Why does Yulin eat dog meat?

Yulin Litchi Dog Meat Festival is a spontaneous folk festival and a traditional folk custom to celebrate the summer solstice. People in China have the custom of eating dog meat. Every summer solstice, generous and hospitable locals are used to getting together to eat dog meat, get together with relatives and friends to celebrate the summer solstice and drink wine with fresh litchi. Yulin city officials have never organized a dog meat festival, and the real "litchi dog meat festival" does not exist. Dog meat festival is not a simple ceremony organized by the government, but a spontaneous behavior related to local food culture.

There is a folk saying that dog meat and lychee are not hot in summer solstice, which means that as long as you eat dog meat in summer solstice, you will be healthy. Of course, this may be related to the local climate. Dog meat is hot and can be dehumidified. In recent years, people's resistance has become stronger and stronger, and many people from all walks of life, such as the national animal protection, are opposed, calling for a boycott of "Yulin killing dogs." Jiang Bin Road in Yulin City is also called Dog Street, because there are many dog restaurants there. However, the local people said that they could resist, but they could not be affected. The first is tradition. Many people eat dog meat everywhere. Dogs are animals like pigs and cows. What can't they eat? We usually only eat that kind of meat dog. This kind of cultured meat dog tastes better.

Yulin Aquatic Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau said that most of the dog meat sold in the market came from other places. Every batch of large trucks carrying meat dogs enters Yulin, and the inspection and quarantine department requires the transport vehicles to provide inspection and quarantine certificates provided by the inspection and quarantine department of the place of origin. Those who have no documents or irregular documents are not allowed to enter Yulin. Yulin US Food and Drug Administration introduced that when dog meat enters the market, food and drug supervision, industry and commerce departments will jointly enforce the law, requiring retailers to provide sales licenses and meat sources, and all stores with irregular or undocumented documents will be banned.