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Can this be true...?
I just found this article on the ITV news page, dated yesterday May 18 2017. (beware, there are upsetting images on this page)
Apparently there is to be a "temporary" ban on the sale of dog meat at the Yulin event this year, which is scheduled to come into force on June 15th.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-05-18/china...at-banned/

This is not the end. It isn't that kind of breakthrough....yet. But to quote Andrea Gung,  executive director of Duo Duo Animal Welfare Project: (the temporary ban) " was encouraging evidence of a political will inside China to clamp down on the trade.....Even if this is a temporary ban, we hope this will have a domino effect, leading to the collapse of the dog meat trade."

If this is true it is the big break that is needed. The main sale of dog meat would be stopped. There will still be some slaughter elsewhere, but the open killing and eating in the big market would be stopped.

I think once the festival has been "broken" it will never go back to what it was. Too many people in China and in the world are against it.

Once the festival dates pass and the main slaughter does not take place then we will know that there is victory. Until then we need to keep the pressure on.

If Yulin is ended then it will effect the whole practice of eating dog meat. I am cautiously optimistic.

Yes, I read about this temporary ban yesterday, but didn't have time to post. It is good news, but of course only temporary. China, although still technically a Communist and authoritarian country, relies on selling its goods all over the world. It is therefore more open to world opinion than it used to be years ago.

The pressure needs to be kept up, however, until the ban becomes permanent.

I hope the temporary ban has a good result and people are fine with it. The government is more likely to extend the ban if the results are good.
So if there is any way we can send a "Well done China" message we should do it.