Thread: Dog meat off the menu during Beijing Olympics

Dog meat off the menu during Beijing Olympics
Friday, July 11, 2008 1:45 AM PDT

Post your Comments Increase Font Decrease Font email this story print this story Two Chinese girls peek underneath a billboard covering a construction site in Beijing Friday, July 11, 2008.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) BEIJING - 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.

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

Beijing isn't the first Olympic host to slap a ban on the dish.

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.


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Gosh how "PC" of them. I hope the strays aren't too problematic now that they won't be ending up on the dinner table for a while.

How thoughtful.....just not so sure I'd trust the ban anyway. :P

I would not trust the chinese in an out house with a muzzle on.