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In July 2016, a rumor emerged that Chinese restaurants in Pretoria, South Africa had been authorized to sell dog meat: As with any story about animals popularly seen as (often anthromorphized) pets rather than food, the article generated a great deal of cultural outrage. However, it's completely untrue. The story is a plagiarized and repurposed version of a persistent article that we debunked in 2014 and again in 2016: Except for the location, the July 2016 piece appearing on Gossip Mill Msanzi is almost exactly the same as previous versions of the article, right down to the photograph (which was itself stolen from a 2014 New York Times story): Yulin's annual dog meat festival has been a topic of discussion and criticism by animal rights groups. However, the festival has not made its way to South Africa, nor have restaurants there (nor in Los Angeles or New York) been given special permission to cook and sell dog.
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