Chinese netizens prevent 800-cat stir-fry

[mawilson 2,133]

Chinese animal lovers saved more than 800 cats from ending up on dinner plates

after answering an internet call to intercept a cargo of live feline delicacies,

Reuters reports.

Animal rights activist Huo Puyang posted a message online that her daughter had

stumbled across two trucks packed with cats in a Shanghai parking lot. While one

truck made good its escape, Huo called for an instant mobilisation to prevent the

remaining vehicle's cargo ending up in Huangdong, where some locals apparently

"pride themselves as gourmets who will eat anything that flies, crawls or swims".

Thirty activists duly answered the call, and Huo called in the cops who hauled driver

and truck to the police station. Huo recalled: "It was a cruel sight ... Pregnant cats

and kittens were packed into the boxes. Many cats had died and smelled. Some

were trampled to death. Others bit each other."

However, the police said there was no evidence to show the cats were stolen, and

suggested the moggie sympathisers cut a deal for their purchase. The truck driver

demanded 14 yuan (91 pence) a pop, but after "hours of haggling", the rescuers

stumped up over 10,000 yuan (650 quid, by our reckoning) for for a total 840 cats.

Huo is now making a further appeal - for cash to pay maintain her purchases. "We

have a difficult task. The cost of feeding them pales compared to medical fees,

vaccines and sterilisation," she admitted.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I heard that rat is pretty tasty.

[Artegal 1]

Its unfortunate that Chickens cannot Meow.

[Lance27 20]

Poor Kitty Cats

[Marilyn. 340]

[Dr_LHA 3]

Poor Kitty Cats

Why is it any worse to eat Cats than to eat Pigs, Chickens, Cows, Fish, etc though? The sort of treatment these cats were getting sounds similar to what baby cows get in veal crates for example.

[Mags 112]

Poor Kitty Cats

Why is it any worse to eat Cats than to eat Pigs, Chickens, Cows, Fish, etc though? The sort of treatment these cats were getting sounds similar to what baby cows get in veal crates for example.

Well, I don't eat veal either and am against that too.

[Artegal 1]

Poor Kitty Cats

Why is it any worse to eat Cats than to eat Pigs, Chickens, Cows, Fish, etc though? The sort of treatment these cats were getting sounds similar to what baby cows get in veal crates for example.

Its way worse to eat Cats, because the slaughter house has to kill them up to 9 times before they can be processed into fish sticks, hot dogs, bologna, or potted meat.

Edited July 11, 2007 by Artegal