China tries to outlaw eating cats and dogs

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Every once in awhile I get the Popcorn Park Zoo and Animal Sanctuary newsletter. Mostly it's full of heart wrenching photos and stories of animals that made it their care and some of the other shelters they're associated with. I always say, "Shit, not another one of these! I can't look inside." But I do anyway. It's full of info on legislation locally, nationwide and international. The purpose is to try to get the animals in the booklet adopted but they show some key legislation that passed regarding animals. This story of China struck me because I've seen how they kill animals for consumption. 20 years ago and the images still haunt me as if I saw it the first time. I'll never forget that. I hope they pass this and can enforce this and that the practice wanes from here too. Too many Chinese restaurants are found to be serving or storing dead cats to this day. I'm always suspect of the pork.

From the booklet:

Legislation has been introduced to ban the custom of eating dogs and cats and it is making it's way through the Chinese government since early 2010. This law would be the first of its kind in this country's history. Anyone caught eating this meat would face a fine and up to 15 days in jail. Businesses would face a higher fine. Tragically, even if the Anti-Animal Abuse Law is passed, it wouldn't go into effect for years. The torture method is inhumane and sickening. For more information, contact www.animalasia.org

[Twilla]

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While the idea of eating either dog or cat sickens me, I understand it's a cultural difference. They need to learn how to humanely raise and slaughter them though, the few photos I could tolerate looking at made some of the worst animal abusers in this country look like rank amateurs.

I'd be pretty pissed off if the government told me I could no longer eat beef.

[twisteroo]

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Are these pictures at that link? If so I'll pass.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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No pictures of horrors that I can see, Twist, but I didn't dig around past the home page.

Twilla, I don't think they started out eating cats and dogs as a normal practice but I think it happened out of necessity during bad times and it never went away.