Reproduced from Uk newspaper – Daily Mail.
Truck full of dogs crammed into tiny cages and bound for Chinese restaurants is intercepted by animal lovers
By David Gerges
Crammed into tiny cages, unable to stand and deprived of food and water, these dogs endured terrible suffering on a truck bound for a chain of restaurants.
The harrowing pictures show the cruel conditions in which 1,500 of the animals were found when the truck was stopped at a toll gate by highway police and animal rescue volunteers in Chongqing, south-west China.
The truck was stacked high with cages, each containing several dogs in pitiful condition.
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The animals were moved to a nearby farm by volunteers from the Chongqing Animal Protection Association who gave them food, water and emergency treatment. Sadly some of the dogs were already dead and rescue workers were unable to save other who were dying.
Volunteer Xiao Lu said: ‘When they [the dogs] saw us they were groaning, but some were so exhausted and dying that they didn’t even have the strength to make a sound.’
He said: ‘The dog peddler said his truck was only loaded with 700 dogs, but there are at least 1500.’
Dog continues to be a popular meal in the Far East, with many in China favouring the meat, particularly during the winter.
The incident comes just months after police in Thailand rescued more than 1,000 dogs that were being transported to Vietnam.
The dogs were being taken across the Mekong river in Laos as prices for stray dogs and pets in rural Thai villages can reach as much as $33 an animal.
11 COUNTRIES WHICH STILL EAT DOG MEAT
Eleven countries around the globe still eat dog meat. They are: China, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Polynesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Arctic and Antarctic and two cantons in Switzerland.
China: Although the Chinese were the first to domesticate the dog and keep them as pets, dog meat has been a source of food from at least the time of Confucius, and possibly even before.
Indonesia: Eating dog meat is usually associated with people from the Batak Toba culture, who cook a traditional dish named saksang that is like a dog-meat stew.
Mexico: Dogs were historically bred for their meat by the Aztecs. These dogs were called itzcuintlis, and were often pictured on pre-Columbian Mexican pottery.
Philippines: In the capital city of Manila,the law specifically prohibits the killing and selling of dogs for food except in certain circumstances including research and animal population control.
Polynesia: Dogs were historically eaten in Tahiti and other islands of Polynesia at the time of first European contact in 1769.
Taiwan: Dog meat in Taiwan is particularly eaten in the winter months, especially black dogs, which are believed to help retain body warmth.
Korea: Gaegogi literally means ‘dog meat’ in Korean. Gaegogi, however, is often mistaken as the term for Korean soup made from dog meat, bosintang. The distaste felt by dog lovers, particularly from the West, has made this dish very controversial.
Switzerland: According to a Swiss newspaper report in 1996, the Swiss rural cantons of Appenzell and St. Gallen are known to have had a tradition of eating dogs, curing dog meat into jerky and sausages, as well as using the lard for medicinal purposes.
Vietnam: Dog meat is eaten throughout Vietnam. To many Northerners, it is a popular, if relatively expensive, dinnertime restaurant meal.
Arctic and Antarctic: Dogs have historically been an emergency food source for various peoples in Siberia, Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland. Sled dogs are usually maintained for pulling sleds, but occasionally are eaten when no other food is available.
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l’humain est ignoble ! C’est la pire Pourriture que la nature a créé
Homo sapiens is frugivore species, has not enzymes for meat, milk, eggs .By using meat and other “animal products“ like a “food“ – homo sapiens just makes a profit to meat-farm “industry“ owners and because wrong feeding homo sapiens goes to be ill then also by this way homo sapiens makes a profit to pharmacology “industry“ owners and to “medizine“ and by this way homo sapiens causes own dieing by own wrong feeding- suicide and homo sapiens causes dieing to other humans by a hunger- hommicide, and homo sapiens causes the killing nonhuman animals – murderers.
Aren`t here too many Death by murderers and everything happend for some humans -slaveholders advantage?
Isn`t the time homo sapiens be much more smart ?
Homo sapiens needs only fruits ,fresh fruits with no thermic preparation ,are the food of homo sapiens – only fresh fruits are supstrat usefull for homo sapiens cells – because he has not enzymes for wrong food.That is why homo sapiens lives only 60-80 years and in many of these years he is ill, instead he lives healthy 120-140 years like before wneh he was real frugivore like deserves his species.
Homo sapiens – like all mammalias, – homo sapiens has enzymes for using own mother milk but only in first year of his own life . Adult mammalias need not a milk and have not an enzymes for using milk .
Homo sapiens has not enzyme uricase and even has not gene for uricase – that mean homo sapiens never was omnivore but always was and he is : frugivore species.
We must save our species and by that way we would save all living beings on the planet.
Slaveholders -profiters into our species, abuse our species by abusing all rests species and our own at the same time.
There is here to much Death – for slaveholders advantage.The victims are as human as nonhuman animals.
thank you good people for saving the dogs thank god for the great jobs that animal lovers do to help save all the animals
this is so sad,we are going to eat everything on this planet………..