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China has banned a dog-eating festival that dates back more than 600 years after a Chinese internet uproar over the way dogs are slaughtered, the official Xinhua news agency reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dogs are chopped up and skinned in the streets of Qianxi township in coastal Zhejiang province during the ancient festival, which is usually held in October, state-run Xinhua says.<\/p>\n

The festival marks a local military victory during the Ming dynasty, in which dogs in Qianxi were killed so they would not bark and alert the enemy.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

After the victory, dog meat was served at a celebratory feast, and since then local people have eaten dog meat at temple fairs held during traditional Chinese holidays.<\/p>\n

“The ancient fair was replaced by a modern commodity fair in the 1980s, but dog eating has been kept as a tradition,” Xinhua says.<\/p>\n

“However, vendors began to butcher dogs in public a few years ago to show their dog meat is fresh and safe<\/strong>, as a way to ease buyers’ worry that the meat may be refrigerator-preserved or even contaminated.”<\/p>\n

Thousands of Chinese internet users criticized the dog-eating festival on social networking sites, and called for the local Qianxi government to intervene. <\/p>\n

“The government’s quick response should be encouraged.<\/strong> I hope eating dogs will not be a custom there anymore. It’s not a carnival, but a massacre,” wrote an internet user named “Junchangzai” on a Chinese micro-blogging website, in a post that was “re-tweeted” 100,000 times, Xinhua says.<\/p>\n

While dog ownership was banned in China during the Cultural Revolution as a bourgeois habit, it has become increasingly popular with China’s growing middle class and one-child families, Reuters says.<\/p>\n

Way to treat man’s best friend. Glad this is banned!<\/strong>
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