Millions of domestic dogs and cats, plus rabbits, foxes, coyotes, mink, raccoons and other animals are suffering unconscionable treatment and agonizing death in China. World wide fur production is outsourced to China because of their low labor costs and there are no animal welfare laws for cats, dogs and captive wild animals there. Their fur being shipped world wide, unmarked and mislabeled; it’s even being sold as 'fake fur' or 'fun fur'. China is the largest fur distributor in the world and the government is profiting from a fur trade worth over seven billion dollars. Stores across the world are selling mislabeled fur from these dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals in China. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States alone. Current fur products on store shelves are from these same animals and range from purses to key chain accessories to collar accents to coats and more.
Dogs and cats for example, are being crushed into barbed wire cages for transport to slaughter; forced to lay on each other for days with no food or water. They are being removed with tongs, then stabbed in the groin, bludgeoned or bled to death. Videotape, photographs and witnesses reveal some animals continue to live after their skin has been stripped. Their mutilated bodies tossed aside on top of those who came just before them. Footage taken by undercover investigators touring fur farms in China reveal why outsiders are banned from visiting.
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing were sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. The round-up was particularly intense in areas around Olympic venues and in streets and alleys surrounding five-star hotels where guests stayed during the summer games. The crackdown on cats was seen by animal campaigners as just one of a number of extreme measures being taken by China's leaders to ensure that its capital appeared clean, green and welcoming during the Olympics.
WFLF maintains that the abolishment of animal cruelty should be a mainstream focus with regard to the association between crimes against animals and crimes against people. As stated by the National District Attorneys Association, “Animal cruelty can be linked to the vast majority of serial killers, many habitual violent offenders, and most children and teens who kill.”
The subject of animal cruelty together with the green movement has grown in popularity exponentially world wide, yet media coverage regarding the world’s largest animal atrocity remains dated and vastly uncovered. This barbaric treatment of animals goes against every rule of humanity.
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals." -Gandhi
