Two British women rescue 1,000 dogs destined for dinner tables in China

LAHORE: Two British women nicknamed the 'Angels of Yulin' have rescued 1,000 dogs, which were due to be butchered at a Chinese slaughter house and then served as a ‘dinner delicacy.’

The two women were present at China’s sickening “Yulin Dog Meat Festival.” An esteemed British newspaper “Daily Mail” has reported: “In a daring rescue operation witnessed exclusively by the MailOnline, a team including Brits Jess Henderson and Helen Reed won a last-minute stay of execution for the dogs and whisked them away to the safety of animal shelters. In moving scenes, the animal lovers wept as they were allowed into the slaughter house where the dead and the dying lay inside rusty cages alongside terrified dogs – many of them pets stolen off the streets. Their mission comes as meat traders at the controversial festival reveal their sickening techniques to butcher dogs from cage to dinner plate. Dogs have their throats slit, are cooked in vats of boiling water and their fur is blowtorched to make ‘dog crackling’ seasoned with garlic, chilli and ginger.”

The newspaper has gone on to write: “Some 10,000 dogs and 4,000 cats are killed each year for the notorious event which began in 2010 and went ahead this year despite a petition to the Chinese government this year signed by millions of animal lovers worldwide. The California-based charity Animal Wellness and Hope Foundation rescued 1,000 dogs from four slaughterhouses, using four trucks to spirit them out of Yulin to safety. Some 280 dogs were rescued from one slaughterhouse alone to which MailOnline was given exclusive access.”

The media house report added: “Some of those were saved after charity bosses paid slaughterhouse owners thousands of pounds to close for the duration of the 10-day festival and to set the dogs free in a deal struck only the day before event began on June 21. The foundation's leader Marc Ching told MailOnline last night the deal was one of six he had struck and said he hoped to transfer a total of 900 condemned dogs out of Yulin by Wednesday. Yesterday's remarkable rescue in the Gandi village district of Yulin involved a nerve-jangling six-hour operation to transfer volunteers and rescue trucks to the primitive slaughter house to secure the dogs' release. The team was shadowed every step of the way by undercover police officers who monitored their every move and tailed them on motorbikes and cars as they travelled from their hotel to the slaughter house.”