06-23-2016, 03:36 AM
I know the festival is fairly recent idea. And there is not a long-standing tradition of eating dog meat in China. I am sure there have been instances in the distant past when people have done, but so have there been in other countries, usually when people have been reduced to survival situations (such as during the Russian revolution etc, when sometimes even dead people were eaten!)
In the early 1970s I was friends with a Chinese girl my own age, who had come to study in the UK. (I never asked the politics of that!) However we were both interested in authentic Chinese food. Even though I ate meat then, there was never any mention of dog meat as a particular tradition.
In the early 1970s I was friends with a Chinese girl my own age, who had come to study in the UK. (I never asked the politics of that!) However we were both interested in authentic Chinese food. Even though I ate meat then, there was never any mention of dog meat as a particular tradition.
