Posted on 04/01/2020 8:38:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Shenzhen has passed a law prohibiting the consumption and production of dog and cat flesh, with the city's government pointing to the close relationship that has developed between humans and these animals
A Chinese city has banned the dog and cat meat trade amid the coronavirus crisis.
Shenzhen passed the law prohibiting the consumption and production of dog and cat flesh.
The city went further than the Government's temporary closure of 'wet markets', where animals are sold, by permanently stopping the brutal trade.
The Covid-19 outbreak is believed to have started at the a 'wet market' in Wuhan, China.
The law is set to come into effect on May 1, the Daily Star reports.
A spokesman for the city's government said: "Dogs and cats as pets have established a much closer relationship with humans than all other animals, and banning the consumption of dogs and cats and other pets is a common practice in developed countries and in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The legislation also clarifies with species are permitted to be consumed, including pig, cattle, sheep, rabbit, and chicken.
Dr Peter Li, China policy specialist for animal protection charity Humane Society International, welcomed the news.
He said: “With Shenzhen taking the historic decision to become mainland China’s first city to ban dog and cat meat consumption, this really could be a watershed moment in efforts to end this brutal trade that kills an estimated 10 million dogs and 4 million cats in China every year.
The majority of these companion animals are stolen from people’s back yards or snatched from the streets, and are spirited away on the backs of trucks to be beaten to death in slaughterhouses and restaurants across China.
"Shenzhen is China’s fifth-largest city so although the dog meat trade is fairly
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These people are sick.
Always wanted to see The Great Wall Around China
Ban it officially for Western media. Allow it and confiscate cameras, phones etc in real life. What a filthy backwards country. Nothing a little intense radiation therapy can’t handle.
F***ing savages...
what about bats?
So...... what about the bats?
What’s wrong with eating bats?
I’m starting to really dislike China.
How very....civilized...of them.
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The ChiComs are savages, Neanderthals, and Orcs.
I wonder if there are laws in the US that ban eating dogs and cats. I know there is for horses, but horse meat is exported from the US (pretty sure it’s legal too).
Gotta be BSC to eat a bat.
Snakes, lizards, mice, rats, guina pigs, woodchucks, beavers, bears, bats, etc.? Is a zoo still a smorgasbord?
Not everyone is a vegetarian.
Why? Some are appalled that you eat pork. Others over beef.
Dog and cat are not the culprits.
It is Bats and Pangolins that are the likely culprits IF the wet markets are indeed the source of the Wuhan Virus. And, not the Boi-Weapons Labs in that province.
I have eaten dog and cat in my many years of service to our country in order to fit into the cultures of certain countries.
Dogs and cats do not harbor highly contagious viruses. When harvested in accordance with the accepted practices of any other animal we eat they are perfectly safe to consume. Whether you agree with this or not.
Bats, Pangolins, and other exotic animals are a completely different issue. They host very many viruses and bacterias that are unsafe for humans.
But, ancient Chinese cultural superstitions are sacred to those people and they will not give up those practices under any circumstances.
Those traditions are in many cases thousands of years old. They will not give up on those ancient traditions willingly.
The video of a Chinese worker wiping medical masks on his filthy shoes was very illustrative. I couldn’t watch the other videos of infected Chinese here in the USA spreading the disease in public places.
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