Sir Paul McCartney has decided not to perform in China.
The famous singer boycotts the Asian country after he had seen an undercover footage taken in a fur market in Guangzhou, southern China.
Dogs and cats are shown being thrown from the top deck of a converted bus onto concrete pavements, while in another piece of footage, cats are seen squirming inside a sack before being thrown into a vat of boiling water, according to femalefirst.co.uk. Some are even senselessly beaten by laughing and smiling workers, who kill and skin the animals for their fur, even though many are believed still to be alive as their skins are peeled away.
The PETA screening outraged the singer who declared that the animals are treated in a barbaric way. The footage is to be shown on Monday night on the BBC's Six O'clock News.
"I wouldn't even dream of going over there to play, in the same way I wouldn't go to a country that supported apartheid", McCartney said.
"This is just disgusting. It's just against every rule of humanity. I couldn't go there. If they want to consider themselves a civilized nation they're going to have to stop this", the musician added.
McCartney claimed he is set to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics and asked people not to buy Chinese products anymore.
"How can the host nation of the Olympics be seen allowing animals to be treated in this terrible way?" Paul McCartney said.
"I've seen so much footage where these poor creatures are clearly alive when they're skinned. And for what? For fashion? It's sick. People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods",
Heather McCartney added.
According to a Chinese official, the boycott is unfair, putting the blame on the American and European consumers who ask for the fur.
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