China Cat Holocaust

May 3, 2008


An ever-increasingly prosperous nation, China is so large it can barely address the issues of human rights in a meaningful way. So it’s not surprising that animal rights is merely a term that do not have much meaning either. A country that adopts child labor practices, neglects the poor and disenfranchised, oppresses the Tibetans, consumes companion animals, cuts off fins from sharks and throws them back in the ocean to drown, how can we expect anything less?

With the Olympics coming, Beijing is getting ready–cleaning up the streets, beautifying the city, demonstrating its industrial power to the world. But one act in particular is outright barbaric– the killings of cats. This is two-fold: 1) the government uses scare tactics by terrifying its citizens that cats carry diseases, into surrendering the animals; and 2) use the Olympics as an excuse to clean up the streets by exterminating them. China has once did this with dogs for fear of rabies and SARS, and the way in which they destroy these poor animals are cruel and disgusting.

Without the cats, mice and rats will increase by numbers, and the chances of the rodents carrying and transmitting diseases will be even more detrimental.

Right now as we speak, cats are rounded up by the thousands into large crates and trucked off to what animal welfare groups describe as extermination camps on the edges of the city. The estimated number of extermination will be in the half a million, just over a year after the Chinese were criticized for beating and killing stray dogs across the country and selling them for aphrodisiac effects in their meat. The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that these cats go to the camps, if not destroyed right away, are trapped and crammed into cages and waiting to die slow, agonizing deaths. Let’s just call this Beijing’s own cat holocaust.

I’m Chinese, and I am ashamed of my country and not only because of the cats, obviously. I will never visit there until something changes for the better. Look at the picture above, how does it not break your heart completely? Please help by spreading the word of this atrocity.

18 Responses to “China Cat Holocaust”

  1. ksawyer215 Says:

    How awful for these poor cats. China really needs to get its act together. Great post
    Ksawyer215

  2. haj Says:

    very thoughtful commentary. It really is a sad situation. I hope this gets more exposure in the main stream press. Forwarded to a few people.

  3. Rex Says:

    So tragic. They never fail to surprise me with human/animal right issues.

  4. Reenergize Says:

    Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

    cheers, Reenergize.

  5. Jenny Says:

    Thank you. I’m not sure what point was missing though. The point is, it is cruel to exterminate animals, especially companion animals under false pretenses for the sake of the Olympics, or for any other matter. China is notorious for such practices, they don’t even have great human rights, so it’s not surprising that animals have none either.

  6. Josh Says:

    if you surch this on youtube you can really see the extent of what happens.

  7. Jenny Says:

    i don’t think i want to see it. We all know how awful it is. Can’t stomach it.

  8. Aleenau Says:

    Care to quote your sources Jenny? And please, for Pete’s sake don’t tell us it’s from PETA.

  9. Jenny Says:

    Peta is hardly ever the source of my posts. This particular one of Beijing’s Cat Death Camp is a story from The Daily Mail.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-528694/Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html

  10. george Says:

    fuck you barbarians!

  11. jenna Says:

    anyways china i hate u..why do u eat cats….and dogs thats wrong

  12. michaela Says:

    thats not normal. how could someone kill something as cute and cuddly as a cat? its like eating a guinea pig!

  13. Alexandria Says:

    omg…poor cat’s. I can’t beleive someone would do that…. :(

  14. Dontwanttoknow Says:

    That is terrible. What jerks they are! Cats have mroe right then that. Anywhere. If China is so powerful and smart and have loads of money, instead of putting these cats in DeathCamps and killing them, why don’t they put that money to good sue and care for the cats, spay or nueter them so they don’t reproduce (thats a good idea, ever think of that? Nope, didn’t think so.) and put them in shelters for people who actually give a damn about cats adopt them. So there you go. Brilliant idea for you suckers!

  15. Craptokker Says:

    All of you are hypocrites, unless you’re 100% vegetarian! What’s the difference between eating beef and cat? Cows aren’t as intelligent, aren’t as cute? Can’t be domesticated? The bottom line is, make sure you’re not guilty of eating meat, because then you’re just as cruel as these people, you’re cruel as the next guy. Meat is meat, and it doesn’t matter what animal it comes from!

  16. Jenny Says:

    First of all, livestock farming is just as cruel and the practice of that needs to change and is changing. Secondly, meat is meat, then by saying that you are saying we should eat people too. The fact is, if you read the article carefully, it’s the WAY these animals are treated on the way to slaughter that is unacceptable. Cats, dogs, cows, pigs,in that regard suffer the same unnecessary cruelty. If you’ve ever owned a dog or cat, which you probably haven’t and don’t care to, you would understand the outrage that millions of people in modern countries feel against such a matter. If you have any compassion at all, this would bother you. I am a carnivore, but I eat organically. I am on my way to becoming a vegetarian, however, if I am to consume meat, I want to do it as humanely as possible. So there.

  17. Samantha Says:

    WTF EAT CHICKEN LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE YOU SICK FUCKS!

  18. Samantha Says:

    WTF EAT CHICKEN LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE YOU SICK FUCKS!!!!


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