Several news outlets carried the same story yesterday about the Yulin Dog Festival and I just blew right by most of them because we have so many dog festivals in our area. One takes up the entire town of Reston and includes other pets too, but dogs are most common. But I saw parts of Tucker Carlson on Fox last night and stopped long enough to find out why he was covering it. It doesn't seem like Tucker's kind of story.
So, it turns out that the real title of this event is the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, and cruelty to animals takes on a whole new meaning when the locals there come up with novel ways of killing and eating their dogs. Really ugly stuff. The BBC and Bloomberg were aghast at the idea of this kind of festival and why it still exists, making me think they have never been to South East Asia before.
Tucker mentioned [rightly] that this is a sure sign that the Chinese are not like us, and they are not like us in a lot more ways than we recognize. I don't think the rest of the world is going to notice that they kill and eat what we call pets, but at least for one day, they have. You can bet that the censorship people will be killing that story in China, and killing any further notices on the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. They are not like us. Anything that might detract from the images they want to portray to the outside world is filtered out "for your own good". I wish they had censored that one sooner.
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