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Lunar New Year: French animal lovers howl at Chinese dog slaughter
Fri Jan 27, 1:28 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - France's Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA)appealed to Chinese President Hu Jintao to put an end to the cruel slaughter of dogs, which it blasted as an affront.

"The SPA does not set itself up as a judge of a country and its culture, but is asking for animals to be killed in a dignified way," the SPA said.



"Millions of dogs (in China) are hanged, beaten with sticks and butchered while they are still alive," it said in a press release.

The organisation added that it had tried to get French media to accept an advertisement as part of its campaign against dog butchering, but the picture -- of an animal being cut to pieces in a pool of blood -- was so graphic that it had been rejected by every newspaper.

The upcoming Chinese New Year on Sunday ushers in the Year of the Dog.

Up to 10 million dogs are slaughtered every year in China, many killed slowly and cruelly to supposedly enhance the meat's flavour, according to animal rights groups.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060127/lf_afp/afplifestylechinalunar_060127182821;_ylt=AneXuqnvbXcY_CTCf0JLEssmWccF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--

[keithinkorea]

I'm not strongly against eating dog per se but the revolting practice of how the animals are cruelly beaten to death is an affront to civilisation.

A fitting punishment for anyone who commits gross acts of animal cruelty like this is a similar fate for them. Similar in that they should be only permanently crippled and disfigured but allowed to live so they can reflect on their cruelty:twisted:

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