DOG EATERS: Yulin festival – where 15,000 canines get slaughtered and eaten every year

In the Nigeria, we see cats and dogs as domestic pets rather than ever thinking about them as food.
But the Yulin Dog Meat festival turns that idea on its head, because it is a food festival completely dedicated to selling dog and cat meat.
The festival lasts 10 days over the summer solstice and sees supporters spread in to the city of Yulin from all over China in order to buy and trade in the meat.
As the 2016 celebrations draw to a close, around 15,000 dogs and cats will have been killed, cooked and eaten.
Along with selling whole dogs and cats to punters wanting to cook up the pets, they also dish up samples of the dog meat to eat in the street, washed down with lychee wine.
Dog and cat meat in China is a delicacy and goes in many dishes.
Because the meat is fatty, it is especially used during the winter months – which is why the festival trades at this time of year.
Along with butchers killing and skinning the animals to be sold and eaten at a later date, local businesses thrive by cooking up the cats and dogs to sell as street food.
Unsurprisingly, Yulin festival is very controversial.
As soon as the festival became known a couple of years ago, millions have signed petitions and gone on marches in order for the festival to stop.