three tons of cats buried alive

[DrLeftover]

4 Feb

Vietnamese authorities have buried thousands of seized cats – many believed to have been alive at the time – that were smuggled from China to feed the illegal cat meat trade.

A truck carrying three tons of live cats crammed into bamboo crates was impounded in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Tuesday. On Wednesday a police officer said they had been buried in accordance with Vietnamese law on smuggled goods.

“The cats were from China, with no official origin papers and no quarantine,” said the policeman from the Dong Da district environmental police. “Several of them had died, there was a terrible smell that could affect the environment and carried risks of future diseases. Therefore, we culled them by burying them.” He declined to say how many were alive at the time of burial.

Other smuggled animals, including chickens, are routinely disposed of in a similar way.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/smuggled-cats-buried-alive-vietnam

 

[wirelessguru1]

 

[Jazzy]

OMG, those poor cats!

 

[MrDawn]

wow!

 

[beowulf]

fucking savages

 

[+paradox]

fucking savages

not really...

of course it's sad, but they had to do that, like with any other animal that they come across in that way due to disease control and health reasons...

 

[Nebulous]

Who would want to eat a cat anyway?

 

[+paradox]

Who would want to eat a cat anyway?

humans, just like how humans in a few sad instances would want to eat other humans...

 

[Nebulous]

Let me rephrase, I would never want to eat a cat...

 

[+paradox]

Let me rephrase, I would never want to eat a cat...

me too...

 

[MrDawn]

Let me rephrase, I would never want to eat a cat...

You might have accidentally whilst eating at a local Chinese restaurant.