Activists save dogs from cooking pot

[Zephie]

BEIJING (AFP) – Hundreds of dogs being trucked to Chinese restaurants were spared a culinary fate after about 200 animal lovers mobilised to stop them ending up on dinner tables, state-run media said Monday.

A truck crammed with the dogs was forced to stop Friday on a highway in eastern Beijing by a motorist who swerved his car in front of the truck and then used his microblog to alert animal-rights activists, reports said.

The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being transported from the central Chinese province of Henan to restaurants in Jilin province in the northeast, the China Daily said. It said 430 dogs were rescued, while the Global Times put the number at 520.

Eventually, about 200 animal lovers and activists gathered around the truck in eastern Beijing and after a 15-hour standoff that jammed traffic the dogs were freed early Saturday when an animal-protection group purchased them for 115,000 yuan ($17,600), the Global Times said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/18/activists-save-dogs-from-cooking-pot/

[liberal N proud]

1. When I first read the headline, my thought was why would dogs cook pot

But it was from the cooking pot.

[undeterred]

8. There are all kinds of activism

but stopping dogs from cooking pot is pretty out there.

[roguevalley]

9. not when most of the dogs that are cooked are stolen. you have

to watch your pets. this is common practice in much of the east. I applaud them MIGHTILY!

[undeterred]

10. you missed my meaning

I was picking up on the misreading of the title... stopping dogs from cooking mj :hi:

I adore dogs, just leaving now to take mine to the vet. And yes, I applaud them too!

[Obamanaut]

12. I think they could learn to do it if they had opposable thumbs. nt

[WatsonT]

2. Stealing someones pet for food is pretty evil

Raising dogs for meat I can kind of understand, it still makes my skin crawl but it's a different culture, whatever.

But pets are pets no matter what species they are.

[costahawk1987]

3. It is pretty sick either way...

But I agree with you. To wok your own dog is one thing. For somebody else to wok it is worse.

[WatsonT]

5. Did you just use a pun?

Bad costahawk!

:spank:

[costahawk1987]

6. lol- My bad! :)

My cat kept me up all night. I get kind of goofy when I haven't slept.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I feel pretty much the same way. It is a cultural issue.

[xchrom]

7. awesome! nt

[formercia]

11. 50 ways to Wok your dog

"But, Officer, I was just taking the dogs for a ride."

[Skidmore]

13. Oh, lordy, lol.

Sorry but it cracked me up.

[Codeine]

14. . .. but did nothing about the pigs and chickens headed to the same fate. nt