CONTENT WARNING - This thread contains references to animal cruelty **Title edited by MNHQ** To think the Daily Mail has hit a disgusting new low!!

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Just been on the online version (I know, my own fault!), there was a story with a picture of a dog being barbequed alive on the newsfeed! wtaf?? I just can't un see it, thank God I didn't click on it, the image was enough, I can't fathom how anyone can photograph it and not do anything, and then for a paper to publish it words fail me, just bloody horrific and wrong, I've got palpitations now, total bastards

And while you're all thinking about holidays , maybe consider avoiding Egypt ? Those Channel 5 adverts with the donkey staggering under a huge weight of bricks with harness sores you can put your fist in...........are real.

I have never witnessed such hideous mistreatment of a noble working animal as I witnessed in Egypt . That is one country that won't see my money (apart from donations to Brooke Animal Hospital who do sterling work)

The dog meat trade is abhorrent . They torture these animals to make the meat tasty apparently .

China doesn’t care about animals at all. Utterly barbaric and unlikely to change.

I mean there does need to be awareness of the trade. If it’s hard to look at imagine the suffering ?

I’ve been veggie since 1982.

Fucking hell @CelebrityDave how to turn a thread into racist rant 🙄

Urgh, the irony in this post. You are all a bunch of absolute meat eating hypocrites

I don't eat meat.
I also see no real practical difference in eating a cow, chicken or dog. I find them all abhorrent. YVMV.
It's the fucking torture thats the problem, not the meat.

TBH whenever there's a thread about any form of meat consumption, someone will pipe up with the very unoriginal "I take it you are vegetarian/vegan"

So unless you are vegetarian/vegan you have no right to show any concern or disgust at the practices of slaughter. ? ?

Do I have a higher set empathy filter because I am vegetarian? (Answer is No)
What goes on in an abbatoir is worlds away from what is going on in the Dog Meat Trade .

I don't tend to discuss my diet IRL (obviously if I go out to eat then people will see ) but they feel the need to ask "Why are you vegetarian? Why aren't you vegan? " ( I eat minimal dairy and very few eggs in food)
But I don't owe anyone an explanation.

Or "Oh , I bet you'd love this bacon. Mmm bacon"

Oh , yes , hold me back. I'll vault the table in a minute .
What is stopping me is me .
Not Veganuary.
Not fashion
Not allergies
Not God

Me .I'd sooner eat my spleen that your bacon sarnie thanks .

Poor dog

Most Chinese people don’t eat exotic animals and are just as horrified by the practice as you are.

Those that consume dog/mice etc - consider the economic implications. Perhaps they cannot afford more expensive types of meat? Maybe they have grown up in poverty, learning to utilise whatever is available to feed a family?

Don’t make this racist.

Those that consume dog/mice etc - consider the economic implications. Perhaps they cannot afford more expensive types of meat?

I've been rob-the-lecky-meter poor as a student but never felt the need to eat a dog !

The video of the mouse eating wasn't in a gutter either

@TheClaws please explain how the economic reasons justify cooking your food alive. I'll wait.
In practice I don't actually feel that eating a dog or a mouse or a horse is worse than a cow, sheep or chicken. What is fucking abhorrent is taking pleasure in battering an animal slowly to death in the name of your shitty festival, cutting up live seafood as entertainment in a restaurant or barbecuing dogs alive.
But if you're poor it's okay. Cool.

@marchez could you clarify - is it an entirely faked image then? I really hope so, it would be a relief to hear that (although I know equally abhorrent things go on).

Many years ago when I was quite young, I watched a programme about a huge annual food festival somewhere in China, the things they did to a whole array of animals from both land and sea was horrifying to my young eyes and those images have been burnt into my mind forever, it was pure evil behaviour and totally unnecessary. I will never ever want to visit China because of their ideals on this kind of thing and I support the charities trying to change this awful practice.
BUT China is a huge country with over 1 billion people, surely they don’t all agree with this barbaric behaviour, my daughter is always showing me cute clips on social media of Chinese people playing with their puppies, dogs and kittens, I hope to GOD these people will happily have a dog as a beloved pet then chomp on a tortured poor dog for their dinner?

The Australian PETA one was a stunt, the DM one was real, sadly.

@marchez I wish it was misreported... Having looked at the PETA article, it shows a fake dog lying 'dead' on a bbq. It's pretty graphic, but doesn't show the dog in pain. I don't want to look up the other image described, but from the sound of things it's a different picture

Unfortunately the Sydney stunt is not the same. Don’t google the image I can assure you it’s very different.

I'm seriously hoping the disruption to China and, hopefully a huge loss of money with this corona virus, will make them regulate and do away with the live animal markets and practices that allow viruses to jump species and cause epidemics.

A friend showed me a video of a wet market in China, that had been posted on LiveLeak. He said that it was one of the worst things to see, but it was important I see it. It was more horrific than I could have imagined and I would not advise anyone to watch.

I am not a vegetarian and neither is my friend, but after watching that video, I reduced my meat intake by about 50% and I check every bit of packaging in the supermarket. I refuse to buy anything at all from China and any meat I buy has to be organic and cruelty free. (Yes, I know some will say killing the animal is not cruelty free, but as I don’t intend to stop eating meat completely, I’m just trying to do what I can).

I think that some of the practices of how we treat animals and not just in China, are just criminal.

Imo people eat meat as a general food source. (not me as vegi), but practices in China are for far fetched reasons.. Virility, status, and whatever else they use to justify it...
Barbaric no question imo..
AFAIK nobody eats a live chicken on a Sunday with their carrots.

How is this The Mail's fault? They don't condone the torturing of animals. China and many Chinese practices utterly disgust me.

How is this the Daily Mail’s daily? I’ve seen the same story and pictures on two other websites.