival is stopped or even diminished it could be the beginning of the end for the dog meat trade.  It is inherently cruel the way the dogs are treated and I don't think the world is comfortable with such behavior any more.

There are lots of other cruel situations, but we can only focus on one at a time. People can respond to one particularly cruel situation. If we tried a campaign that showed all the cruel situations in the world, people would be overwhelmed and would lose interest. Right now Yulin is the face of animal cruelty and people will respond to what they can see.

I just hope there in enough of a push to change things for the better.
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Catherine

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#6
Yes you are right Catherine. We deal with each cruelty situation as it crops up.
Such as....the cruelty towards baby chickens, caged chickens, foie gras production, the dogs of Yulin, the factory farmed animals, the individual cruelty cases worldwide, the street dogs of Romania....etc....

We can only do what we can do at one time. But little by little if we keep going we can make changes happen.
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#7
It is all of us pushing where we can that will eventually bring about a better world.

Making sure people know about Yulin is so important right now. Anything we can do helps those who are there trying to stop this.
I am sure it helps protestors to know that there is a world of supporters out there.
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Catherine

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#8
Yes, if we care, we should keep going.

However, it seems that the Chinese government is deliberately resistant to outside influences, and annoyed that anyone should wish to interfere in "internal affairs". That was probably the reason a petition presented by protesters, was rejected by the Chinese embassy in Britain recently.
It seems they are only likely to be influenced, at this stage anyway, by pressures coming from the Chinese people.

So it might be sensible to offer support to Asian and Chinese protest groups and rescues, etc.
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#9
Quote:So it might be sensible to offer support to Asian and Chinese protest groups and rescues, etc.
That is a good point.

We do have one way of influencing the Chinese government.  Don't shop for anything that comes from a country that eats dogs.
That takes in more than China. We already don't buy things tested on animals. We just have to expand our boycott.

Economics are a powerful thing.
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Catherine

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#10
It's also wise to be very careful about leather and fur trimmed items, no matter where they are bought...in the UK or in the US etc.

These are often from China and can easily be dog skins (also cat skins) The skins aren't taken after a humane slaughter. The animals are killed in awful ways, usually by inexperienced workers or sometimes skinned alive.

The items are purposely mis-labelled. So even the buyers in the western countries may be fooled.
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