China has ordered dog meat to be taken off the menu at its 112 official Olympic restaurants in order to avoid offending foreign visitors.
Restaurant workers are advised to "patiently" suggest other options to diners who order dog.
Any restaurant found violating the ban would be black-listed, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Dog - known as "fragrant meat" - is eaten by some Chinese for purported medicinal properties.
The ban, issued by the Beijing Catering Trade Association, forbids all designated Olympic restaurants from offering dog and urges other food outlets to remove the meat from menus.
"If a customer orders dog meat, restaurant staff should patiently suggest another entree," said Xiong Yumei, deputy director of the Beijing Tourism Bureau told Xinhua.
Act of respect
The measure has been implemented to "respect the habits of many countries and nationalities," the Beijing News quoted the municipal food department as saying.
The BBC's James Reynolds says the ban is one of several steps taken by China to avoid foreign visitors being amused or offended by local customs.
Authorities have also told people to queue up politely, to smile and not to spit on the streets.
During the 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korea also banned doggie dishes from menus. Officials invoked a law banning the sale of "foods deemed unsightly".
Dog meat is eaten in some other Asian countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos.
-world news
Dear readers,
This practice of eating dogs MUST stop.
I'm told that they don't eat dogs in the Philippines anymore.
I hope and pray that this is true.
Because chicken is much better, I'm almost positive of that!
The humane treatment of dogs and cats is essential to all societies.
Its a bench mark set many hundreds of years ago.
Because for many of us, dogs are our children.
I understand Balut... but just barely.
I've tried it but nearly cried when I thought about what I was actually eating.
Its a psychological thing I know.
The poor need the nutritional value that comes from a duck egg, I'm told.
I can let this go.
BUT DOG!
No fucking way.
Without the respect for domestic animals, your society slowly shuts down.
Whats next... eating aborted babies because they are yummy too!
Because the Chinese are rumored to do this as well.
Aborted babies?
Yes that's right readers.
A nasty dirty filthy little secret that some hideous Chinese have been doing for many years.
Apparently aborted babies are VERY nutritional as well.
Where does it stop readers?
This is totally fucked up and I feel like barfing just thinking about it.
If you eat a dog, karma dictates that you will have a price to pay.
According to the bible, it's totally acceptable to eat cows , fish, pigs (unless you are Jewish of course, and even then, some of my Jewish friends LOVE to eat crispy bacon) and chickens and such.
No question.
I'm sure God has a few dogs too, and he will be pissed as well!
I hate China for so many reasons.
And I am NOT alone.
They LOVE killing monks for one.
They just love to watch them float down the river in their saffron robes.
China should NOT be hosting the games.
If China were not such a massive economy (built totally on the blood and guts of their people), they would NEVER have snatched the games away from other decent countries.
And not only because they eat dog.
But because they harvest the organs from poor bread stealer's and sell them for millions of dollars to rich Russians who need new livers because they have destroyed there by the time they are twenty years old. Babies in Russia are fed vodka from birth to keep them quiet during religious service. Google it!
China is a disgusting country for the most part.
And so is Russia.
EVIL, the two of them.
Sure the Great Wall is neat I guess, but big fucking deal. One hundred and twelve thousand people died while building the wall. So enjoy every brick that you walk over when you're there. Because under each one is the blood of a poor enforced labor or who probably pinched a bit of food for their family and got caught. There is a huge wall now in the middle east too, but people are not flocking to see that one.
China is an incredibly evil regime, hell bent on removing any freedoms and rights which we all enjoy and take for granted, from their people.
China should burn in hell for what they do to their people.
STOP EATING DOGS!
STOP Harvesting organs for cash!!!!
And boycott the Olympics in China.
WHY would you go to a country where they MURDER the worlds precious monks for simply wanting freedoms and rights?
For goodness sakes, they MURDER monks.
I want to cry.
beautiful young monks praying
