Friday July 11, 2008, 4:55 am
http://blogs.reuters.com/china/2008/07/08/dos-and-donts-of-reporting/#comment-747
I LEFT A STATEMENT ON REUTERS FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH

Friday July 11, 2008, 5:02 am
Wonder what the chances of them keeping dogs,cats etc. off the menus for good.Well we can keep bombarding them with emails,calls and boycotts and letting everyone know how these animals are treated.Thanks Sophia

Friday July 11, 2008, 5:07 am
Dorthy I was gonna ask the same question yeah for how long???? The freaks...

Big Gorilly Hugs

Friday July 11, 2008, 5:30 am
What a bunch of hypocrites and twisted people.Take dog meat off the menu's during the olympic games.Really really low.Burn the restaurants that have dogmeat on the menu i say,sorry,that is to radical eh,can't help myself

Friday July 11, 2008, 5:30 am
No Claudia I love your comment and agree burn them all down....even the streetside vendors....

Big Gorilly Hugs

Friday July 11, 2008, 6:22 am
PLEASE POST COMMENT IN THIS REGARDS ON THE REUTERS LINK I LEFT FOR JOURNALISTS TO READ THERE MAY BE A JOURNALIST SYMPATHETIC TO ANIMALS

Friday July 11, 2008, 6:50 am
..can't seem to find that!
Where is it Sophia?

Friday July 11, 2008, 10:11 am
the news are all over the net..whats the point?? they gonna reopen them anyway!

No doggy dishes on Olympic menu
9 hours ago

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially-designated Olympic restaurants, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported.

Beijing tourism officials are also telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs.

Waiters and waitresses should "patiently" suggest other options to diners who order dog, it said, quoting city tourism bureau Vice Director Xiong Yumei.

Dog, known in Chinese as "xiangrou" or "fragrant meat" is eaten by some Chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.

Beijing is not the first Olympic host to slap a ban on chomping chow chow.

South Korea banned dog meat during the 1988 Seoul Olympics by invoking a law prohibiting the sale of "foods deemed unsightly".

After the Olympics, the ban was not strictly enforced.

Dog meat is also eaten in some other Asian countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos.

Friday July 11, 2008, 3:26 pm
It's on BBC World, Asia news

Friday July 11, 2008, 3:28 pm
http://blogs.reuters.com/china/2008/07/08/dos-and-donts-of-reporting/#comment-747

Friday July 11, 2008, 3:36 pm
You can bet your last dollar that after the Olympics are over, China and Beijing will have dog meat back on the menu. Business and cruelty back to normal... Yep, abuses towards animals and people will continue... Hypocrites...

TY, Sophia.

Friday July 11, 2008, 6:14 pm
Of course it will be back on the menu. I will continue to boycott the olympic's and China. Your right Jim, they are hypocrites. Thanks Sophia.

Friday July 11, 2008, 7:38 pm
I WISH THE SLIMES WOULD LEAVE IT ON THE MENU FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE-INCLUDING THE KIDS! THEY JUST PUT IT BACK LATER!

Friday July 11, 2008, 8:16 pm
I WONDER IF THE REASON FOR DOING THIS IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW ITS WRONG AND INHUMAN,AS TO STOP JUST DURING THE DURATION OF THE OLYMPICS IS UNETHICAL AS IT SHOULD BE STOPPED COMPLETELY AND OUTLAWED NOW,START DOING RIGHT BY THE ANIMALS CHINA,AS YOU HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED BY YOUR PAST ACTIONS THAT CONTINUE TODAY,BECOME HUMANS CHINA.

Saturday July 12, 2008, 2:21 am
My comment is awaiting moderation.

Saturday July 12, 2008, 5:40 am
I CANOT UNDERSTAND WHY THESE AISANS DON´T LEARN A SIMPLE THING: RESPECT AND LOVE! THEY ARE VERY CUREL AND SADISTS!THEY REALLY OBTAIN PLEASURE INFLICTING PAIN ON ANIMALS! THEY NEED EDUCATION AND PRACTICE THE GODS LAWS!

Saturday July 12, 2008, 11:41 am
THEIR EATING THEIR OWN FETUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY GONNA HAVE MERCY TO DOGS???!!! THEY EAT ALL THAT HAS 4 LEGS EXCEPT THE DINNER TABLE..THATS FREAKING CHINA -PERIOD
THE OLYMPICS THERE IS THE WORST DISGRACE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday July 12, 2008, 11:43 am
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Waiters and waitresses should 'patiently' suggest other options to diners who order dog, it said, quoting city tourism bureau Vice Director Xiong Yumei."

Quotation from the Associated Press

I can imagine a waitress patiently urging a Chinese customer not to eat dog:

Waiter: Mr. Phingtron, I know dog ear is a delicious delicacy, but we must not offend the sensibilities of the Capitalists. Please order some Chow Mein or sweet and sour pork instead.

As the owner of two dogs, I'm delighted that at least for a few weeks canine cuisine will be off the menu of selected Beijing restaurants. Westerners won't be faced with the horrible prospect of opening a menu and finding the following entrees: Poodle bits, Boxer Burger, Pit Bull jerky and Hot Dogs (made from real dogs).

But when I think of the injustices in China, animal cruelty is at the bottom of the list. It would be nice if China banned sweatshops, the oppression of Tibet, and the imprisonment of dissidents during the Olympics.

Westerners shouldn't go to the Olympics in the first place, why give legitimacy to a totalitarian government? I'm so disgusted by the tyranny of the Chinese government, that I'm not watching the Olympics on TV.

Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.

Saturday July 12, 2008, 11:51 am
Would you eat dog meat?

you can debate here:

http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/would-you-eat-dog-meat/

Monday July 14, 2008, 5:48 am
what a hypocrisy ! as if the problem does not exists..... showing a "civilised" face...