//Yulins dog meat festival,where some 100,000 dogs are slaughtered and served up as meals, is often wrongly assumed to be an ancient Chinese tradition. In fact, the festival only dates back to 2009 when it was launched in the city in China's southwest to celebrate the summer solstice. Thousands of dogs will suffer, be butchered, beaten to death, skinned alive and eaten. At its height during the Han Dynasty (202 - 220 AD), dog meat was considered a deliccacy. Dog eating sooon lost favor and by the Sui-Tang dynasties (581 --- 907 AD), dog eating had been rejected as an indecent habit.// Subsequent dynasties valued dogs as helpers and hunting buddies. With their new found bond with animals, this new generation of ''Chinese'' see cats and dogs as thinking, feeling individualls deserving of compassion. Most importantly, they are friends not food.//
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