14 DAY TRIAL // For a cat lover this may be the most heart-breaking news received lately as 2,800 cats were marked for human consumption in China and transported to their death in appalling conditions. The poor felines were packed in wooden cages, in a truck while taken to their final destination in Guangxi Province.
But so many adorable felines couldn't just end up as specialties in Chinese restaurants and Wuhan activists pursued and detained the truck carrying the animals, managing to stop the dreadful event. The cats were taken to Nanning in Guangxi Province to be slaughtered and butchered and then turned into meals.
Even if in some areas of China this kind of appalling activity is accepted and encouraged by Chinese citizens, many have contested it and declared it a horrible attack to animal rights. Certain volunteering associations have struggled with the animal killing and tried to avoid it as much as possible.
The animal welfare activists spotted the truck carrying the felines to their horrible death and blocked its path until authorities intervened. When officers requested papers to prove the legality of the transport, the truck driver conveniently claimed that he had forgotten the documents, notes Rocket News.
The cargo was sent back to Wuhan in order to have the animals quarantined and tested for diseases, but the following process was left unclear. Hopefully, the efforts of the volunteers weren't in vain and the poor felines were spared from a terrible death.
Cats are known to be consumed by people in China, and because eating kittens is considered to bring bad luck, they are allowed to grow for almost 12 months before being transformed into meals. They are held in cages in markets or restaurants and customers are allowed to hand pick the feline they want to indulge with.
Animals Asia Foundation has been trying to prevent events that involved the slaughter of animals and is currently struggling to at least slow down the demand, if not stop it definitely. Because cats are seen as local delicacies and are featured in restaurant menus in several places in China, this is a very hard goal to accomplish, but will small actions they may at least get closer to their objective.