Inside China’s brutal dog meat trade where 10 million dogs a year are killed, cooked and eaten

Every June, in the south east city of Yulin, thousands of dogs are slaughtered, butchered, cooked and eaten for the ten-day Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, where some believe the fruit and meat combination will bring health through the long winter months. Footage from last year’s event, which showed a dog being blowtorched alive, caused outrage around the world. But the thousands slaughtered at Yulin are just a drop in the ocean for a legal trade that sees 30million dogs slaughtered worldwide annually.