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[11] [12] [13] On January 26, 2010, China launched its first draft proposal to protect the country's animals from maltreatment, including a measure to jail people—for periods up to 15 days—for eating cat or dog meat. [14] With the increase of cats as pets in China, opposition towards the traditional use of cats for food has grown.
Chinese Animal Protection Network (CAPN) is a non-profit animal protection organization, and the first network for animal protection in China, founded by Chinese people. CAPN is known for its pioneering role in the animal rights movement in China, leading the growing movement against eating cats and dogs, and providing a free encyclopedia on ...
Police in China have rescued some 1,000 cats from a truck en route to a slaughterhouse, state-affiliated media has reported, busting part of an illicit trade that fraudulently sells feline meat as ...
Selling cat meat is illegal in China, but an estimated four million cats are killed for human consumption every year 1,000 cats rescued from slaughter for illegal meat trade in China Skip to main ...
[32] Reports from 2013 and 2015 suggested that although the consumption of cat meat was widely considered taboo in China, it was still eaten in some rural and southern regions. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Online tabloid newspapers widely shared a video in September 2016 of a greyhound-type dog being forced into a large barrel of boiling water.
"101 Dalmatians" may be a fictional cartoon, but in China there's a similarly unsettling story that is stranger than fiction. More than a thousand cats destined to be sold for their fur and meat ...
In October 2013, cat meat, slaughtered at a "black" slaughterhouse in Huai'an City near Shanghai, was sold to butchers and local markets under the guise of "rabbit". Some of the cats were kept alive and shipped to the southern provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi where they were sold for around 10 yuan (£1) per animal. [93] [94]
In an episode of the television show "ALF," which aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, the furry alien and show's namesake is shown getting ready to eat a cat between two halves of a submarine roll.