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Dog Eating Festival Cancelled! There was a time when you couldn’t have a dog as a pet, but now dogs are growing as pets. The event in Qianxi Township, China existed for 600 years and for the first time, it’s cancelled. They used to skin the dogs in the streets! It seems like social networking launched the outcry and the government responded. (Xinhuanet - dog)
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It’s a sad day for the dog meat fans in Korea. The festival is cancelled. There’s more to the festival that the fantastic idea of dog eating. There’s cosmetics and more that use dog product. “… there are about 600 farms raising dogs for meat in South Korea, where their meat has long been eaten and dog soup, or Boshintang, is a summer delicacy.” Either way, dog fans around the world would make this the butt of jokes for decades more. It’s not like there’s enough dog eating jokes, and a festival that glorifies the wonders of eating the brothers of our best friends, just won’t fly. (Google hosted news – Dogtown)
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