I interrupt my regularly scheduled apocalyptic programming to report more good news out of China.
By a strong of luck, a truck carrying 600 cats fattened for slaughter crashed on route to the restaurant where they would be served as fleshy delicacies, regardless of the hideous and nauseating condition which they typically arrive in the long and torturous ride to Hell’s Kitchen. Unfortunately, and 100 feline victims died in the crash, some escaped to an indeterminate fate.
But experienced Chinese animal activists rushed to the scene to save hundreds of survivors, liberated them from the truck at their own response, and are caring for them until all can be adopted.
An activist reports that the response by compassionate Chinese citizens was swift and decisive. We can safely assume all surviving cats will be adopted and homed, and while some may remain round and fat, they will likely lead comfortable and content lives, experience experience human love rather than hate, and die of natural causes rather than being murdered, butchered, and stabbed with knives and forks before shoved down the pipes of human gluttony and indifference.
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RT News, January, 17, 2013
Cats being cared for after truck crash
Up to 600 plump white cats escaped death when the truck carrying them to be slaughtered crashed and they were rescued by animal rights activists in central China.
Volunteers hauled the cats from the overturned lorry in the central city of Changsha. Around one hundred felines, however, died in the accident while others escaped, says Xu Chenxin of the Changsha Small Animal Protection Association.
The cats, most of them plump and white, were heading to restaurants in the southern Guandong province, the China Daily reported.
“It was easy to tell they were meant to be eaten, from looking at the crates you could tell their owners didn’t care if they were alive or dead. When I arrived, the truck was piled high with more than 50 crates. The cats had travelled for days, without water or food, and the smell was dreadful” Xu told AFP on Monday.
The volunteer group which recued the felines negotiated with one of the trucks drivers to buy the animals for 10,000 yuan ($1,600) and they were now awaiting adoption.
“We’ve already had inquiries from families across Changsha,” said Xu.
Activists often come to the rescue of animals in China. In one of the biggest occasions they bought around 500 dogs intended for the dining table from a convoy of trucks on a highway in Beijing in 2011.
China does not have laws to protect non-endangered animals such as cats and dogs. Although cats are not commonly served up as dinner in Chinese restaurants, some establishments, especially in the south, will put cat on the menu.
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I hate how they treat animals in China and have no desire whatsoever to go there. Thank God that there are some carring citizens tho !!! Poor souls ….
You don’t have to go there b/c they are all coming HERE! BTW, R U A VEGETARIAN?
haha, uh, what? Vegetarian 30 years ago, went vegan 20 years ago, have 7 rescue cats and dont eat any of them if that is your next question
To start with, I wasn’t talking to you Steve. I am well aware of your history of Veganism. I am just fed up with those “animal rights” activists who are practicing CARNIVORES/MEATHEADS. To them it’s OK to feel sorry for cat’s and dogs, and CONSUME cows, sheep, and pigs, etc.. I am 35 years veggie, and around 8 years vegan. I haven’t been sick in 17 years, and I constantly blog about animal rights, and the health benefits of veganism. I have one character cat, and I am now experiencing the discrimination of having a pet trying to rent a place to live.
“I interrupt my regularly scheduled apocalyptic programming to report more good news out of China.” LOL, there is some progress in this war 🙂
A vegan diet is hard, I still need my occasional homeopathic doses of cheese.
Just mix in some high quality, meltable shredded vegan cheddar cheese in cooked macaroni noodles along with some (not too much) tofu sour cream, soy sauce, and top with black pepper and maybe some paprika or tabasco and you’ll get your cheese fix just fine. Try it, you’ll thank me I bet 😉
Cayenne pepper is much better for health than black pepper.
Thank you for the info!
Cow’s milk cheese is the bane to many… I’m sure you know it’s because of the addictive nature of casein that acts as an opiate. Like Dr. Best suggests… Plant based alternatives are available. My fix comes by way of nutritional yeast – So ugly sounding that many have started to call it “noosh”. It’s absolutely delicious! I sprinkle mine on most everything from salads to popcorn. You can also make a mean mac n’ cheese with it and substitute it for most any dairy cheese… It’s affordable and most are B12 fortified. Seriously yummy goodness! 😉
Super happy about the good news for these fur-balls. I hope they can live the rest of their lives with some kind of treasured feline-peace.
Thank you, I will try.
Wonderful mato48! Now in the interest of cooperation, fair play and alliance building — If there any special cause you have that this somewhat city-fied, peace-seeking vegan can contribute her efforts to – You make sure to let me know. Shine on! 😉
Don’t like to see people eating cats.
At the same time, uh what are the cats gonna eat? Probably either going to eat mice, or something that was loaded up in a truck and slaughtered.
My cat is experimenting with a taurine enriched vegan diet. That’s pretty rare though.
Its a protracted ad unsettled debate in the movement and I personally do not think all cats unlike dogs can thrive on a vegan diet, but you can mix it up half and half with vegan kibble, and anyway humans not cats are the largest and most destructive predators.
Steve, apparently all of Ann Wigmore’s cats and dogs were veggie. Go figger!
some good news like this, is always welcome,and brings a bit of balance…thank you!
Google Little Tyke, the veggie Lioness!