Yulin, Guangxi

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I think it’s a good thing to support activists who are in Yulin and are protesting against eating dogs. My only problem with the opposition to Yulin is that so much of it comes from white, western meat eaters, who have absolutely no business protesting against animal consumption in other countries while doing absolutely nothing about animal suffering in their own country. Opposition to Yulin should be a small part of a wider opposition to all animal exploitation - not just a single issue campaign.

It’s high time I started to sketch these characters out. Yulin’s face shape from the side is based on this really old aviator poster I stare at on Tuesdays.

China, which in the 60′s consumed less than 5 kg of meat per capita, which is 20 times less than the US, now kills and eats more than half of all pigs (who are, by the way, more intelligent than dogs, in case that matters) killed in the world (more than half a billion). But the unforgivable crime for the “international community” is, apparently, the 100.000 dogs that are killed in China every year. It would be "highly desirable for China to be seen to do the right thing, which is to give dogs legal status as companion animals”, and if they want to improve their image and attract more successful, rich, white folks to their country, they’re gonna have to do what’s right and stop killing man’s best friend. Instead, they should kill another 100k pigs, or some other animal that the civilized west also slaughters.