China’s Dog Meat Festival Protested by Ricky Gervais, Chloe Grace Moretz

China’s Yulin Festival, an annual dog meat celebration for which nearly 10,000 dogs will be slaughtered this year, is underway and celebrities and animal activists alike are fighting to bring the festivities to an end.

A Change.org petition to ban the dog-eating festival is currently circulating with more than 3.9 million supporters and people have also taken to Twitter to protest using the hashtag #StopYuLin2015.

See how Hollywood has been fighting the festival below.

It’s misleading to call Yulin a Dog Meat Festival. It should be called a Dog Torture Festival. Because that’s what it is. #StopYuLin2015

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 21, 2015

This Yulin dog festival is making me physically ill to even think about.

— Chloe Grace Moretz (@ChloeGMoretz) June 22, 2015

Today the torture starts and it makes me sick. For ALL animals #StopYuLin2015

— Tove Lo (@ToveLo) June 22, 2015

 

#StopYulin2015

A photo posted by Paris Hilton (@parishilton) on Jun 18, 2015 at 6:23am PDT

https://t.co/tgKfNNnCY1 please sign this and retweet. This has to end. It is unbearable.

— Ruby Rose (@RubyRose) June 17, 2015

Makeup 4 tonight is a green paw 2 honour the dogs of Yulin that wil cruelly lose their lives this wkend #StopYulin pic.twitter.com/J3iyg6yvBN

— Leona Lewis (@leonalewis) June 21, 2015

 

Tears. Just why. This has to stop. #StopYulin

A photo posted by Jessie J (@isthatjessiej) on Jun 20, 2015 at 8:00pm PDT

Stops dogs being skinned alive and beaten in the streets in China?SIGN THIS WITH ME NOW! https://t.co/Q7ul2toNOG

— ian somerhalder (@iansomerhalder) June 15, 2015

 

It breaks my heart to see how much evil is out there, how can anyone torture and kill this loving and innocent creatures? Please sign this petition to stop this #YuLin2015. #StopYuLin2015 #stopanimaltorture #moreloveplease https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china-stop-the-yulin-dog-meat-eating-festival Corta meu coração ver quanta maldade tem no mundo, como alguém pode torturar e matar estas criaturas amorosas e inocentes? Por favor, assine esta petição para acabar com este #YuLin2015 #parecomatorturadeanimais #maisamorporfavor https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china-stop-the-yulin-dog-meat-eating-festival

A photo posted by Gisele Bündchen (@giseleofficial) on Jun 20, 2015 at 6:09am PDT

I can barely bring myself to talk about the horrific Yulin Dog and Cat Meat festival because it makes me so sick.

— Simon Cowell (@SimonCowell) June 22, 2015