{"id":12996,"date":"2011-01-27T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12996\/action-alertswiss-magazine-recommends-eating-dog-meat\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:30:02","slug":"action-alertswiss-magazine-recommends-eating-dog-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12996\/action-alertswiss-magazine-recommends-eating-dog-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert:Swiss Magazine Recommends Eating Dog Meat !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action Alert:Swiss Magazine Recommends Eating Dog Meat !!!Posted By:
AfSD\u2122(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS-and all living creatures\u2122)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Action Alert:Swiss Magazine \u201cCity Weekend\u201d Recommends Eating Chinese Dog Meat Before It Becomes Outlawed<\/b><\/h2>\n


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BY CHRIS, ON OCTOBER 27TH, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>These are puppies who were rescued by a Chinese friend yesterday from a roadside in Beijing:<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>And
\n this is a racist magazine cover story by a Swiss magazine \u201cCity Weekend
\n \u2013 Beijing\u201d telling its expat readers that now is \u201cthe perfect time\u201d to
\neat dog meat, and also strongly implies that only \u201cWesterners\u201d abhor the
\n idea of eating dog meat.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Swiss-owned magazine \u201cCity
\nWeekend\u201d (Oct 28 edition)  says it\u2019s the \u201cperfect time\u201d to eat dogs \u2013
\nbefore such a thing is outlawed \u2013 and tells us that \u201cWesterners\u201d abhor
\nthe of idea of eating dogs, implying that Chinese people don\u2019t.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Next
\n time City Weekend decides to promote a rush to eat dog meat before it\u2019s
\n outlawed, I strongly suggest they first visit a dog meat farm first and
\n then decide whether they want to promote it and associate their
\n\u201cWestern\u201d-owned brand with this particular form of animal exploitation.<\/b><\/p>\n

With
\n so few species of nonhuman animals protected from our brutality, you
\nwould think rich media companies like Ringierand their magazine City
\nWeekend would give \u201cman\u2019s best friend\u201d a break.<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>SAMPLE LETTER :<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>To:<\/b> sienna@ringierasia.com , nina.lyner@ringier.ch<\/p>\n

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Dear Ringier and City Weekend, <\/b><\/p>\n

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Please see the short post on Vegan Social Club about your magazine City Weekend’s promotion of the dog meat industry. http:\/\/www.vegansocialclub.com\/?p=51<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Your
\n magazine’s continued promotion of animal exploitation in China and your
\n writers’ tongue-in-cheek partaking in forms of animal exploitation like
\n eating dog meat — as if it were a form of tourism — is
\nreprehensible. <\/b><\/p>\n

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But even if you care nothing about the
\nfear and terror of dogs facing their end in dog meat farms, surely your
\ncompany gives a crap about racism, which your writer promotes in the
\nvery same article. <\/b><\/p>\n

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A Swiss magazine sends its staff to
\neat dog meat, then writes about how tasty it was, encourages other
\nexpats to try it before it’s outlawed (clearly indicating your writers’
\nand editors’ awareness that Chinese society frowns on the practice so
\nmuch, it has been trying to outlaw it), but makes the case that most
\n“Westerners” somehow abhor this more than most Chinese do. <\/b><\/p>\n