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Police in China say they’ve rescued greater than 1,000 cats about to be slaughtered and bought as pork within the metropolis of Zhangjiagang. The whole clowder was packed right into a single truck, in line with experiences, and authorities have been tipped off by animal rights activists.
Cat meat can fetch 4.5 yuan ($0.61; £0.51) per catty, a unit of measure in China that’s roughly equal to 600g, activists stated. One cat can yield 4 to 5 catties.
It was unclear if the rescued cats have been strays or pets. They have been in transit to the nation’s south the place they have been to be served up as pork and lamb skewers and sausages.
A what now? Catty [wikipedia]
There’s evidently a normal meals provenance downside in China, a soupçon of dismay within the soup of a recently-developed nation.
“May these folks die a horrible dying,” stated one Weibo person. Another stated: “When will there be legal guidelines to guard animals? Don’t the lives of cats and dogs matter?” One person stated: “I will not be consuming barbeque meat outdoors anymore.”
In June, uproar resulted at a university within the province of Jiangsu, when a scholar found a rat’s head in his meal. School authorities initially tried to say that it was duck meat earlier than admitting that the coed was proper.
