I hope and pray with all my heart that on June 21st I am absolutely 100% wrong, but based on the last two years odds are I am right.
In 2015 a month before Yulin was set to start, just like today, the same exact scenario took place. Word was spreading that dog meat would be banned. it turned out the ban was not dog meat but, the words dog meat on menus, awnings and any outside signage.
Another ban was Yulin officials banning all outdoor seating, and pushing the slaughter of these innocent animals to the back room of the slaughterhouses. In …show more content…
Why are hundreds of dogs be shipped into the city a month before the festival begins?
I have been covering Yulin for years and my honest opinion is this.
The incoming appointed Party Secretary Mo Gong Ming is set to take over power on June 15th, a week before the Yulin Festival starts.
I may or may not want this Festival to end, but taking over Yulin's leadership a week before the start of the festival is not great timing. If he does intend to close the Festival down, he may announce it, but then say "We are not banning the sale of dog meat, but we will stop all trucks carrying dogs from entering Yulin.
The outside media will, of course, sing his praises as they watch every truck being pulled over and the dogs confiscated. The media, playing the fools they are will not report that the trucks being stopped and Ming is a true hero. Of course, the truck was simply a trojan horse because the dogs set for slaughter had already been in Yulin for weeks.
As far as this banning story goes, it seems that it was set in motion by either "The Independent" or by "National