Animal activists rescue cats and dogs destined for Chinese restaurants

[dixiegrrrrl]

I used to think it was only a bad joke....

Beijing (AFP) - Animal activists are combing a forest in eastern China for more than 1,000 kittens rescued from a meat supplier only to be let loose by local authorities, an organiser said Monday.
Animal protection volunteers and local police intercepted a truck "filled with cats" destined for dinner plates last week, said an activist surnamed Ni from the Wuxi Small Animal Protection Association in eastern Jiangsu province.

But local government officials released the felines -- some as young as four months old -- into a nearby mountain forest to fend for themselves, Ni said.

And

A convoy of trucks carrying some 500 dogs to be sold as meat was stopped by volunteers on a highway in Beijing in 2011 and the animals retrieved.

http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-set-1-000-cats-loose-forest-135335324.html

[Orrex]

1. I won't know how to feel about this until someone relates it to anti-pit bull bigotry

[KurtNYC]

2. meanwhile we euthanise 50 million dogs a year in the US

for being: too big, too rowdy, too loud, too expensive, not cute anymore, "got tired of it," landlord issues, can't afford medical care, "kids didn't take care of it like they said they would", etc, etc.

And we slaughter 59 billion chickens a year who have never lived in anything not resembling a giant indoor urinal (google "hock burns&quot .

Lot's of animal welfare issues to work on RIGHT HERE.

[get the red out]

3. I am glad they are doing this

Very glad.

[gopiscrap]

4. Good for them

[datasuspect]

5. four leg chicken

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Mt grandparents made passing remarks about ..."porch rabbit"

They raised 6 kids during the Depression.

[KamaAina]

7. ...