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Whilst some countries in
Asia such as Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan have
banned the practice of dog eating, evidence shows that
in China, the biggest dog eating country in the world,
it continues to thrive.
It is estimated that
upto 10 million dogs are slaughtered every year in
China, many deliberately slowly and cruelly in the
belief that "torture equals taste", whilst all suffer
the stress and pain of being farmed in concentrated
numbers before being killed in a variety of ways which
rarely ensures a quick and humane death.
Animals
Asia field investigators have witnessed trucks loaded
with anything upto 2,000 dogs per truck arriving at the
wholesale Hua Nam Wild Animal Market in Guangzhou. These
poor animals have spent 3 days and 3 nights, squashed
together in tiny cages, unable to move, without food,
water or shelter. The dogs are then brutally lifted by
the neck and hurled into a pen by a man wielding a metal
tongs. Here they fight through fear, hunger and
desperation to survive whilst awaiting a horrendously
slow death in order to provide meat for restaurants in
Guangzhou.
Diseases such as parvo virus, canine
distemper and leptospirosis are rife and spread like
wildfire in dogs whose immune systems are already low
due to depression and starvation. We often witness a
large number of dead and diseased dogs and cats which
have been pulled out of the cages and slung by the side.
The dog meat trade is becoming increasingly
industrialized and is even promoted by the government in
some provinces. Huge dog farms have been developed and
the importation of giant gentle breeds, like the St.
Bernard, which is cross bred with the local Chinese
mongrel to produce a fast growing, docile “meat dog”
that can be slaughtered at 4 months. Livestock sections
of large bookshops stock books and VCDs on dog farming
which promote horrific slaughter methods, in the
misguided belief that the more the dog suffers the
better the meat will taste. Consequently, vacuum packed
and canned dog meat are becoming increasingly available
in some supermarkets.
Investigations also reveal
that the fur from slaughtered dogs is now entering local
and international markets and being used as "trim" for
fashion items, or for trinkets such as keyrings and hair
accessories.
Animals Asia has examined arguments
ranging from those referring to culture, to those which
state that, as long as the animal does not suffer, then
eating dog meat is no different to eating the meat of
other domestically raised animals such as pork, chicken
and beef. However, we believe that to advocate humane
slaughter for dogs would legitimize the practice and
undermine the tireless and effective work of those Asian
countries that have recently outlawed the practice. Time
and time again, dogs across the world have proved their
unique qualities and how valuable they can be in
partnership with people. We believe that they should not
be part of the food chain.
The scale of the
cruelty is immense, but our recent survey on China’s
largest internet portal - Sina.com - had over 5,000
responses and showed that many Chinese people are
passionately against the idea of eating our “best
friends”.
Education is the key to ending their
misery and Animals Asia needs your help as we tackle the
problem with positive programmes like Doctor Dog and
brand new initiatives like the wide distribution of our
innovative inhouse film "Dr. Eddie: Friend or Food?" -
inspiring and compelling a reconsideration of attitudes
at a grass roots level.
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caged dogs await their fate
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Unloaded
outside a market in S.
China
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A
pitiful St Bernard-cross - a new fast growing meat
dog
Friend:
An AAF Dr. Dog at work!
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Special
sauce for making dog "hot
pot"
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*Dogs and Cats Skinned for Fur in
Shocking New PETA Investigation*
Today, PETA
released shocking footage from a recent
investigation into the Chinese dog and cat fur
industry, in which millions of dogs and cats are
bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled
with wire nooses so that their fur can be turned
into trim and trinkets. Their fur is often
mislabeled as that of other animals and exported
into the United States, the European Union, and
other countries, where it may be sold to
unsuspecting customers. Retailers such as J.Crew
purchase fur from China, supporting the
hideously cruel fur trade.
Check out the
investigation here.
http://cl.exct.net/?ffcc17-fe521774726c027a7d16-fe26157376610d78741c76-ff3516717066 |
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"Man's best friend" killed
for fur? No, it's not just a bad dream. PETA
recently conducted an undercover investigation
into the Chinese dog and cat fur trade to show you
what the industry is so desperate to hide. Even
our veteran investigators were horrified at what
they found: Millions of dogs and cats in China are
being bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and
strangled with wire nooses so that their fur can
be turned into trim and trinkets. This fur is
often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other
species and is exported to the United States to be
sold to unsuspecting customers in retail stores.
All of J.Crew's fur is
imported from China, which means that shopping
there potentially supports the hideously cruel dog
and cat fur industry. PETA has pleaded to meet
with J.Crew CEO Millard Drexler, begging him to
consider the plight of animals being tortured and
killed in unthinkable ways overseas; yet our
pleas, and the animals' cries, have met with
silence and inaction. The bottom line is, because
dog and cat fur is so often mislabeled, if you're
buying fur from J.Crew or from any other retailer,
there's no way to tell whose skin you're wearing.
Inside a Chinese Animal
Market
PETA went into an animal
market in Southern China and found cats and dogs
languishing in tiny cages, visibly exhausted. Some
had been on the road for days, transported in
flimsy wire-mesh cages with no food or water.
Twenty cats were forced into a single cage.
Because of the cross-country transport in such
deplorable conditions, our investigators saw dead
cats on top of the cages, dying cats and dogs
inside the cages, and dogs and cats with open
wounds. Some animals were lethargic or frightened,
and others were fighting with each other, driven
insane from confinement and
exposure.
Up to 8,000 animals are
loaded onto each truck, with cages stacked one on
top of the other. Cages containing live animals
are commonly tossed from the top of the trucks
onto the ground 10 feet below, shattering the legs
of the animals inside them. Many of the animals we
saw still had collars on, a sign that they were
someone's beloved companions, stolen to be made
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