CHINA could finally ban the eating of dog meat ahead of the barbaric Yulin Festival.
A spokesperson said: “With the progress of the times, humans' understanding of civilisation and dining habits have changed constantly.
“Some traditional customs about dogs will change too.”
The move could save millions of dogs a year in China.
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“The announcement presents cities across China with the perfect opportunity to act upon the government’s words by protecting dogs and cats from the meat trade thieves and slaughterhouses.
“In just a few weeks’ time, the dog slaughterhouses of Yulin city will fill up with terrified dogs awaiting brutal slaughter for its infamous festival.READ MORE: China fury: Why bat trade STILL poses huge threat
“They will be precisely the much loved companions and helper dogs referred to in the national government’s statement as being not for food.
“The Yulin festival is a bloody spectacle that does not reflect the mood or eating habits of the majority of the Chinese people, and its continuation flouts the sentiment expressed by the Ministry of Agriculture.DON'T MISSChina told to permanently ban bat trade to prevent next pandemic [INSIGHT]China: How pangolins are ‘force-fed rice to increase price’ [VIDEO]Coronavirus warning: China’s wildlife trade ban 'must be permanent' [ANALYSIS]
“As the Ministry observed, attitudes and appetites about dogs have changed and so now it is time for Yulin’s dog slaughterhouses to lay down the butcher’s knife, and consign the festival to the history books.”
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It comes after China brought in a temporary ban on the wildlife trade in February in response to the coronavirus crisis.
And in April two Chinese cities - Zhuhai and Shenzhen - announced bans on the eating of dogs and cats.An estimated 30 million dogs a year are killed for Asia’s dog meat trade, including 10 million in China.Trending
The move to ban dog meat comes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 outbreak is widely thought to have started at a wet market, where live and dead animals are sold for eating, in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December.It is believed to have made the jump from animals - possibly bats - to humans.
Millions of people around the world have been infected with the virus and hundreds of thousands have died.