The skinning and boiling of live dogs is nothing secret. In Yulin, crispy dog skin is a specialty. Boiling is how they prepare it.<p>Even beyond that, the person you were replying to has a point: dogs being raised as livestock is one thing, but the systematic torture they endure in countries like China, South Korea and Vietnam is an entirely different (and wholly deplorable) point altogether. In the rare event that a factory is discovered in the US torturing and abusing livestock, the public outcry is usually enough to shut that facility down and cut off their supply chain. In places like Vietnam (as the article describes) it&#x27;s merely brushed off as a shameful-yet-ultimately-permissible tradition.