Dogs and the Chinese: to eat or not to eat...

The “April 15th Incident” -- when a group of animal-lovers halted and rescued a truck-load of dogs bound for slaughter -- has brought the debate to the boil in China and exposed a lack of legislation regarding dog meat and animal abuse.

Animal-protection volunteers used their micro-blogs to gather a crowd of 300 supporters and -- at the Zhangjiawan toll booth on the Beijing-to-Harbin expressway -- stop a truck carrying 520 dogs being transported for slaughter. Both the truck driver and the volunteers phoned the police at the same time. With no chance of an arrest after a 15-hour stand-off, the volunteers raised 115,000 yuan (roughly US$17,770) to buy the animals.

 “We hope that saving those 500 dogs will arouse the consciences of five million people,” said one volunteer, known by her online name Dabaoma, on Dragon TV’s chat show “Dragon Studio”. Clutching a microphone, she choked up as she described the dogs’ plight. More...

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