An illegal live animal market was raided and shut down near the Gaoliming market in Beijing. This specific market allegedly sells about ten dogs a day at about 700 RMB each.
As Beijing enters winter, demand for dog meat for hot pot restaurants is going up due to its association with warmth in traditional Chinese medicine, and these markets are getting more popular as it is hard to get good dog meat.
Eating dog is not illegal, but is becoming more and more frowned upon as Chinese people prefer to have dogs as pets.
Source: The Nanfang
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Having removed such illegal dog selling will slowly help the country go into a better place, though China is becoming better day by day and hopefully will be the first in the world soon :)
Dec 08, 2014 13:07 Report Abuse
I had some Chewhuahua the other day, it was dog-gone good...
Dec 07, 2014 19:32 Report Abuse
If God hadn't have wanted us to eat animals then he wouldn't have made them out of delicious meat. I can't imagine that dogs are delicious.
Dec 04, 2014 02:19 Report Abuse
So I guess that's also why He made humans out of delicious meat too.
Dec 05, 2014 08:28 Report Abuse
Any animals are all our friends.Thus,I am a vegetarian.
Dec 03, 2014 20:49 Report Abuse
I stopped eating pork and I'm thinking of quitting meat entirely. It can't be an easy task in China.
Dec 07, 2014 19:54 Report Abuse