Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics.
Dog is eaten not only by the large Korean community in China's capital but is also popular in Yunnan and Guizhou restaurants.
A directive from the Beijing Food Safety Office issued last month ordered Olympic contractor hotels not to provide any dishes made with dog meat and said any canine material used in traditional medicated diets must be clearly labeled.
Concerned that canine dishes might offend animal rights groups and Western visitors, Beijing said restaurants expected to be popular among foreign visitors must stop serving dog meat "to respect the dining customs of different countries."
The directive "advocated" that all restaurants serving dog suspend it during the Olympics but made no mention of the many popular establishments with donkey on the menu.
Criticism from Westerners caused the dog meat-loving South Koreans to ban canine dishes for a period of time during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
(Reporting by Liu Zhen; Editing by Nick Mulvenney and Jeremy Laurence)
Thats to bad. I was hoping to order me up some Chihuahua on a stick with a side of donkey tartare. :P
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What about the deep-fried baby chicks? Won't somebody think of the chicks?
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I think deer steaks are about as exotic as I get... Mmm... that's good ol' country boy eatin' right there.
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I just ate your dog. And he was good.
Is there a species of dog large enough to feed that child?
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Holy shit... that's like the dog from Sandlot!
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YOU"RE KILLIN' ME SMALLS!!!!
we're gonna be china's slaves we're gonna be china's slaves.