{"id":29409,"date":"2011-07-15T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:45:55","slug":"4409-a-dog-fight-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/food\/4409-a-dog-fight-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A dog fight in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cApril 15th Incident\u201d &#8212; when a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/04\/19\/MN9U1J3J9R.DTL\">animal-lovers halted and rescued a truck-load of dogs<\/a> bound for slaughter &#8212; has brought the debate to the boil in China and exposed a lack of legislation regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dog_meat#China_mainland\">dog meat<\/a> and animal abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Animal-protection volunteers used their micro-blogs to gather a crowd of 300 supporters and &#8212; at the Zhangjiawan toll booth on the Beijing-to-Harbin expressway &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that saving those 500 dogs will arouse the consciences of five million people,\u201d said one volunteer, known by her online name Dabaoma, on Dragon TV\u2019s chat show \u201cDragon Studio\u201d. Clutching a microphone, she choked up as she described the dogs\u2019 plight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedogfiles.com\/2011\/04\/20\/an-extraordinary-stand-against-the-slaughtering-of-dogs-for-meat-in-china\/\">Video recorded at the rescue scene<\/a> showed the truck packed with dogs, all dehydrated and suffering breathing difficulties. Pups born during the journey had been crushed underfoot. Later checks determined that many of the dogs were seriously ill. Some died during the stand-off. On the television programme, Dabaoma criticised the driver, Hao Xiaomao, who also was in the TV studio, as having no conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think dogs are more important than people,\u201d Hao declared. Aged 31 and from a poor family, he started working in the dog trade in 2006. He complains that the incident lost him 20,000 yuan (about US$3,000) \u2013 equivalent to a year\u2019s school fees for two children. And since the incident, no one has been willing to let him transport dogs. He thinks his legal rights have been infringed upon. His personal details were made public, and he was hounded by insulting and threatening text messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHao Xiaomao wanted RMB 128,000 [nearly US$20,000], but we didn\u2019t give that much,\u201d said Wang Yunjie of the Shangshan Animal Charity. \u201cWe wanted him to suffer a little. If we gave it all to him, it\u2019d encourage him to do such evil things again.\u201d She says the dogs had been mistreated.<\/p>\n<p>But when Hao Xiaomao\u2019s friends asked what she meant by mistreated, Wang did not explain. Currently China has no law on the mistreatment of animals. At the start of the year a draft law was made available for public comment and debate, but so far no regulations have come into effect.<\/p>\n<p>In China some people think keeping dogs is a lifestyle choice for the rich. Internet user Poppy0 wrote: \u201cThose speaking up for the dogs are all rich city wives who don\u2019t understand rural hardship.\u201d Little Tiger Xu said: \u201cRMB 100,000 to buy the dogs, who knows how much to look after them. Wouldn\u2019t it be better to use that money to help the poor \u2013 and the more you helped, the fewer people would be smuggling dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Views of dogs in Chinese culture are contradictory. Dog-lovers see the animals as loyal and understanding companions, but dogs are often viewed with contempt.<\/p>\n<p>In Chinese villages, dogs often are eaten at festivals, weddings and funerals, particularly in the north-east. When his truck was intercepted in April, Hao was taking his truck north-east, bound for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jilin\">Jilin<\/a> province.<\/p>\n<p>Fan Xiantao runs a dog-meat factory. His family have been in the trade since the Han dynasty \u2013 for 77 generations. Fan sees dog meat as having a history and a culture. Speaking on the Dragon TV show, he explained that \u201cwe kill over 100,000 dogs a year, producing 500 tonnes of meat. We sell to Russia, Japan, Korea and Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His plant is in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pei_County\">Pei county<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiangsu\">Jiangsu<\/a> province \u2013 China\u2019s \u201chome of dog meat\u201d. According to Fan, the province has applied to have dog-meat products recognised as an intangible heritage and is awaiting state approval. About 100,000 people there are involved in the dog trade, and sales approach one billion yuan (some US$155 million) annually.<\/p>\n<p>Fan classifies the animals as either police dogs, meat dogs or pets, and he doesn\u2019t see any need for conflict with the animal-lovers: \u201cYou keep your pets, I kill my meat.\u201d But shoes were thrown when one member of the audience accepted a gift of dog meat from Fan.<\/p>\n<p>Some ask why animal lovers treat various animals differently. Why do many object to the eating of dogs, but not of chickens, pigs and cows?<\/p>\n<p>There also was criticism that barricading trucks on a highway is dangerous. Yan Yan, a lawyer, said that protecting animals should not mean putting yourself, others or general public safety at risk. Many opponents of the method say it is too radical and gives no thought to possible consequences.<\/p>\n<p>But writer Chen Lan believes that the volunteers didn\u2019t break the law, also \u201crescued\u201d Hao Xiaomao and prevented the dogs from ending up on dinner tables.<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, a legal working-group set up by Shangshan published the results of an investigation: the quarantine certificates for the dogs, listing them as being \u201cfor slaughter\u201d, had been illegally issued. Beijing Animal Hospital tested 40 of the animals for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabies\">rabies<\/a> antibodies and found that none of them had been immunised. Further investigation found that Hu Genjun, who was named as both administering the immunisations and issuing the certificates, was not legally qualified to do so.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference two months after the truck was stopped, the focus was no longer on the animals themselves, but on food safety.<\/p>\n<p>The working group pointed out that the \u201cJilin Five-Star\u201d brand of immunisation said to have been used is not suitable for dogs that will become meat. While regulations state that dogs not immunised against rabies cannot be sold on the market, there is no immunisation suitable for meat dogs. Also, most of the dogs were suffering serious illnesses already.<\/p>\n<p>Their investigation reveals the grey area in which the dog-meat supply chain exists, the group said. Eating dog meat is not illegal in China, but there are no health standards for meat dogs, nor for non-farmed animals \u2013 so there are no safety guarantees for any dog meat on sale.<\/p>\n<p>The animal lovers noted that there was no record of the dogs being sourced legally, and it was unclear where they had come from. Some were pet breeds, and some may have been stolen; dog-theft is common. In November 2010, the <em>Yangtze Evening Times<\/em> exposed trade in stolen dogs. One trader told an undercover reporter that \u201cI\u2019ve lost count of how many dogs I\u2019ve sold, but 99% of them were poisoned and stolen.\u201d The report also said that health- and quality-supervision authorities all stated that dog meat was not under their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kinds of safety risks are, from a scientific angle, very worrying,\u201d said Cai Chunhong, a lawyer with the legal group.<\/p>\n<p>The group is currently reporting the illegal immunisations and certifications to the authorities \u2013 including the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce. Hao Xiaomao is also to sue Shangshan to prove that he is not at fault.<br \/>\n<em>Meng Si is associate editor in <\/em>chinadialogue<em>\u2019s Beijing office. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think about the dog rescue? Should dogs and other animals in China be legally protected from mistreatment? Should dog meat be eaten and, if so, what health standards should be applied to meat from non-farm animals? Is killing a dog for food much different from killing a pig or chicken? Let us know your views.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homepage image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jwbonez\/2439506350\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jwalton4th<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a culture in which views of canines can be contradictory, animal-protection activists\u2019 recent rescue of over 500 dogs bound for slaughter has ignited controversy. 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