Zoosadism In China

Do you have a pet? Cat? Or a dog? This news will hurt you anyway.   Around 4 million cats are killed each year in China for various purposes, mainly for food. But cats are killed in brutal ways such as crushing their heads with sticks and hanging or starving them to death.

For one dish, the chef paralyzes the cat and then throws it into boiling water alive before skinning. Once diced the flesh is used to make soup.

In 2006, more than 50,000 dogs were killed in an anti-rabies campaign, during which police officers forced some owners to personally hang their dogs from a tree.

This Christmas, some anonymous Chinese web users launched a campaign encouraging people to slaughter 1,314 cats and upload photos of the dead animals online.

"Zoosadism is a term coined by Ernest Borneman referring to pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. " Wikipedia