Animal activists rescue cats and dogs destined for Chinese restaurants [View all]

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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.

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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