Eeewww!! Chinese Puppy Chow

Gag on this morsel from Channel NewsAsia, “China’s dog meat festival opens despite ban rumours“.

A notorious Chinese dog meat festival opened on Wednesday (Jun 21) with sellers torching the hair off carcasses, butchers chopping slabs of canines and cooks frying up dishes, dispelling rumours that authorities would ban sales this year.

After earlier reports of a sales ban at the summer solstice event in the southern city of Yulin, animal rights groups said vendors and officials reached a compromise and set a limit of two dogs on display per stall.

But multiple carcasses rested on several stalls at two markets, with stiff pointy tails, leathery yellow skin, eyes shut and bared teeth as if in a final growl.

Here’s the real deal puppy chow, not that gross and disgusting chow made from, well, chow chows.

Daily Darwin – Whose Genome Gets Gored?

Darwin states that he paraphrased the old adage a bit.  “It depends upon whose ox gets gored” gets this substitution , “At a rodeo, it depends upon the row in which you sit as to whether your genome gets gored.”  So whose genome gets gored?  Why the dufus in the first row, of course.

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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