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China celebrity dog stolen, sold for US$25 and eaten (www.scmp.com)

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[-] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 3 months ago

lol

[-] T156@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Am I missing something?

Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.

The article just ends after this part:

Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.

Checking the archive didn't turn up any more of the article.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 months ago

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 months ago

I think the rest of the article is locked behind javascript, there was a fade and a button to load the rest of the article.

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[-] Vandalismo@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sorry but this line is so absurd i can't stop laughing

Anyway, this is a matter on the levels of disable someone

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

That's just Doomslayer.

[-] rounding_error@lemmy.today 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This hits close to home since my dog actually escaped the Chinese meat market. As far as I’m aware it’s actually a big problem over there. They were owned by an (assuming) wealthy family then stolen and sold. They were part of the batch that were seized / stolen back (tbh I’m fuzzy on the details). We’ve since given her a happy life and a family, but I feel a little morbid that fate could’ve swayed the other way and they would’ve been someone’s dinner.

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[-] magnue@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Maybe just stop eating dogs eh?

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 27 points 3 months ago

While not getting into whether we should eat meat at all, if we are eating meat, I don't see how eating dog meat is any more or less immoral than eating most other meats. Eating someone's pet, whether it be a dog or a pot belly pig is a shit move, but I doubt the restaurant was told they were buying someone's pet.

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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 months ago

expand that to all animals and you're really on to something

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago

Really? Not John Wick?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago

The article title and body don't match in the amount of the sale:

sold for US$25

He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.

I mean, not that it's that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don't match.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

180 yuan right now is $26.59. Given the headline only reports the conversion which changes, it's arguably better to round it as they did to convey a general point rather than the exact specific amount of dollars.

Edit: Looking at it now, the conversion rate seems reasonably stable, so I wonder if they still rounded it just for simplicity's sake.

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Should have sold the dog as a pet. Previous owner paid $300USD for him.

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[-] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

What the actual ….. 😕

[-] West_of_West@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

So dog meat is affordable?

looks at my cockapoo

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

You already own the cockapoo, so only you can say how affordable its meat is

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

My lab was $500. Discount doggy. But his alive value is immeasurable.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Rupert† was only $60. But we have fed him for something like 8 years. So that's a pretty large investment for a meal. And if you see my posts over on c/cooking you will know that I am always calculating the cost of a meal.

Your lab has a lot more than $500 in them. Don't undervalue them. I don't think lab is suitable for breakfast, lunch or brunch. Have people over for dinner and charge a reasonable amount.

† aka I wasn't letting my wife make him Giles.

This comment, hopefully, is solidly sarcasm.

[-] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My yorkshire terrier has horrible price to weight ratio. He was about 18000 sek as a puppy, with a weight of less than half a kilo. As I fed him to full weight, he stopped growing muscles at around 3 kilos.

Would not recommend as a food species. I kept him alive and now, 11 years later, I can say that he has been fully acceptable as a pet instead.

Kant the dog

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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Maybe china should focus its governmental might on stopping illegal meat butchers instead of stopping gay people from using public spaces.

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[-] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Eating Dog? In modern day China?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago

searches

https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades

Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.

Sounds like it.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

I hope he shared which restaurant the dog was sold to. I suspect the place would be burnt to the ground.

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There still exist absolute traditionalist peasantry, unbending even during Mao and the Cultural Revolution, and even unchanged by how much money they earn, where they still maintain their own culture and habits, which includes consuming certain animals for their supposed medicinal and libidinous properties. Yeah, to those people, a dog is a dog that can be killed for dinner as livestock... and washed down with beer.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

It is a fair enough opinion to have. A dog is a dog, meat is meat.

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I saw a video of the guy crying in his car after confronting the people who kidnapped his dog and sold it.

Heartbreaking. He might just go John wick on their ass.

They stole his beloved pet and sold it to be slaughtered.

Most people see their pets as family. How would you feel if someone did that to your pet or family member you loved?

It's enough to make someone go on a vengeance spree. It really is.

[-] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Billions of animals murdered for food every year: 😊
Celebrity doggo eaten: 🤬😤😡

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

Well, there's quite the headline.

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