Activist: "Some will do anything for money"
The police crackdown on a transport of cats headed for slaughter in China has given new life to the discussion about animal rights and food safety, according to CNN.
There are laws in China that protect livestock and endangered species, but protection against cruelty to domestic animals and stray dogs and cats is poorer.
- Some people do anything just to make money, says animal rights activist Gong Juan, who is building a home for street cats in the city of Jiangsu.
The police suspect that the cat meat would be sold under the pretense that it was pork or mutton. Several past food scandals in China have gained attention in recent years. One of the most recent was when a picture of a suspected rat's head in a school meal went viral.
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1,000 cats saved from being sold as meat skewers
Police in China have rescued 1,000 cats from a truck on its way to slaughter. That's what CNN writes. The plan was likely for the slaughtered animals to be transported south and mistakenly sold as pork or mutton skewers.
Now the cats have had to move into a nearby animal shelter instead.
According to state newspaper The Paper, police in Zhangjiagang in the western province of Jiangsu acted on a tip from animal rights activists.
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