China, the police rescue 1000 cats en route to the slaughterhouse
Police in Zhangjiagang, China’s Jiangsu province, have a truck with approximately 1000 cats headed for the slaughterhouse was blocked. The value of the felines amounted to approximately 20 thousand dollars, figures that would have fueled the illegal market of dogs and cats which are passed off to restaurants as pork or mutton upon resale. The Chinese newspaper The Paper spread the news, showing the details of the operation and photos of the many cats brought to safety; many of which are purebred specimens, taken from their families as happens during the abominable Yulin festival.
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According to GreenMe, there were some animal rights activists in the area raised the alarm after noticing a truck that had been stopped for days with several wooden crates. Many different cats were crowded inside. The animal rights activists would have thus reported the situation to the police, allowing the police to shed light on the food fraud and defeat the cat traffickers. At the conclusion of the preliminary investigations, the cats were temporarily transferred to a shelter. Each of them was placed in a larger carrier to be subjected to a veterinary examination and fed by the volunteers.
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By virtue of the black (and profitable) market that has developed in the country, Chinese animal rights organizations strongly recommend volunteers to sterilize street cats and families not to keep owners’ cats free in the garden. Him too residents of Zhangjiagang said they were very alarmed about their health and the associated risks. Although the population asks the authorities for stricter food safety controls, the definitive solution is a ban on dog and cat meat.
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