Posted on 02/27/2020 6:12:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen wants local restaurants to take dogs and cats off their menus as the country clamps down on the wildlife trade scientists suspect led to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters reports a new city regulation states only nine meats that are permitted for consumption, including pork, chicken, beef and rabbit, as well as fish and seafood.
“Banning the consumption of wild animals is a common practice in developed countries and is a universal requirement of modern civilization,” the notice said.
Apart from dogs, the new Shenzhen act bars snake, frog and turtle meat from the dinner table.
A ban on eating dog and cat meat in Shenzhen would be “extremely welcome,” said Peter Li, China policy expert for Humane Society International, an animal welfare group.
“Although the trade in Shenzhen is fairly small compared with the rest of [Guangdong] province, Shenzhen is still a huge city and is larger than Wuhan, so this would be very significant and could even have a domino effect with other cities following.”
The public will have until Thursday to respond to the draft proposal, according to Reuters.
The annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival is one of the most controversial food festivals in China and sees thousands of dogs cruelly killed, skinned and cooked with blow-torches before being eaten by the locals, as Breitbart News has reported.
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Well at least the dogs and cats benefit from all this, they get to live..geez, they eat cats???
Let’s just file that under ‘Sht that should’ve happened 50 years ago.’
RIP the ones who have been and will be thrown from apartment high rises.
They cruelly skin and kill all the animals they eat over there. My pets and everyone elses favorite pets here, dogs and cats.
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That isn’t necessarily true, they won’t be eaten.
They are still worried that since this is zoonotic, that it could mean killing animals they suspect might have coronavirus.
“How to Wok Your Dog”
Really?
what about bats?
BASTARDS!
How long, O, Lord?
You’ve got to be the lowest scum on earth or evil to eat the stuff those people eat. Now you know why there’s kosher food.
Wait?!? This isn’t the Babylon Bee? LMAO! Talk about reinforcing stereotypes.
“Was that a Bat? .. Chicken Of The Cave.”
yuck
Damn, I can’t even imagine why someone would come up with the idea to prepare and consume that.
The problem isn’t just what they eat.
The problem is they have no Humanity when they Slaughter Animals for Consumption. They torture the Animals to death because they think in enhances the taste of the Meat.
who eats pets? What a wet dream of a culture
None from column “A” and None from column “B” either I guess.
It will just be a temporary paws in the menu items.
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