Joining a number of other online shopping platforms, Chinese retailer Pin Duo Duo has banned the sale of dog and cat meat after customers discovered and reported that some of its retailers were selling such products online.
Pin Duo Duo released a statement on December 12, 2017, announcing that “it was prohibited for anyone to sell cat and dog meat on the platform,” and mentioned there would be action taken against the perpetrators. In the statement, the retailer also talked about the potential dangers involved with consuming animals that may be infected with parasites or diseases that can affect humans, such as rabies.
Such firm and positive action is a heartening trend among Chinese online retailers. In July 2017, Taobao, China’s version of Ebay, removed dog meat products from their site after a campaign by Animals Asia. Top food order platform ele.me banned the sale of all dog meat in 2016, along with bear bile, bear paw, shark fin and other wildlife products.
In a country where as many as 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed for food every year, it is promising to see these large online retailers shunning the cruel industry — in which thieves routinely steal pets and strays to sell to slaughter. Consumer pressure is enormously important in issues such as these. With the recent Pin Duo Duo case, it was only after consumers discovered these items for sale and started to boycott the site that the ban was enacted.
Irene Feng, Animals Asia’s Cat and Dog Welfare Director said, “We’re pleased to see Pin Duo Duo join the ranks of Taobao, ele.me, Dangdang, Jingdong, Stunning, Amazon and the entire Alibaba Group, which have all promised to remove cat and dog meat and related products from their platforms. Ordinary people aren’t turning away from the problem of animal cruelty, but are more actively calling it out when they see it as they demand more compassionate, and more humane treatment of all living beings.”
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It’s about time
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A little step in the right direction. Keep fighting!
Ce sont des monstres!je boycotte tous produits venant de Chine!
Please Stop this if you can its living being even though its only dogs you don’t do that never never
the world needs to go vegan!!! its so simple !
Awesome! So happy this progress has been made. Well done to Animal Asia for representing and never quitting!
I wish and hope this barbaric tradition will stop! This is one of the most horrific things that I have ever heard of… So insanely cruel!
I hope they should understand the meaning of compassion which i think they lack.
Glad to hear of that. I hope all of China will do the same
Dogs and cats are humans comlamuons
So glad to hear that. If all retailers do this then dogs and cats will not be a target which they shouldn’t be. As the saying goes Dogs are a best mans friend. They are like us humans feel, hurt, love unconditionally how can civilised humans treat these beautiful animals this way. Stop and think of your actions!!!!
I’ve often wondered if boycotting was effective-this is proof it is!!!!!! GOOD to FINALLY hear a GOOD story coming out of China! Let’s keep the pressure up and END dog, cat “meat” trade, shark finning, tiger, lion bone shipment, rhino horn, pangolin trade, bear bile and UGH killing donkeys too!!!!
ABOUT TIME!!!!
~ Great to read this ~ Thank you ~ mgf
Individuals that treat animals like this are primitive savages.
So happy. Plz stop the killing of all animals ?
Confido in qualche disastro naturale che ci liberi di qualche troglodita!
I wish CHina would begin to show the same level of concern for the peoples of Tibet & Taiwan, as it does for these animals
With all of this Animal Cruelty in the world where is Saint Francis? The Saint of animals, why does God allow Cruelty on innocent helpless animals and children?
Lets keep the pressure until ALL THIS SADISTIC CRUELTY STOPS!!!. AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!
THE ONLY THING FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN DO NOTHING!!
THIS SADISTIC CRUELTY IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN A CIVILIZED SOCIETY IN THE 21ST. CENTURY!!!
Let’s keep at this until all the horrific, cruel, unconscionable farms are SHUT DOWN and REMAIN shut on a permanent basis.
Thank the Good Lord and EVERYONE shunning this barbaric practice and making harder and harder for these torturous SOB’s to do what they do! We must keep the pressure on this horribly barbaric industry! This is at least a bit of good news swimming in a sea of bad! Hopefully this will at least start to save some of these poor animals from the torture and horrible murders so many have faced before them. If this eventually gets stopped they will have not perished in vain.
Another tiny paw-step forward.
Sounds like a little progress, but the entire country of China should stop this barbaric, cruel & unnecessary practice immediately. However, it would take a HUMAN BEING to have empathy & a conscience. Why do the Chinese seem to eat anything? Their brains are different–perhaps all the dog & cat meat. No respect for sentient creatures. I hope these murdered dogs & cats are in heaven being loved by angel; and I hope the Chinese murderers will rot in hell one day.
It’s evil to eat the domestic animals!
you should google factory farms and find out what cows and pigs, chickens and turkeys endure.
This is despicable torture for these dogs! It should be banned completely throughout China. It’s about time they got with the times. I would never visit any Far East Asian country.
THIS HAPPENS TO CATS, TOO.
I would never travel to ANY COUNTRY where they ate dogs and cats, including the Korea, (Olympics,) Vietnam, CHINA, etc.
I want to hurt China do bad # i wish i COULD BLOW CHINA Up ! Thry are Evil the DEVIL WALKING this EARTH it HURTS MY HURT SO Bad !
It is the worst trade ever known to occur, especially, in China. They have no respect for animal lives. Stealing pets from owners is cruel. Killing animals like dogs and cats, and selling them online is terrible. It is dangerous for animals and humans to consume having possible bacteria and unknown elements in the meat trade they’re selling. China needs to stop killing dogs and cats because we would rather see them alive than killed for products we don’t want on the market.
Alpina Chilton
i hate china and the majority of chinese, tho i used to have a chinese american bf. just read they are killing donkeys in africa for so called trad chinese medicine! this is bullshit, and the chinese govt shd condemn superstitions amongst the population, and westerners SHOULD STOP TOUTING B.S. TREATMENTS AS GOOD JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ASIAN AND ‘TRADITIONAL”. this doesn’t make it right or cool! stick to PROVEN modern western medicine just as you would hopefully not use a ‘medicine’ from the west used in the llth c! being old and asian does NOT make it useful! educated chinese want to buy their foods and meds from the west where they know they won’t be contaminatedm and savvy western vets advise against buying ‘treats” for animals from china often contaminated. many stupid chinese will buy ANYTHING to ingest either for ”health’\ or to show they are rich as it is expensive like swallows” nests or shark fins. tell your friends to rethink their participation in these so called remedies. wd they feed their babies things used in the western middle ages as food or cures? and btw, people who follow the ‘so called miracle” raw diets thinking that’s what we used to eat and it was fine shd also think twice; humans have by far the biggest brains and can do by far the most because, unlike gorillas and apes, our closest relatives, as we learned how to cook and eat all kinds of foods, some of which are toxic when raw, we no longer have to spend 80% of our time foraging to survive as they must do. notice i am not anti vegetarianism, you just have to pay more attn to gettin enough protein from legumes etc. but please stop blindly following these bastard chinese by blindly following whatever seems ‘\cool” or ”natural’; arsenic, dog flesh, hemlock, and radiation are all made by nature, so please think! and continue to hound the chinese to end the suffering of their own children with toxic formula and extreme air pollution and themselves and animals witth the flesh of sentient animals killed in horrendous ways! and please question whatever are fads and ask whether they might be wrong or might harm animals when there are better, modern ways!
This is is cause for hope for ending torture of animals in China and WORLDWIDE, including the U.S. where if you eat eggs, you are supporting the policy of shredding chicks, if you eat dairy you support letting calves die of starvation so we can steal their mothers milk, torture and murder of animals for their fur, pigs and cows their flesh, and elephants and tigers for entertainment in circuses.
i believe that you felt that way, but there are plenty of “nasty” people and places elsewhere. Maybe you’re one of them.
the good news is that if one eats eggs chickens don’t HAVE to suffer; i have 2 pet hens who have a great life and give eggs. they wd have been killed long ago in commerce. same w dairy cows; they wd be killed or never born but CAN be treated humanely, of course! what is NEVER defensible is killing sentient beings like pets and horses due to bizarre oudated toxic beliefs, esp when there is GREAT SUFFERING ALWAYS involved. always seek to do the least amount of harm, which not might not always seems what is ‘\obvious’; it is obvious that calves don’t have to die (!) and indeed it is in no one’s interest they die because we ‘steal” a cow’s milk; on it’s face that is obviously absurd. whom wd that serve??? do you think that farmer’s \steal’milk and push babies aside to shrivel and die? whom does that serve? pure economics, if you are thoughtful, shows that wd not be the case, even amongst bastards who mistreat animals. so learn to THINK people, choose your battles, and USE SCIENCE, or else be another trrump who will let the planet die of greenhouse gases as he does not believe in science and does not care to educate himself and is not a genius who can use logic; he is more like many of his suppurters who don’t believe in evolution! don’t follow in his ignorant footsteps! if you choose not to drink milk or …hmmm, animal shit for organic fertiliser (and use it for what, instead?? to collect disease, left unused??) that is your choice, but please use sciende and logic, or you are no better than trump and his group, or the asshole chinese abusers (and other abusers). plus you give them a reason to not listen to you. THINK, people, or the chinese and other asians, like the people of s. korea and indonesia and viet nam will continue to torture animals!
Great to know that there are plenty of sensitive people in China – not just dog and cat torturers and eaters. Let’s hope they come to the fore and stop these dreadful trades.
They should have kept the one child policy. There are too many Chinese.
China could stop this barbarism in a minute if they really wanted to but they don’t really want to. They are a backward, cruel and brutal race of people. I buy NOTHING that is made in China and I mean NOTHING.
Let me get hold of these Chinese dog meat traders and they will be dog meat. Pure ASSHOLES!
totally agree steve ill help you!!!!!
Steve,I agree 100%.We need to band together globally and exterminate these filth-bag animal murdering POS.
It’s about time CHINA stops this dastardly taste for dog meat.
Its a good start but let’s hope the news spreads fast & dog & cat meat ends forever.
its a good news. lets educate the people and boycott the meat of dog and kitten
Its good news but still a heck of a long way to go. All retailers would have to follow suit? It’s so gut wrenching knowing that so many dogs and cats are butchered that way. I have my dog sitting beside me and it breaks my heart just thinking about what these poor animals are going through. I surely hope there are more compassionate people in this world then cruel and evil ones.
That’s good news for a change still got long way to go as still seeing animals tortured and killed disgusting country
Yessssssssssssssssss je suis content pour les chiens et chats il était temps avec tout mes comentaire
et tous les animaux toujours abondones en france, surtout en ete ? et les pauvres oies et canards a noel etc? et les cheveux transportes de l’europe de lést? moi, jái deja 4 chats abondones et 2 chiens…
Thank God for that lets hope we’re nearing an end to all counties who support this barbaric trade. I hope 1 day this will truly be a thing of the past for all you beautiful dog’s and cats.
Thank God that some of their big companies are doing their bit and not selling dog and cat meat. I hope that the Yulin Dog Festival will not go ahead this year but I fear it will.
Hoping this year we will see many changes for the better regarding atrocities to all animals.
Do not believe this, they will find some way around this, its all about the almighty $, as a nation they could not give a rats arse about any animal.
I pray you are wrong, but fear you are correct in your statement.
Thank goodness someone has finally woken up & taken action lets hope others follow Pin Duo Duo & do the right thing.
thank you for not ignoring the suffering of cats. so many organizations.. like HSI and HSUS and ASPCA are willing to throw them under the bus just to save dogs.
Eulalie, apparently cat meat is being banned too. Hopefully.
Thank God!
Are they going to remove cat meat, too?
They also suffer and are saughtered for their meat.
Eulalie this one actually includes cats if you can believe it! I spend a lot of time letting people know that cats are abused and eaten, too. a local paper ran an article about the dog meat trade. not one shelter.. not even the ASPCA told him that they do this to cats. with all the research he did on the subject he had NO idea that they ate cats, too. I don’t donate to any charity unless it is a cat only charity or cat only shelter. it’s the only way you can be sure your money helps cats.
p.s. thank you for caring about cats. (-: