Thousands Of Dogs, Cats Slaughtered During Annual Chinese Festival(Photos)

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Thousands of cats and dogs have been killed, burned and skinned alive at the annual Chinese Yulin festival – in spite of the government’s pledges to put a stop to the practice regarded across the globe as barbaric and outrageous.
The festival saw hundreds of meat traders come to the country’s southern Guangxi province to celebrate the summer solstice.
Queues were stretching outside 300-seat eateries such as the Yulin No. 1 Crispy Dog Meat restaurant, which sells the newly slaughtered animals for $6 a kilogram, The Independent reported. Hundreds of people have come against this, about 500,000 people signed a petition to end the festival, and hundreds of thousands of tweets were posted with the #StopYulin2015 hashtag.
On Sunday, protesters blocked the streets, raided slaughterhouses, and bought the animals set to be slaughtered. Graphic Photo Please Viewer Discretion.

One of the demonstrators, Peter Li from the Humane Society China group, told The Telegraph that he witnessed that traders “were blow-torching the carcasses to make them shiny and ready for shipment to restaurants”.
"There were some dogs still alive in wire cages, but they looked exhausted, emaciated and dirty,” he added.
This picture taken on June 17, 2015 shows a woman selling dogs and cats by a street in Yulin, in southern China's Guangxi province. People from Yulin traditionally celebrate the solstice during midsummer on the longest day of the year by eating dog meat and lychee fruit, which draws criticism from animal rights activists.

This picture taken on June 17, 2015 shows a woman selling dogs and cats by a street in Yulin, in southern China's Guangxi province. People from Yulin traditionally celebrate the solstice during midsummer on the longest day of the year by eating dog meat and lychee fruit, which draws criticism from animal rights activists.

Another protester, 65-year-old Chinese woman Yang Xiaoyun, paid about $1100 to save 100 dogs.
Last year, the local authorities promised to prohibit the event and the use of words “dog meat”.
Killing cats and dogs isn’t against the law in China, but the majority of animals are strays, so the authorities have repeatedly warned the population about potential health risks.