The Chinese government is offering buyouts to wildlife farmers in the Hunan and Jiangxi provinces to help them transition to plant-based farming, a landmark move that comes amid the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, which is thought to have originated at a ‘wet’ market in Wuhan.
Under the recently-published plans, farmers in the neighboring southeast provinces, where most of the country’s wildlife farming occurs, will receive assistance to start growing fruits, vegetables, tea, and medicinal herbs, as well as monetary compensation in exchange for surrendering 14 listed species of farmed animals.
This list includes porcupines, civet cats, bamboo rats, cobras and various other snakes, wild geese, and Chinese muntjac deer. Additional species may be added to the buyout plan, which refers to the initial 14 species as the “first.”
Wildlife farmers who operated with valid permits prior to China’s wildlife trade ban, which was implemented in late February, will be eligible for the program.
“Lady Freethinker applauds the initiative to transition China’s wildlife breeders into plant farmers,” said LFT founder Nina Jackel. “We hope to see many former breeders take this opportunity to switch to a cruelty-free livelihood.”
The government is reportedly offering similar deals to farmers in other provinces, including Guangdong, Yunnan, and Guangxi.
This welcomed plan is similar to the methods that animal welfare organizations have implemented in South Korea for years to help dog meat farmers transition to a more humane livelihood.

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Your post is totally illiterate. Can’t read or make any sense of it. Focus less on your potty mouth swearing & focus more on trying to write a message in plain English.
stop it now
WTF I CANT BELIEVE YOU EVIL, CRUEL INHUMANE MERDERS ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH ALL THE ABOVE AND MORE!!!! NO MATTER HOW MANY PETITIONS I SIGN, THEY GET WORSE AND WORSE, IF THESE PETITIONS ARENT GOING TO DO ANY GOOD THEN I WILL MOT SIGN ANYMORE!!!!! IT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT AND I CRY ALL DAY, HEARTBREAKING TO KEEP SEEING THE SAME THING JUST A DIFFERENT FAY, I HAVENT SEEN ANY VICTORIES AS OF YET FOR ANY OF THESE ANIMALS!!!!!!! IM LOOSING FAITH QUICKLY
Is it more about the signature or the damn money????? I SEE NO DIFFERENCE IN THE HELP THAT THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BRING TO THESE ANIMALS, I NEED SOME PROOF THIS IS WORKING!!!! I HAVENT SEEN IT WORK YET
I wouldn’t trust China with NOTHING!!!! Especially our animals, we’ve seen what they have done to our cats and dogs, and anyone dumb enough to believe them is just adding another death sentence to our previous animals, WTF UP PEOPLE, THEY ATE NO GOOD MF
So, so sad.
Are the Chinese beginning to see the light ? If so , congratulations
I hope they TRULY do this!!! SOOO MANY animals would be spared horrific torture and death! I PRAY they are being TRUTHFUL!!!!
Thank you China. Progress is good, this is the beginning. Let’s keep working together and help China meet it’s goal in this mission. Lots of work to do . . . especially caring for all the animals that will need shelter, medical, rehabilitation & homes. Prayers to all involved as it will be a huge commitment of time, money, heart-aches for both humans & animals.
Thank you China. Progress is good, this is the beginning. Let’s keep working together and help China meet it’s goal in this mission. Lots of work to do . . . especially caring for all the animals that will need shelter, medical, rehabilitation & homes. Prayers to all involved as it will be a huge commitment of time, money, heart-aches for both humans & animals.
I’m very concerned what is going to happen to the animals when the farmer hand them over to the government when they switch.
Animals are sentient beings like us. They deserve to live and thrive like us.
I totally don’t believe anything China says or does. They’re crazy.
great initiative!
Next the CHINESE will be telling us the moon is made of cheese!!!!! What do they intend doing with all the captured wild animals that are being held on these filthy, stinking farms?? Probably kill and eat them anyway and, no doubt, the black market will flourish and the brain-dead, heartless, psychotic barbarians will just continue to horrifically torture, abuse, kill and eat any species that they can, anything that walks, crawls, flies or swim, nothing is saved, nothing is spared. A cess-pit country inhabited by masses that are at the bottom of the cess-pit for brutality, cruelty and depravity.
Yes, the moon is not a planet, it’s gouda and when I reach it next year I will eat it and finally be a virile, horny man. Look out girls!
NO COMMENT ! BASTA
STOP
Yes they’ll buy out farmers and then kidnap torture and eat peoples pet. Why not just be a vegan
But what are the Chinese going to do with the wildlife they say they are replacing?
Exactly what I’d like to know Rose. Flat brained morons are capable of all things painful, cruel & torturous. “Chinese” & “animals” are two words that should never be used together or in the same breath. It will never mean anything good.
CHINESE PEOPLE ARE BRUTALLY CRUEL. THEY HAVE NO REGARD AT ALL ABOUT ANY ANIMAL SUFFERING. MY FAMILY & I HAVE BEEN BOYCOTTING ANYTHING FROM CHINA FOR YEARS! I HOPE AMERICA DOESN’T LET CHINA JUNK INTO OUR COUNTRY ANYMORE. WE NEED TO HAVE THINGS MADE HERE IN AMERICA!
I’m behind your every word on that Phyl. They are sub-human & have not one cell of compassion anywhere in their oxygen wasting bodies. Wish they’d get wiped off the atlas.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS FROM HORRIBLE BRUTAL CHINA!
Feel these animals’ pain.
This is a wonderful proposition! Hopefully, more and more people will take advantage of this and the horrendous practice of trading wildlife will come to an end. Then, surely, the outlawing of the consumption of domestic pets will follow. Thank you all for the work you have done towards this end so far. We must keep up the pressure and keep working by all means possible to bring this about. One giant step for the animals …
It’s way past time for people to stand up for the defenseless and voiceless… We need to care for life just as if it was our own..
It’s way past time for people to stand up for the defenseless and voiceless… We need to care for life just as if it was our own..
Don’t trust those heathen freaks. And what about them torturing, boiling & skinning live dogs & cats to eat?? Will they switch to eating plants instead?? Not as much fun hacking up plants — they don’t scream in agony.
Thank you so much!!! I am SO HAPPY that I was wrong about the Chinese government!! You are showing that you do have a heart and a soul and are trying to make things more humane for animals in your country and safer for all people too. And a big thank you to South Korea too!!! God bless you and your efforts to help people and animals in your countries!!!
But this law does not include dogs and cats.
I sure hope and pray it includes all animals!!!
You’ve got that right Louis!! They’ll never give up their fun torturing them to death — they scream so loud in pain & agony, which plants don’t do, so no fun there.
But this law does not include dogs and cats.
This is wonderful news!! How do they do that without destroying the habitat?
OMG! Finally! Hopefully into fruition ASAP.
Let’s hope this isn’t just idle lip service.
Sounds to good to be true…and will watch closely.
Yes, PLANT POWER…a win,win for human & planetary health…but especially a giant, kind long awaited WIN for the animals!!!
David Harbin — Not so fast! Nothing was mentioned about slow boiling, torturing, & skinning live domestic animals! We can’t expect them to give up ALL their fun, can we?
OMG! Finally! Hopefully into fruition ASAP.
Let’s hope this isn’t just idle lip service.
Sounds to good to be true…and will watch closely.
Yes, PLANT POWER…a win,win for human & planetary health…but especially a giant, kind long awaited WIN for the animals!!!
Bonne nouvelle
A question. Do these measures by the Chinese government include dogs and cats?
I,kinda,don’t get it but If it’s what I think it is when hell freezes over they will?
oh they will gida
I have to believe in my heart that this is going to happen because it simply too horrible to continue. But if it wasn’t for the virus, this would have continued until the extinction of many species. They do this because of the virus danger…not for the animals as it is extremely profitable for the government.
What a great idea.
Why do we believe these people? They’ve never told the truth. It’s a deception.
We hope and pray!
Let’s pray this happens
Change comes through education. I hope this works.
These people need to be changed and the only way is to offer them a new income source.