Within the belly of a Beijing workshop, police recently discovered 34 dogs huddled in cages awaiting their fate as a part of China’s underground dog meat trade. Just days before the bust, many of these dogs were living alongside their human companions as beloved family pets.
News about missing family pets that we later found not to be runaways, but instead captives of gang members, is tragically common within the country. Several gang members in this recent bust have been arrested admitting that they used hooks and nets in order to quickly abduct dogs from area neighborhoods.
Upon arriving at the gang’s makeshift kennel, the dogs were sorted into “luxury” and “ordinary” breeds. Often, dogs deemed as more valuable are sold at higher prices to factories that perform processing of their meat and fur, while more common breeds are killed within the confines of the kennel and sold to food vendors and restaurants.
As with past crackdowns on sites holding dogs for sorting, processing, and killing, many of the canines still possessed identification collars and microchips indicating the homes they were stolen from. Dogs rescued by police forces were sent to a local shelter where local animal welfare groups cared for the animals and worked to reunite them with their families.
An Xiang, a lawyer familiar with the dog meat trade, assures that every link in the illegal meat trade chain breaks Chinese law – from food safety to social stability.
Despite the efforts of activists, the dog meat trade continues to endanger the lives of both dogs and cats, as well as both pets and China’s stray animal population. Please consider signing a petition via Lady Freethinker that urges an immediate end to dog and cat meat trade across the globe.
Thank you for saving these dogs. There should be severe penalties for such offenses and the police should arrest such cruel people.
I agree with all these comments. This should be outlawed. There are other things to eat besides dogs.
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Que gente mas osoleta como pueden comer perros es lo ultimo que puede hacer el ser humano si se les puede decir asi mas bien son bestias que no tiene respecto
STOP BARBARIE
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Scum of the Earth!
I believe that dogs shouldn’t suffer and die for the trade in their meat. I support an end to the dog meat trade throughout Asia, and urge the governments of all countries where the trade in dog meat exists to work diligently and quickly towards eradicating this cruel and unnecessary practice.
I know that is very disturbing but we cannot watch torture happen to the innocent and defenseless and do nothing!
We were never given hearts and minds to think about the cat and dog meat trade, well they are not hurting me so I will look away and let it go on!We are better than this. It is our duty to do everything we can to stop this atrocity and genocides ASAP!!!
Horrible. Needs to be stopped.
punish and shut down these monsters!!no more dog meat!!!
DOGS MUST BE SAVED FROM MEAT FESTIVALS AND FROM SLAUGHTER. POLICE MUST O ALSO THE RIGHT THING. IT IS TOO CRUEL. RITA FROM BELGIUM.
Thank God these animals were found!!!! GOOD JOB
Thank God for once the police intervened & seemed to be on side for helping the poor dogs…
Wonderfull news.
Those stinking animals (or should I rephrase “sub-humans) – someone should sell THEM, but then again who would want them!!? No compassion for the pets or their owners.
Thank God these dog were recused before it was to late, I hope they are all reunited with there owners and any stays have found loving homes.
As for scum who stole them let them rot in hell.
Why are we expected to treat this sick race as our equal.I never will.
This vile race and other races who indulge in this heinous practice should have DIED OUT years ago.
Thirty years ago my family lived in the outskirts of Hong Kong, where the elderly ladies used to put dogs in hessian bags, tie them up then bash them to death!!!! Its a long standing tradition (the black dogs taste better so it goes) so only by education are we going to change the way people think. This may have started when meat was hard to get, however that is not the case now, so it should be outlawed in the strongest possible way.
Awful.
It’s never going to end..God help these poor animals.
Sick freaks sucking down innocent beings.