little girl finds her missing dog - roasted and ready for sale as someone’s dinner

little girl finds her missing dog - roasted and ready for sale as someone’s dinner

Mangalore Today News Network

April 01, 2015: The five year old sobs as she recognises her beloved pet ready to be sold for food.

Heartbreaking: Little girl finds roasted dog at food market

The tears of a child over her lost pet are hard to look at.

But the story is more gutwrenching as it becomes clear this girl found her pet roasted and ready for sale at a local meat vendor.

The photographs showing the young girl crying have gone viral on Vietnamese social media, after she allegedly spotted her family’s dog on sale at a local meat vendor after it had gone missing for several days.


Traumatised: The small girl crying next to what is thought to be her roasted dog

The unnamed girl, thought to be about five years old and from a village in northern Vietnam, spotted the dog for sale, after it had been slaughtered, roasted, and placed in a flat basket.

Her tragic response has brought back long-running discussion on social media in Vietnam, as well as in neighbouring China, about the ethics of eating dogs.

Stories about strays or other dogs taken from the street and sold in unhygienic conditions to the public are common with a growing number of clashes between people looking for dogs to cook and sell ending up in clashes with dog owners.



Cages: Stray dogs are kept captive for diners to choose which one they would like to eat

Eating dog meat is not illegal in China, and there is an annual dog eating festival in the Chinese city of Yulin, with an estimated 10,000 dogs slaughtered at the summer solstice event every year.

In response to international outrage China said it was clamping down on the illegal street dog meat sellers, forcing it instead into authorised premises.

They want the dogs to come from authorised traders and not be harvested off the street where they may have diseases that could pose a risk to human health and subsequently be butchered in unhygienic conditions.

Arrest: Chinese police found unauthorised dog meat sellers with stalls containing cages of stray dogs that customers were invited to choose from

Only recently a raid happened in the Shunyi District of China’s capital Beijing where customers were given the chance to pick their dog from a cage before it was slaughtered and screened in front of them.

 

Courtesy: London mirror