Animal Rights - is eating meat wrong?

NY times

 In China, the Jinha Hutou Dog Meat Festival (which consists of the slaughter and eating of thousands of dogs) was canceled because of an online campaign started by animal rights advocates. each year thousands of dogs would be brought to the city and slaughtered to be eaten. this year, what started as a small internet campaign to raise awarenss for animal rights, ended in the canlcelation of a thousand year old festival. Similar events involvg nimal rights have also taken place and been stopped- a truck taking 500 dogs to a slaughter house was stopped by 200 people and all the dogs were saved. this rising awareness maybe related to the rising amount of Chinese own pets.