If it's Zhejuang Province in China it's not dog.
Seems a 600 year old festival of slaughtering and serving up mouth watering BBQ'd dogs has been cancelled after outrage and protests from tens of thousands of animal activists forced the community to rethink their annual three day festival scheduled for Oct 18.
In past years, the Shanghai Daily news reports 5,000 to 10,000 dogs would be butchered on the streets and served to the people living in Hutou, a village near Jinhua City. This year a campaign to boycott the festival was started by animal rights activists online and after their message went viral, authorities stepped in to halt the festival, described as "Doomsday For Dogs".
It's a small step, and quite frankly in our time so far in Shanghai we have yet to pass by a butcher store selling dog (not that we would know what it looks like) so here's a high five for the people who managed to stop this grusome tradition.
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