In reply to aln:
I think it is worth talking about.
I eat meat. I don't think eating dog meat is wrong, but I do think both meat eaters and vegetarians can look to improve how animals live and experience death. To say that eating meat requires you to have zero opinion on animal welfare is overly black and white thinking, even for the most militant of veggies.
So China.... I used to think that life is what it is and not seeing things or not knowing them is never the better position to be in, till I watched a clip of a dog skinned alive (apparently it's easier to remove the skin that way). I had never imagined that an animal would still be alive, but I could see the skinned dogs blink, breathe and move.
I'm not going to search for the clip again, knowing didn't enrich my life and I would not share it anyway, but it did change my opinion that ignorance is never bliss.
To be really clear - I do not think conditions for dog destined for meat in China are the same as those for the beef bullocks, sheep and pigs in the uk. I think we still need to improve our own conditions but we should put pressure on other countries, just as other countries should put pressure on us at times.